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
[_Exeunt._
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+ACT+ III.
_Enter Lord ~Foppington~ and Servant._
_Lord Fop._ Hey, Fellow, let the Coach come to the Door.
_Serv._ Will your Lordship venture so soon to expose yourself to the
Weather?
_Lord Fop._ Sir, I will venture as soon as I can, to expose myself
to the Ladies: tho' give me my Cloke, however; for in that Side-bax,
what between the Air that comes in at the Door on one side, and the
intolerable Warmth of the Masks on t'other, a Man gets so many Heats
and Colds, 'twou'd destroy the Canstitution of a Harse.
_Ser._ [_Putting on his Cloke._] I wish your Lordship wou'd please
to keep House a little longer, I'm afraid your Honour does not well
consider your Wound.
_Lord Fop._ My Wound!----I wou'd not be in Eclipse another Day, tho' I
had as many Wounds in my Guts as I have had in my Heart.
_Enter ~Young Fashion~._
_Young Fash._ Brother, your Servant. How do you find yourself to-day?
_Lord Fop._ So well, that I have arder'd my Coach to the Door: So
there's no great Danger of Death this baut, _Tam_.
_Young Fash._ I'm very glad of it.
_Lord Fop._ _aside._] That I believe's a Lye. Pr'ythee, _Tam_, tell me
one thing: Did not your Heart cut a Caper up to your Mauth, when you
heard I was run thro' the Bady?
_Young Fash._ Why do you think it shou'd?
_Lord Fop._ Because I remember mine did so, when I heard my Father was
shat thro' the Head?
_Young Fash._ It then did very ill.
_Lord Fop._ Pr'ythee, why so?
_Young Fash._ Because he us'd you very well.
_Lord Fop._ Well?--naw strike me dumb, he starv'd me. He has let me
want a Thausand Women for want of a Thausand Paund.
_Young Fash._ Then he hindered you from making a great many ill
Bargains; for I think no Woman is worth Money, that will take Money.
_Lord Fop._ If I were a younger Brother, I shou'd think so too.
_Young Fash._ Why, is it possible you can value a Woman that's to be
bought?
_Lord Fop._ Pr'ythee, why not as well as a Pad-Nag?
_Young Fash._ Because a Woman has a Heart to dispose of; a Horse has
none.
_Lord Fop._ Look you, _Tam_, of all things that belang to a Woman, I
have an Aversion to her Heart; far when once a Woman has given you her
Heart----you can never get rid of the rest of her Bady.
_Young Fash._ This is strange Doctrine: But pray in your Amours how is
it with your own Heart?
_Lord Fop._ Why, my Heart in my Amours----is like----my Heart aut of
my Amours; _a la glace_. My Bady, _Tam_, is a Watch; and my Heart is
the Pendulum to it; whilst the Finger runs raund to every Hour in the
Circle, that still beats the same time.
_Young Fash._ Then you are seldom much in love?
_Lord Fop._ Never, Stap my Vitals.
_Young Fash._ Why then did you make all this Bustle about _Amanda_?
_Lord Fop._ Because she was a Woman of an insolent Virtue, and I
thought myself piqu'd in Honour to debauch her.
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