English drama (Comedy); English drama -- 17th century
_Don._ Off, off, off with it, I say! Come, refuse the _ornamento_
principal of the Spanish habit! [_Takes him by the cravat, pulls it
off, and the_ Black _puts on the golilla._
_Mons._ Will you have no mercy, no pity? alas! alas! alas! Oh! I had
rather put on the English pillory, than that Spanish _golilla_, for
'twill be all a case I'm sure: for when I go abroad, I shall soon have
a crowd of boys about me, peppering me with rotten eggs and turnips.
_Hélas! hélas!_ [Don DIEGO _puts on the golilla._
_Don. Hélas_, again!
_Mons._ Alas! alas! alas!
_Hip._ I shall die! }
} Ha! ha! ha!
_Prue._ I shall burst! }
_Mons._ Ay! ay! you see what I am come to for your sake, cousin: and,
uncle, pray take notice how ridiculous I am grown to my cousin, that
loves me above all the world: she can no more forbear laughing at me, I
vow and swear, than if I were as arrant a Spaniard as yourself.
_Don._ Be a Spaniard like me, and ne'er think people laugh at you:
there was never a Spaniard that thought any one laughed at him. But
what! do you laugh at a _golilla_, baggage? Come, sirrah black, now
do you teach him to walk with the _verdadero gesto, gracia,_ and
_gravidad_ of a true Castilian.
_Mons._ Must I have my dancing-master too?--Come, little master, then,
lead on. [_The_ Black _struts about the stage,_ Monsieur _follows him,
imitating awkwardly all he does._
_Don. Malo! malo!_ with your hat on your poll, as it it hung upon a
pin!--the French and English wear their hats as if their horns would
not suffer 'em to come over their foreheads, _voto!_
_Mons._ 'Tis true, there are some well-bred gentlemen have so much
reverence for their peruke, that they would refuse to be grandees of
your Spain for fear of putting on their hats, I vow and swear!
_Don._ Come, black, teach him now to make a Spanish leg.[63]
_Mons._ Ha! ha! ha! your Spanish leg is an English courtesy, I vow and
swear, hah! hah! hah!
_Don._ Well, the hood does not make the monk; the ass was an ass still,
though he had the lion's skin on. This will be a light French fool, in
spite of the grave Spanish habit, look you.--But, black, do what you
can; make the most of him; walk him about.
_Prue._ Here are the people, sir, you sent to speak about provisions
for the wedding; and here are clothes brought home too, mistress.
[_Goes to the door and returns._
_Don._ Well, I come.--Black, do what you can with him; walk him about.
_Mons._ Indeed, uncle, if I were as you, I would not have the grave
Spanish habit so travestied: I shall disgrace it, and my little black
master too, I vow and swear.
_Don._ Learn, learn of him; improve yourself by him--and do you walk
him, walk him about soundly.--Come, sister, and daughter, I must have
your judgments, though I shall not need 'em, look you.--Walk him, see
you walk him. [_Exeunt_ Don DIEGO, HIPPOLITA, _and_ Mrs. CAUTION.
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