Plays, written by Sir John Vanbrugh, volume the firstVanbrugh, John
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Plays, written by Sir John Vanbrugh, volume the first
Vanbrugh, John
Comedy plays; English drama -- 18th century; English drama -- Restoration, 1660-1700
Don _Guz._ You have been drinking, you Rascal, you are drunk.
_Gal._ I have been drinking, Sir, 'tis true, but I am not drunk. Every
Man that is drunk, has been drinking, confess'd. But every Man that has
been drinking, is not drunk.----Confess that too.
Don _Guz._ Who is't has put you in this Condition, you Sot?
_Galin._ A very honest Fellow: Madam _Leonora_'s Coachman, nobody else.
I have been making a little debauch with Madam _Leonora_'s Coachman;
yes.
Don _Guz._ How came you to drink with him, Beast?
_Gal._ Only _per_ Complaisance, Sir. The Coachman was to be drunk upon
Madam's Wedding; and I being a Friend, was desired to take Part.
Don _Guz._ And so, you Villain, you can make yourself merry, with what
renders me miserable.
_Galin._ No, Sir, no; 'twas the Coachman was merry; I drank with Tears
in my Eyes. The remembrance of your Misfortunes made me so sad, so sad,
that every Cup I swallow'd was like a Cup of Poison to me.
Don _Guz._ Without doubt.
_Galin._ Yes; and to mortify myself upon melancholy Matters, I believe
I took down fifty; yes.
Don _Guz._ Go fetch some Lights, you drunken Sot, you.
_Galin._ I will, if I can find the [_Feeling for the Door and running
against it._] Door, that's so say----The Devil's in the Door; I think
'tis grown too little for me----Shrunk this wet Weather, I presume.
[_Ex. ~Galin~._
_Don ~Guzman~ alone._
Absence, the old Remedy for Love, must e'en be mine: to stay and brave
the Danger, were Presumption: Farewel _Valencia_, then, and farewel,
_Leonora_. And if thou can'st, my Heart, redeem thy Liberty, secure it
by a Farewel eternal to her Sex.
_Re-enter ~Galindo~ with a Candle, he falls, and puts
it out._
_Galin._ Here's light, Sir----So,----
Don _Guz._ Well done. You sottish [_Passing angrily into another
Chamber._] Rascal, come no more in my Sight.
[_Ex. Don ~Guz~._
_Galin._ These Boards are so uneven----You shall see now I shall
neither find [_Rising and feeling about for the Candle._] the
Candle----nor the Candlestick; It shan't be for want of searching,
however.
----O ho, have I got you? Enough, I'll look for your Companion
to-morrow.
_Enter Don ~Pedro~ and Don ~John~._
Don _Ped._ Where are we now?
Don _John._ We are in the Apartment I told you of----Softly----I hear
something stir----Ten to one but 'tis he.
_Galin._ Don't I hear, somewhat?----No----when one has Wine in one's
Head, one has such a bustle in one's Ears.
Don _Pedro._ [_To Don ~John~._] Who is that is talking to himself?
Don _John._ 'Tis his Servant, I know his Voice, keep still.
_Galin._ Well; since my Master has banished me his Sight, I'll redeem
by my Obedience, what I have lost by my Debauch. I'll go sleep twelve
Hours in some melancholy Hole where the Devil Shan't find me; yes.
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