The true-born Irishman : $b or, Irish fine lady : a comedy of two actsMacklin, Charles
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The true-born Irishman : $b or, Irish fine lady : a comedy of two acts
Macklin, Charles
Comedy plays; English drama -- Irish authors
_O’Dogh._ So, the toilet council is broke up at last--here she comes,
as fantastically fine, as a fine lady in a play. Ogho, what a head she
has.
_Enter Mrs._ Diggerty _and_ Mushroom.
_Mrs. Dig._ Brother, I am veestly glad to see you.
_Coun._ Welcome from England, sister.
_Mrs. Dig._ I am imminsely obligated to you, brother.
_Coun._ I hope it answered your expectation, sister.
_Mrs. Dig._ Transcendantly.
_Coun._ I am glad it pleased you.
_Mrs. Dig._ Ravishingly.
_Coun._ Indeed!
_Mrs. Dig._ Beyond all degrees of compirison.
_O’Dogh._ O yes--beyond all degrees of compirison.
_Mrs. Dig._ Veest! imminse! extatic! I never knew life before--every
thing there is high, tip top, the grand monde, the bun tun--and quite
teesty.
_O’Dogh._ O yes, every thing there is quite teesty, brother.
_Mrs. Dig._ Well, Count, do you know that you pleased me veestly last
night; I never saw you in such high humour--brother, I believe you do
not know Mr. Mushroom, an English gentleman; pray let me have the honour
of introducing him to you.
_Coun._ I have had that honour already, sister.
_Mush._ Yes, madam, Hamilton and I are old acquaintance.
_O’Dogh._ O yes they are old acquaintance, they have known each other
above these two minutes.
_Coun._ Pray how do you like London, sister?
_Mrs. Dig._ O the place of the world, brother.
_Coun._ Then Dublin I suppose--
_Mrs. Dig._ O, dear brother, don’t neem them together.
_O’Dogh._ O no, you must not neem them together.
_Mrs. Dig._ Upon my honour, Dublin, after seeing London, looks like
Irish-Town or Ring’s-End: Oh, every thing I set my eyes on here gives me
the ennui, and the countre cure.
_O’Dogh._ O yes, every thing here gives her the contre cœur; that is a
disease she has brought over with her from London that we know nothing
of here.
_Mrs. Dig._ The streets are so narrow, the houses so dirty, and the
people so ridiculous! then the women, Count! ha, ha, ha!--I can’t help
laughing when I think of them. Well, I am convinced that the women of
this here country who have never travelled, have nothing of
that--a--a--non-chalance, and that jenny-see-quee that we have in
London.
_O’Dogh._ O no, brother! the women have nothing of that
jenny-see-quee, that she has brought over with her from London.
_Mrs. Dig._ But, Mushroom--I don’t know if what I am going to tell you
be conceit or real; but, upon my honour, when I first came from
England--you must know, brother, I came over in the picket.
_O’Dogh._ O yes, brother, she came over in the picket.
_Mrs. Dig._ Yes, sir, I came over in the picket, and we had a great
orage--I don’t believe, Mr. Diggerty, you know what an orage is.
_O’Dogh._ Indeed you may take your oath I don’t, my dear.
_Mrs. Dig._ That is, sir, because you have not been in foreign
parts--then I will tell you what an orage is--sir, an orage is a storum.
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