The City Bride (1696): Or, The Merry CuckoldHarris, Joseph
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The City Bride (1696): Or, The Merry Cuckold
Harris, Joseph
English drama
A Pox on't, here's my Son-in-Law come to hinder me, Duce take him cou'd
he not stay a little longer? D'ye hear Sir, begon, leave this Place
immediately, or I'le--I'le--I'le--Gad I cou'd find in my Heart, so I
cou'd, but be gone.
_Fri._ _Bonvile_ here with _Clara_ too, excellent. This goes to
_Arabella_, and may it encrease the Storm.
[_Exit_ Frie.
_Bon._ My Father in Anger.
_Mer._ O Son, Son, Son! dear Boy, welcome home, Od's bobs you are.
_Bon._ I humbly thank you, Sir; but am sorry to see you so disturb'd.
_Mer._ Nothing, nothing, only Mr. _Friendly_ and I have had a Word or
two, that's all, that's all.
_Bon._ About my going with him, I suppose; but that's past, and I hope,
Sir, you'l be so kind as at my Request to pardon him.
_Mer._ Indeed Son it was something else; By the Lord _Harry_ I can't
forbear laughing at the Coxcomb, Ha, ha, ha; He told me, Ha, ha, ha,
that one _Summerfield_, a very honest Fellow as ever liv'd, is grown
exceeding familiar with my Daughter, your Wife.
_Bon._ Ha! my Wife.
_Mer._ Yes, your Wife, and that he had received Love-Tokens from her.
_Bon._ How, Love-Token from her!
_Mer._ Aye, aye, Love-Tokens I call'd 'em when I was a young Man: Nay,
the Rogue was so impudent to tell me, that she had given him those
Jewels which are lock'd about her Neck; Ha, ha, ha.
_Bon._ The Jewels about her Neck, said you?
_Mer._. Aye, what ails you Man that you change Colour so? 'Tis all a Lie
Boy I warrant thee: And hadst thou not come just in the Nick of Time, I
think o' my Conscience I shou'd have cut his Throat.
_Bon._ As I will your Daughters if I find her false: Death, Hell, and
Furies, am I made a Monster already?
_Cla._ What, Sir, are you return'd for this?
_Mer._ Hark y' son, hark you; suppose that this Mr. _Friendly_ shou'd
have a secret Inclination to your spouse, d' ye see; and therefore, by
reason he can't obtain his Desire, possesses you with Jealousy to make a
Breach 'twixt you and your Wife. Od's bobs, I don't know, I can't tell
what shou'd be the meaning of his carrying you away on your Wedding-Day,
else, heh, Son, heh.
_Cla._ Has the Italian Plague then infected you, that you stand thus
unmov'd?
_Enter_ Summerfield _leading_ Arabella.
But see here's your Bride.
_Bon._ And her beloved Adulterer with her! Death and Damnation, must I
stand still and see this?
_Mer._ Hey day! what the Matter now?
_Ara._ _Bonvile_ here with _Clara_! Alas too true I find what before I
scarce dar'd to think was so. Is _Bonvile_ then a Traitor, and false to
_Arabella_?
[_Aside._
_Cla._ Madam, at last I've found the pretious Jewel that you so long
have sought in vain.
[To _Arab._
_Ara._ Wear it your self Madam, I lost it, and it must be mine no more.
_Cla._ What means this sudden Alteration?
_Mer._ Ods bodikins, as you say, what does she mean? Are ye both mad,
heh?
_Sum._ Sir, I'm come to pay my Respects to you, and humbly beg a farther
Knowledg of----.
_Bon._ Of whom, sweet Sir, my Wife or me?
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