Plays, written by Sir John Vanbrugh, volume the secondVanbrugh, John
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Plays, written by Sir John Vanbrugh, volume the second
Vanbrugh, John
Comedy plays; English drama -- 18th century
Lady _Town._ What does he mean! I never heard such a word from him
in my life before! the Man always us'd to have manners in his worst
humours! there's something, that I don't see, at the bottom of all
this----but his head's always upon some impracticable scheme or other,
so I won't trouble mine any longer about him. Mr. _Manly_, your Servant.
_Enter ~Manly~._
_Man._ I ask pardon for my intrusion, Madam; but I hope my business
with my Lord will excuse it.
Lady _Town._ I believe you'll find him in the next room, Sir.
_Man._ Will you give me leave, Madam?
Lady _Town._ Sir----you have my leave, tho' you were a lady.
_Man._ [_Aside._] What a well bred age do we live in?
[_Exit ~Manly~._
_Enter Lady ~Grace~._
Lady _Town._ O! my dear Lady _Grace_! how could you leave me so
unmercifully alone all this while?
Lady _Grace._ I thought my Lord had been with you.
Lady _Town._ Why yes----and therefore I wanted your relief; for he has
been in such a fluster here----
Lady _Grace._ Bless me! for what?
Lady _Town._ Only our usual breakfast; we have each of us had our dish
of Matrimonial Comfort, this morning! we have been charming company!
Lady _Grace._ I am mighty glad of it! sure it must be a vast
happiness, when a Man and a Wife can give themselves the same turn of
conversation!
Lady _Town._ O! the prettiest thing in the world!
Lady _Grace._ Now I should be afraid, that where two people are every
day together so, they must often be in want of something to talk upon.
Lady _Town._ O my Dear, you are the most mistaken in the world! married
people have things to talk of, child, that never enter into the
imagination of others.----Why, here's my Lord and I now, we have not
been married above two short years, you know, and we have already eight
or ten things constantly in bank, that whenever we want company, we can
take up any one of them for two hours together, and the subject never
the flatter; nay, if we have occasion for it, it will be as fresh next
day too, as it was the first hour it entertain'd us.
Lady _Grace._ Certainly that must be vastly pretty.
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