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Thomas Otway: The Best Plays of the Old Dramatists
Otway, Thomas
English drama -- 17th century; Otway, Thomas, 1652-1685
_Cour._ But when the business is over, then every parish bawd
that goes but to a conventicle twice a week, and pays but
scot and lot to the parish, shall roar out, "Faugh, ye lousy
red-coat rake-hells! hout, ye caterpillars, ye locusts of the
nation! you are the dogs that would enslave us all, plunder our
shops, and ravish our daughters, ye scoundrels!"
_Beau._ I must confess ravishing ought to be regulated; it
would destroy commerce, and many a good sober matron about this
town might lose the selling of her daughter's maidenhead, which
were a great grievance to the people, and a particular branch
of property lost. Fourbin!
_Four._ Your worship's pleasure?
_Beau._ Run, like a rogue as you are, and try to find Sir
Jolly, and desire him to meet me at the Blue-Posts in the
Haymarket about twelve; we'll dine together. [_Exit_ FOURBIN.]
I must inquire farther into yesterday's adventure; in the
mean time, Ned, here's half the prize, to be doing withal:
old friends must preserve correspondence; we have shared good
fortune together, and bad shall never part us.
_Cour._ Well, thou wilt certainly die in a ditch for this: hast
thou no more grace than to be a true friend? nay, to part with
thy money to thy friend? I grant you, a gentleman may swear and
lie for his friend, pimp for his friend, hang for his friend,
and so forth; but to part with ready money is the devil.
_Beau._ Stand aside; either I am mistaken, or yonder's Sir
Jolly coming: now, Courtine, will I show thee the flower of
knighthood. Ah, Sir Jolly!
_Enter_ Sir JOLLY JUMBLE.
_Sir Jol._ My hero! my darling! my Ganymede! how dost thou?
Strong! wanton! lusty! rampant! ha, ah, ah! She's thine, boy!
odd, she's thine; plump, soft, smooth, wanton! ha, ah, ah! Ah,
rogue! ah, rogue! here's shoulders! here's shape! there's a
foot and leg, here's a leg, here's a leg--Qua-a-a-a-a!
[_Squeaks like a cat, and tickles_
BEAUGARD's _legs_.
_Cour._ What an old goat's this!
_Sir Jol._ Child, child, child, who's that? a friend of thine,
a friend o' thine? A pretty fellow, odd, a very pretty fellow,
and a strong dog I'll warrant him. How dost do, dear heart?
pr'ythee let me kiss thee. I'll swear and vow I will kiss thee;
ha, ha, he, he, he, he, a toad, a toad, a toa-a-a-d!
_Cour._ Sir, I am your humble servant.
_Beau._ But the lady, Sir Jolly, the lady; how does the lady?
what says the lady, Sir Jolly?
_Sir Jol._ What says the lady! why, she says--she says--odd,
she has a delicate lip, such a lip, so red, so hard, so plump,
so blub; I fancy I am eating cherries every time I think
on't--and for her neck and breasts, and her--odd's life! I'll
say no more, not a word more; but I know, I know--
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