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Lying Lover or The Ladies' Friendship - Richard Steele · A School for Greybeards; or, The Mourning Bride

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  Speaker 1: Act one of The Lying Lover or The Lady's Friendship
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  Speaker 1: by Richard Steele. This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox
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  Speaker 1: the volunteer, please visit LibriVox dot org. The Lying Lover
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  Speaker 1: or the Lady's Friendship haig Nos Salus s Adulescentulius Tertullian.
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  Speaker 1: The Lying Lover or the Lady's Friendship a comedy, was
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  Speaker 1: acted at Very Lane Theater on December two, seventeen o three,
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  Speaker 1: and ran for six nights. It was published by Bernard
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  Speaker 1: Linteaux on January twenty sixth, seventeen o four. Wilkes, Buckwick Junior, Mills, Lovemore, Sibber, Lateen, Pinkathman, Storm,
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  Speaker 1: and Bullock Charcoal, together with Missus Oldfield Victoria and Missus
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  Speaker 1: Rogers Penelope, acted in this piece, which, so far as
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  Speaker 1: is known, has been revived only once April fourth, seventeen
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  Speaker 1: forty six, since it was originally produced. The plot was
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  Speaker 1: taken from Lementeur by Corney, who had borrowed from Rui
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  Speaker 1: de Alarcon's Vedad Sospecosa. Steele is of course solely responsible
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  Speaker 1: for the scenes in Newgate towards the end of the piece.
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  Speaker 1: Samuel Foote afterwards made much use of Steele's play in
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  Speaker 1: his Lire to his Grace, the Duke of Ormond, My Lord,
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  Speaker 1: out of gratitude to the memorable and illustrious patron of
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  Speaker 1: my infancy, your Grace's grandfather, I presume to lay this
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  Speaker 1: comedy at your feet. The design of it is to
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  Speaker 1: banish out of conversation all entertainment which does not proceed
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  Speaker 1: from simplicity of mind, good nature, friendship and honor. Such
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  Speaker 1: a purpose will not, I hope, be unacceptable to so
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  Speaker 1: great a lover of mankind as your Grace, And if
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  Speaker 1: your patronage can recommend it to all who love and
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  Speaker 1: honor the Duke of Ormond, its reception will be as
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  Speaker 1: extensive as the world itself. Twas the irresistible force of
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  Speaker 1: this humanity in your temper that has carried you through
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  Speaker 1: the various successes of war, with the peculiar and undisputed
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  Speaker 1: distinction that you have drawn your sword without other motive
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  Speaker 1: than a passionate regard for the glory of your country,
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  Speaker 1: since before you entered into its service you were possessed
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  Speaker 1: of its highest honors, but could not be contented with
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  Speaker 1: the illustrious rank your birth gave you without repeating the
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  Speaker 1: glorious actions by which it was acquired. But there cannot
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  Speaker 1: be less expected from the son of an ossery than
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  Speaker 1: to contemn life to adorn it, and with munificence, affability,
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  Speaker 1: scorn of gain, and the passion for glory, to be
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  Speaker 1: the honor and example to the profession of arms, all
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  Speaker 1: which engaging qualities your noble family has exerted with so
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  Speaker 1: steadfast a loyalty that, in the most adverse fortune of
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  Speaker 1: our monarchy, popularity, which in others has been invidious, was
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  Speaker 1: a security to the crown when lodged in the House
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  Speaker 1: of Ormond. Thus your grace entered into the business of
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  Speaker 1: the world with so great an expectation that it seemed
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  Speaker 1: impossible there could be anything left which might still conduce
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  Speaker 1: to the honor of your name. But the most memorable
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  Speaker 1: advantage your country has gained this century was obtained under
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  Speaker 1: your command. And Providence thought fit to give the wealth
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  Speaker 1: of the Indies into his hands, who only could despise it.
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  Speaker 1: While with its superior generosity he knows no reward. But
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  Speaker 1: in opportunities of bestowing the great personage whom you succeed
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  Speaker 1: in your honors, made me feel before I was sensible
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  Speaker 1: of the benefit, that this glorious bent of mind is
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  Speaker 1: hereditary to you. I hope therefore you will pardon me
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  Speaker 1: that I take the liberty of expressing my veneration for
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  Speaker 1: his remains by assuring your grace that I am my Lord,
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  Speaker 1: your graces, most obedient and most devoted, humble servant, Richard
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  Speaker 1: Steele the preface. Though it ought to be the care
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  Speaker 1: of all governments that public representations should have nothing in
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  Speaker 1: them but what is agreeable to the manners, laws, religion,
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  Speaker 1: and policy of the place or nation in which they
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  Speaker 1: are exhibited. Yet it is the general complaint of the
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  Speaker 1: more learned and virtuous amongst us that the English stage
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  Speaker 1: has extremely offended in this kind. I thought, therefore it
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  Speaker 1: would be an honest ambition to attempt a comedy which
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  Speaker 1: might be no improper entertainment in a Christian commonwealth. In
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  Speaker 1: order to this the spark of display is introduced with
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  Speaker 1: as much agility and life as he brought with him
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  Speaker 1: from France, and as much humour as they could bestow
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  Speaker 1: upon him in England. But he used the advantages of
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  Speaker 1: a learned education a ready fancy and a liberal fortune,
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  Speaker 1: without the circumspection and good sense which should always attend
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  Speaker 1: to the pleasures of a gentleman, that is to say,
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  Speaker 1: a reasonable creature. Thus he makes false love, gets drunk,
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  Speaker 1: and kills his man, but in the fifth act awakes
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  Speaker 1: from his debauch with the compunction and remorse which is
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  Speaker 1: suitable to a man's finding himself in a jail for
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  Speaker 1: the death of his friend without his knowing why. The
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  Speaker 1: anguish he there expresses, and the mutual sorrow between an
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  Speaker 1: only child and a tender father in that distress, are
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  Speaker 1: perhaps an injury to the rules of comedy, but I
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  Speaker 1: am sure they are a justice to those of morality,
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  Speaker 1: and passages of such a nature being so frequently applauded
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  Speaker 1: on the stage, it is high time that we should
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  Speaker 1: no longer draw occasions of mirth from those images which
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  Speaker 1: the religion of our country tells us we ought to
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  Speaker 1: tremble at with horror. But her most excellent Majesty has
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  Speaker 1: taken the stage into her consideration, and we may hope
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  Speaker 1: by her gracious influence on the muses, which will recover
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  Speaker 1: from its apostasy, and that by being encouraged in the
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  Speaker 1: interests of virtue. It will strip vice of the gay
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  Speaker 1: habit in which it has too long appeared, and clothe
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  Speaker 1: it in its native dress of shame, contempt, and dishonor
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  Speaker 1: prologue all the commanding powers that all mankind are in
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  Speaker 1: a trembling poet's audience joined, where such bright galaxies of
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  Speaker 1: beauty sit, and at their feet assembled men of wit.
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  Speaker 1: Our author therefore owns his deep despair to entertain the
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  Speaker 1: learned or the fair, yet hopes that both will so
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  Speaker 1: much be his friends to pardon what he does. For
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  Speaker 1: what he intends. He aims to make the coming action
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  Speaker 1: move on the dread laws of friendship and of love.
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  Speaker 1: Sure then he'll find but very few severe, since theirs
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  Speaker 1: of both so many objects. Here he offers no gross
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  Speaker 1: vices to your sight. Those too much horror, race for
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  Speaker 1: just delight, and to detain the attentive, knowing ear pleasure
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  Speaker 1: must still have something that's severe. If then you find
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  Speaker 1: our author treads the stage with just regard to a
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  Speaker 1: reforming age, he hopes, he humbly hopes, you'll think there's
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  Speaker 1: due mercy to him for justice done to you. Dramatis
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  Speaker 1: persona old bookwitt read by Todd Young Bookwit, The Lying
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  Speaker 1: Lover read by Thomas Peter.
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  Speaker 2: Love More, In Love with Penelope read by Aaron.
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  Speaker 3: Wight Frederick Friend to Lovemore read by Major.
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  Speaker 4: Toast, latein Friend Young Bookwitt read by Lex Hankins.
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  Speaker 5: Storm the Highwayman read by Beth.
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  Speaker 6: Thomas Charcoal, An Alchemist and Coiner read by some of the.
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  Speaker 7: Exiles, Simon Servant to Penelope read by Allen Lapstone.
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  Speaker 8: Penelope read by Leanna Victoria, Friend to Penelope read by
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  Speaker 8: Campbell Shalp.
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  Speaker 9: Betty Victoria a Woman read by de Vora.
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  Speaker 10: Allen Lettice, penelopees Woman read by Sonia.
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  Speaker 11: Servant read by Lurie Wilson.
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  Speaker 5: Made read by Nicelia.
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  Speaker 11: Constable read by Larry Wilson.
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  Speaker 9: Watchman read by April six zero nine zero.
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  Speaker 12: First Prisoner read by Benny.
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  Speaker 1: Second Prisoner read by Sandra Schmidt.
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  Speaker 13: Turnkey read by Nima Jaylor read by Peter Strom. Chairman
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  Speaker 13: read by Nima.
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  Speaker 7: Mister Leverage, a professional singer read by Allan Lapstone.
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  Speaker 1: Stage directions read by Phone Scene London, The Lying Lover
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  Speaker 1: or the Lady's Friendship actually the first scene one, Saint
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  Speaker 1: James's Park, Enter, Young Buquet and lateen, But have.
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  Speaker 4: You utterly left Oxford for ever?
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  Speaker 12: Sir? For ever? My father has given me leave to
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  Speaker 12: come to town, and I don't question, but will let
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  Speaker 12: my return be in my own choice? But Jack, you
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  Speaker 12: know we were talking in Maudlin walks last week of
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  Speaker 12: the necessity an intrigues of a faithful yet a prating servant.
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  Speaker 12: We agreed therefore to cast lots who should be the
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  Speaker 12: other's footmen for the present expedition. Fortune that's always blind
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  Speaker 12: gave me the superiority.
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  Speaker 4: She shall be called no more so for that one action.
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  Speaker 4: And I am, sir, in a literal sense, your very
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  Speaker 4: humble servant.
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  Speaker 12: Begin then the duty of a useful valet, and flatter
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  Speaker 12: me egregiously? Has a fellow fit in me? How is
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  Speaker 12: my manner? My mien? Do I move freely? Have I
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  Speaker 12: kicked off the trammels of a gown? Or does not?
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  Speaker 12: The tail seems still tucked under my arm where my
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  Speaker 12: hat is with a perch jerk forward and a little
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  Speaker 12: hitch in my gait like a scholastic bow. This wig,
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  Speaker 12: I fear, looks like a cap.
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  Speaker 4: No faith, it looks like a cap and down too,
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  Speaker 4: though at the same time you look as if you
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  Speaker 4: never had worn either?
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  Speaker 12: But my sword does it hang careless? Do I look bold,
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  Speaker 12: negligent and erect? That is, do I look as if
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  Speaker 12: I could kill a man without being out of humor?
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  Speaker 12: I horridly mistrust myself? Am I military enough? In my air?
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  Speaker 12: I fancy people see I understand Greek? Don't I pour
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  Speaker 12: a little in my visage? Hadn't I a down bookish lour?
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  Speaker 12: A wise sadness? I don't look gay enough? And I'm
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  Speaker 12: thinking I.
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  Speaker 4: Fancy I protest you wrong yourself. You look very brisk
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  Speaker 4: and very ignorant.
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  Speaker 12: Oh fie, I am afraid you flatter me.
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  Speaker 4: I don't Indeed, I'll be hanged if my tutor would
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  Speaker 4: know either of us. But a good master to what
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  Speaker 4: use do you designed to put? The noble arts and sciences?
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  Speaker 4: He taught us The conduct of our lives, the government
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  Speaker 4: of our passions were his daily talk to us.
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  Speaker 12: Good Man, good Man, Why I'll obey his precepts, but
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  Speaker 12: abridgem For as he used to advise me, I'll contract
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  Speaker 12: my thoughts as I'll tell you Jack. For the passions,
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  Speaker 12: I'll turn them all into that one dear passion, love.
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  Speaker 12: And when that's the only torch of my heart. I'll
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  Speaker 12: give that tortured heart quite a way. Deny there's any
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  Speaker 12: such thing as pain, and turn stoic a shorter way
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  Speaker 12: than air. Thy tutor taught thee this is the new philosophy.
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  Speaker 4: You rogue you, But you would not, in earnest be
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  Speaker 4: thought wholly illiterate.
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  Speaker 12: No, For as when I walk, i'd have you know
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  Speaker 12: by my motion I can dance. So when I speak,
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  Speaker 12: i'd have you see I read it would or narrowly
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  Speaker 12: neither cut capers nor talk sentences. But you prayed as
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  Speaker 12: if I came to town to get an employment. No,
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  Speaker 12: hang business, hang care, Let it live and prosper among
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  Speaker 12: the men. I'll never go near the solemn, ugly things again.
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  Speaker 12: I'll keep company with none but ladies, bright ladies. Oh London, London,
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  Speaker 12: Oh woman, woman. I am come without livest, without shyest.
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  Speaker 2: Heyday.
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  Speaker 4: Why were there no women in Oxford?
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  Speaker 12: No? No? Why do you think a bed makers a woman?
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  Speaker 14: Yes?
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  Speaker 4: And I thought you knew it.
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  Speaker 12: No, No, it is no such thing as he that
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  Speaker 12: is not honest or brave is no man. So she
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  Speaker 12: that is not witty or fair is no woman. No
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  Speaker 12: no jack to come up to that high name and
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  Speaker 12: object of desire. She must be gay and chaste. She
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  Speaker 12: must at once attract and banish you. I don't know
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  Speaker 12: how to express myself. But a woman, methinks, is a
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  Speaker 12: being between us and angels. She has something in her that,
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  Speaker 12: at the same time gives awe and invitation. I swear
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  Speaker 12: to you I was never out in yet, but I
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  Speaker 12: always judged of men as I observed they judged of women.
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  Speaker 12: There's nothing shows a man so much as the object
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  Speaker 12: of his affections. But what do you stare at so considerately?
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  Speaker 4: Faith Sir? I am wondering at you. How tis possible
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  Speaker 4: you could be so jaunty a town spark in a moment,
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  Speaker 4: and have so easy a behavior. I look, methinks to you,
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  Speaker 4: as if I were really your footman.
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  Speaker 12: Why, if you're serious in what you say, I owe
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  Speaker 12: it wholly to the indulgence of an excellent father, in
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  Speaker 12: whose company I was always free and unconstrained. But what's
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  Speaker 12: this to ladies? Jack to ladies? I was going to
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  Speaker 12: tell you I had studied it and know how to
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  Speaker 12: make my approaches to him by contemplating their frame, their
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  Speaker 12: inmost temper. I don't ground my hopes on the scandalous
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  Speaker 12: tales and opinions your wild fellows have of him, fellows
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  Speaker 12: that are but mere bodies, machines which at best can
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  Speaker 12: but move gracefully. No, I draw my pretenses from philosophy,
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  Speaker 12: from nature.
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  Speaker 4: You'll give us by and by a lecture over your mistress.
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  Speaker 4: You can dissect her.
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  Speaker 12: That I can, indeed, and have so accurately observed on woman,
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  Speaker 12: that I can know her mind by her eye, as
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  Speaker 12: well as her doctor shall her health by her pulse.
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  Speaker 12: I can read approbation through a glance of disdain, can
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  Speaker 12: see when the soul is divided by a sparkling tear
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  Speaker 12: that twinkles and betrays the heart. The sparkling tears the
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  Speaker 12: dress and livery of love, of love made up of
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  Speaker 12: hope and fear, of joy and grief.
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  Speaker 4: But what have the worst to do with all this?
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  Speaker 4: Why must you needs commence souls all of a sudden, But.
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  Speaker 12: Not a taking compliment with my college face and phrase
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  Speaker 12: to accost a lady madam, I bring your ladyship alone
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  Speaker 12: at heart, one newly come from the university. If you
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  Speaker 12: want definitions, axioms, and arguments, I am an able schoolman.
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  Speaker 12: I've read Aristotle twice over compared his jarring. Commentators too examined.
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  Speaker 12: All the famous peripatetics know where the scoutists and then
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  Speaker 12: omenals differ. This certainly must needs enchanted, lady.
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  Speaker 4: This is too much.
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  Speaker 12: On the other side, the name of soldier bids you
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  Speaker 12: better welcome tis valor and feats done in the field
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  Speaker 12: a man should be cried up for. Nor is so
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  Speaker 12: hard to achieve.
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  Speaker 4: The fame of it?
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  Speaker 12: You mean, yes, and that will serve tis. But looking big,
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  Speaker 12: bragging with an easy grace, and confidently mustering up an
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  Speaker 12: hundred hard names, they understand not thunder out viroakatanan, boufflat
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  Speaker 12: speak of strange towns and castles whose barbarous names. The
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  Speaker 12: harsher there to the ear, the rarer and more taking
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  Speaker 12: still running over lines, trenches, outworks, counter scarps and forts, citadels, mines, countermines, piccuring, pioneers, sentinels, patrols,
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  Speaker 12: and others without sense or order. That matters not. The
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  Speaker 12: women are amazed. They admire to hear you wrap them
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  Speaker 12: out so readily, and many one that went no farther
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  Speaker 12: for it, retailing handsomely some warlike terms passes for a
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  Speaker 12: brave fellow don't stand gaping, but live and learn, My
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  Speaker 12: lad I can tell the ten thousand arts to make
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  Speaker 12: me known and valued in these regions of wit and gallantry.
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  Speaker 12: The park, the playhouse.
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  Speaker 4: Now you put me in mind. Where we are? What
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  Speaker 4: have we to do here? Thus early? Now there's no company?
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  Speaker 12: Oh sir, I have put on so much of the
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  Speaker 12: soldier with my red coat that I came here to
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  Speaker 12: observe the grow I'm to engage upon. Here, must I act?
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  Speaker 12: I know some lover's part, and therefore come to view
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  Speaker 12: this pleasant walk. I privately rambled to town last November.
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  Speaker 12: Here I hear. I stood and gazed at high More
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  Speaker 12: till I forgot it was winter. So many pretty sheaves
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  Speaker 12: marched by me. Oh to see the dear things trip
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  Speaker 12: along and brief, so short nipped with the season. I
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  Speaker 12: saw the very air, not without force, leave their dear lips.
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  Speaker 12: They were intolerably handsome.
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  Speaker 4: You'll see perhaps such today. But how to come adam.
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  Speaker 12: Ay, there's it? How to come at him?
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  Speaker 4: Are you generous?
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  Speaker 12: I think I am no niggard.
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  Speaker 4: You must entertain them high and bribe all about them.
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  Speaker 4: They talk of Ovin and his art of loving. Be liberal,
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  Speaker 4: and you outdo his precepts. The art of love, sir,
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  Speaker 4: is the art of giving. Be free to women. I'll
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  Speaker 4: be free to you. Not every open headed fellow hits it. Neither.
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  Speaker 4: Some give by lapfuls, and yet ne'er oblige. The manner
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  Speaker 4: you know of doing a thing is more than the
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  Speaker 4: thing itself. Some drop a jewel which had been refused
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  Speaker 4: if bluntly offered.
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  Speaker 12: Some lose at play when they design at present right.
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  Speaker 4: The skill is to be generous and seem not to
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  Speaker 4: know it of yourself tis done with so much ease.
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  Speaker 4: But a liberal blockhead presents his mistress as he'd give an.
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  Speaker 12: Alms, leaving such blockheads to their deserved ill fortune. Tell
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  Speaker 12: me if thou.
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  Speaker 4: Knowest these ladies, No, not I, sir. They are above
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  Speaker 4: an academic converse many degrees. I've seen ten thousand verses
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  Speaker 4: written in the university on wenches not fit to be
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  Speaker 4: either of their handmaids. I never spoke to such a
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  Speaker 4: fine thing as either in my whole life. I'm downright
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  Speaker 4: asleep a sudden I must fall back, and glad it
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  Speaker 4: is my place to do so. Yet I can get
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  Speaker 4: you intelligence. Perhaps I'll to the footman.
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  Speaker 12: Do you think you'll tell he.
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  Speaker 4: Would not to you, perhaps, but to a brother footman.
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  Speaker 4: Do but listen at the entrance of them all at noon,
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  Speaker 4: and you'll have all the ladies characters in town among
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  Speaker 4: their lackeys. You know, all fame begins from our domestics.
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  Speaker 12: That was a wise man's observation. Follow him and know
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  Speaker 12: what you can exit latein.
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  Speaker 1: Enter Penelope, Victoria, Simon and Latise.
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  Speaker 8: A walk round will be too much for us. We'll
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  Speaker 8: keep them all. But to our talk, I must confess
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  Speaker 8: I have terrors when I think of marrying love more.
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  Speaker 8: He is indeed a man of an honest character. He
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  Speaker 8: has my good opinion, but love does not always follow that.
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  Speaker 8: He is so wise, a fellow, always so precisely in
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  Speaker 8: the right, so observing, so jealous. He's blameless, indeed, but
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  Speaker 8: not to be commended. What good he has has no
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  Speaker 8: grace in it. He's one of those who's never highly
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  Speaker 8: mood except to anger. Give me a man that is
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  Speaker 8: agreeable fault rather than offensive virtues.
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  Speaker 15: Offensive virtues, madam.
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  Speaker 8: Yes, I don't know how there's a sort of virtue
• 21:24
  Speaker 8: or prudence, or what you'll call it that we can
• 21:27
  Speaker 8: but just approve that does not win us love more
• 21:31
  Speaker 8: wants that fire, that conversation spirit I would have. They
• 21:35
  Speaker 8: say he's learned as well as discreet, But I'm no
• 21:38
  Speaker 8: judge of that. I'm sure he's no women's scholar. His
• 21:41
  Speaker 8: wisdom he should turn into wit, and his learning into
• 21:44
  Speaker 8: poetry or humor.
• 21:46
  Speaker 15: Well, I'm not so much of your mind. I like
• 21:51
  Speaker 15: a sober passion, A sober passion.
• 21:55
  Speaker 8: You took me up just now, and I said, an
• 21:56
  Speaker 8: offensive virtue.
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: Bless me, stumbling almost to a fall, young boo quit
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: catching her?
• 22:05
  Speaker 12: How much am I indebted to an accident that favors me?
• 22:09
  Speaker 12: With an occasion of this small service for tis to
• 22:12
  Speaker 12: me and happiness beyond expression. Thus to kiss your hand the.
• 22:17
  Speaker 8: Occasion, methinks, is not so obliging, nor the happiness you
• 22:20
  Speaker 8: mentioned worth that name.
• 22:21
  Speaker 12: Sir tis true. Madam, I owe it all to fortune.
• 22:26
  Speaker 12: Neither your kindness nor my industry had any share. And
• 22:30
  Speaker 12: thus am I still as wretched as I was well?
• 22:32
  Speaker 12: This happiness I so much prize had doubtless been refused
• 22:36
  Speaker 12: my want of merit.
• 22:37
  Speaker 8: It has very soon, you see, lost what you valued
• 22:40
  Speaker 8: in it. But I find you and I, sir, have
• 22:43
  Speaker 8: a different sense for in my opinion. We enjoy with
• 22:46
  Speaker 8: most pleasure, but we attain at least merit. Merit is
• 22:50
  Speaker 8: a claim, and may pretend justly to favor, when without
• 22:54
  Speaker 8: it what's conferred is more unexpected and therefore more pleasing.
• 22:58
  Speaker 12: You talk very well, made of unhappiness. You can't possibly
• 23:02
  Speaker 12: be acquainted with the enjoying without dessert. But indeed you
• 23:06
  Speaker 12: have done me a very singular good office in letting
• 23:09
  Speaker 12: me know myself very much qualified for felicity.
• 23:13
  Speaker 15: I swear he's a very pretty fellow. And how readily
• 23:17
  Speaker 15: the thing talks. I begin to pity love more. But
• 23:21
  Speaker 15: I begin to hate Penelope. How he looks he looks
• 23:27
  Speaker 15: at her.
• 23:28
  Speaker 12: But judge, madam, what the condition of a passionate man
• 23:32
  Speaker 12: must be, that can approach the hand only of her?
• 23:35
  Speaker 12: He dies? For when a heart is inaccessible.
• 23:39
  Speaker 8: Tis very well the heart lies not so easily to
• 23:41
  Speaker 8: be seized as the hand I find. Pray, Sir, I
• 23:46
  Speaker 8: don't know what there is in this very old fellow.
• 23:48
  Speaker 8: I'm not angry, though he's downright rude.
• 23:51
  Speaker 12: But I must put your heart, madam, your heart.
• 23:55
  Speaker 8: You seem, sir, I must confess to have shown a
• 23:58
  Speaker 8: ready civility when i'd like to fall just now, for
• 24:01
  Speaker 8: which I could not but thank you and permit you
• 24:03
  Speaker 8: to say what you pleased on that occasion. But your heart, madam,
• 24:07
  Speaker 8: this a sure sign sir, you know not me or
• 24:10
  Speaker 8: if you are what indeed you seem a gentleman. Sure
• 24:14
  Speaker 8: you forget yourself, or rather you talk by memory a
• 24:17
  Speaker 8: form or can't which you mistake for something that's gallant.
• 24:21
  Speaker 12: Madam, I very humbly beg your pardon if I pressed
• 24:25
  Speaker 12: too far and too abruptly, I forgot indeed that I
• 24:29
  Speaker 12: broke through decencies, and that though you have been long
• 24:32
  Speaker 12: and familiar to me, I am a stranger to you.
• 24:37
  Speaker 8: Prety familiar stranger. What can you mean? I never saw
• 24:40
  Speaker 8: you before this instance, nor you me, I believe.
• 24:43
  Speaker 12: Perhaps not that you know have, madam, for your humility,
• 24:47
  Speaker 12: it seems, makes you so little sensible of your own
• 24:50
  Speaker 12: perfection that you overlook your conquest. Nor have you air
• 24:54
  Speaker 12: observed me. Though I have a day and night about
• 24:57
  Speaker 12: your lodging, haunt you from place to place, at balls
• 25:02
  Speaker 12: in the park, at church. I give you all the
• 25:05
  Speaker 12: serenades you've had, yet never till this minute could I
• 25:08
  Speaker 12: find you, And this minute unfortunate one. But this is
• 25:12
  Speaker 12: always my luck when I'm out of the field.
• 25:15
  Speaker 15: You've traveled then and seen the wars, Sir.
• 25:19
  Speaker 12: I, madam I All that I know of the matter
• 25:22
  Speaker 12: is that Louis the fourteenth mortally hates me. They talk
• 25:28
  Speaker 12: of French gold. What heaps have I refused yet to
• 25:32
  Speaker 12: be generous even to an enemy? I must allow that
• 25:35
  Speaker 12: prince has reason for his rancor to me. There has
• 25:39
  Speaker 12: not been a skirmish, siege or battle since I bore arms.
• 25:43
  Speaker 12: I made not one in No, not the least advantage
• 25:47
  Speaker 12: got of the enemy. But I had my share, though
• 25:51
  Speaker 12: perhaps not all my share of the glory. You've seen
• 25:55
  Speaker 12: my name, though you don't know it often in the gazette.
• 25:59
  Speaker 8: I never read.
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: Enter Latin.
• 26:02
  Speaker 4: What tales he telling? Now?
• 26:04
  Speaker 12: Trow, You've never heard, I suppose of such names as
• 26:08
  Speaker 12: ruremond Kai's as wet and Liege, nor read of an
• 26:12
  Speaker 12: English gentleman left dead by his precipitancy upon a parapeta
• 26:17
  Speaker 12: ven lou I was stopped. So indeed, when the first
• 26:21
  Speaker 12: account came away, every man has his failings. Ractionness is
• 26:25
  Speaker 12: my fault.
• 26:27
  Speaker 4: Don't you remember a certain place called Oxford among your towns?
• 26:30
  Speaker 12: Sir, sure away oh, oh, I beg your pardon, ladies.
• 26:36
  Speaker 12: This fellow knows I was shot in my left arm
• 26:39
  Speaker 12: and cannot bear the least touch, yet will still be
• 26:43
  Speaker 12: rushing on me Latine aside, he.
• 26:47
  Speaker 4: Has a lie. I think in every joint.
• 26:51
  Speaker 8: Do you bear any commissions?
• 26:52
  Speaker 12: Sir? There's an intimate of mine, A general officer who
• 26:56
  Speaker 12: has often said, Tom, if thou wouldst but stick to
• 26:59
  Speaker 12: anyone applicate, thou mightst be anything. Tis my misfortunate madam,
• 27:03
  Speaker 12: to have a mind too extensive. I began last summer's
• 27:07
  Speaker 12: campaign with the renowned Prince Eugene that was forced to
• 27:10
  Speaker 12: fly into Holland for a duel with that rough captain
• 27:13
  Speaker 12: of the Hussars, Paul Dayak. They talk of a regiment
• 27:17
  Speaker 12: for me, but those things besides it will oblige me
• 27:20
  Speaker 12: to attend it, And then I can't follow Honor where
• 27:24
  Speaker 12: she's busiest, but must be confined to one nation. When indeed,
• 27:27
  Speaker 12: tis rather my way of serving with such of our
• 27:30
  Speaker 12: allies as most wanted me.
• 27:32
  Speaker 8: But I see you soldiers never enjoy such a thing
• 27:34
  Speaker 8: as rest you. But to come home in winter to
• 27:37
  Speaker 8: turn your valor on the ladies' tis but just a
• 27:39
  Speaker 8: change of your warfare.
• 27:41
  Speaker 12: I had immediately returned to holland that your beauties, at
• 27:44
  Speaker 12: my arrival here disarmed me, Madam, made me a man
• 27:47
  Speaker 12: of peace, or raised a civil war within me. Rather,
• 27:51
  Speaker 12: you took me prisoner at first sight, and to your
• 27:54
  Speaker 12: charms I heielded up in heart till then unconquered. Marshall
• 28:00
  Speaker 12: lights want's best and dearest to me vanished before you
• 28:04
  Speaker 12: in a moment, and all my thoughts grew bent to
• 28:07
  Speaker 12: please and serve you.
• 28:09
  Speaker 10: Love mors in the walk, Madam, he'll be.
• 28:12
  Speaker 12: In a fit, rob me of the sudden nus of
• 28:15
  Speaker 12: all my happiness. Yet ere you quite forsake me, authorize
• 28:20
  Speaker 12: my passion, license my innocent flames, and give me leave
• 28:25
  Speaker 12: to love such charming sweetness.
• 28:29
  Speaker 8: He that will love and knows what is to love,
• 28:32
  Speaker 8: will ask no leave of any but himself.
• 28:34
  Speaker 4: Exclumed, Ladies follow him, Jack, I know as much of
• 28:40
  Speaker 4: him already as needs. The footman was, in his talking
• 28:43
  Speaker 4: vein the handsomer of the two, says he I serve,
• 28:48
  Speaker 4: and she lives in the garden what garden, Covent garden?
• 28:52
  Speaker 4: The other lies there too. I did not stay to
• 28:55
  Speaker 4: ask her name, But I shall meet him again I
• 28:58
  Speaker 4: took particular notice of the liver.
• 29:01
  Speaker 12: Neah trouble thyself to know which is which? My heart
• 29:04
  Speaker 12: and my good genius tell me. Tis she that pretty
• 29:07
  Speaker 12: shit I talked to?
• 29:09
  Speaker 4: If, with respect to your Worship's opinion, I might presume
• 29:12
  Speaker 4: to be a vay contrary one, I should think the
• 29:15
  Speaker 4: other the handsomer.
• 29:16
  Speaker 12: Now what the dumb thing? The picture? No love is
• 29:21
  Speaker 12: the union of minds, and she that engages mine must
• 29:24
  Speaker 12: be very well able to express her own. But I
• 29:27
  Speaker 12: suppose some scolding landlady has made you thus enamored with silence.
• 29:32
  Speaker 12: M But here are two of the dearest of my
• 29:34
  Speaker 12: old comrades. They seem amazed at something by their action.
• 29:39
  Speaker 3: Enter love more and Frederick How a collation on the water,
• 29:44
  Speaker 3: and music.
• 29:45
  Speaker 2: Too, Yes, music and a collation last night last.
• 29:51
  Speaker 3: Night too, And ansome Cheat, a very noble one who
• 29:56
  Speaker 3: gave it that I'm yet to learn.
• 30:01
  Speaker 12: How happy am I to meet you here?
• 30:04
  Speaker 2: When I embrace you? Thus, no happiness can equal mine?
• 30:09
  Speaker 12: Saluting, I thrust myself intrudingly upon you, but your pardon.
• 30:14
  Speaker 12: A man of a joy to see.
• 30:15
  Speaker 2: You where you're always welcome, you never can intrude.
• 30:20
  Speaker 12: What were you talking of?
• 30:22
  Speaker 2: Of an entertainment given by some lover. As we suppose.
• 30:28
  Speaker 12: That circumstance deserves my curiosity, pray, go on and let
• 30:32
  Speaker 12: me share the story.
• 30:34
  Speaker 2: Some ladies had the fiddles last.
• 30:37
  Speaker 12: Night upon the water too, methought you said.
• 30:40
  Speaker 2: Yes, twas upon the water water often feeds the flame sometimes,
• 30:47
  Speaker 2: and by night too, Yes, last night it shows a time.
• 30:52
  Speaker 12: Well, the lady is handsome.
• 30:55
  Speaker 2: In most men's eyes, she is, and the music good,
• 31:00
  Speaker 2: as we hear some banquet followed a sumptuous one, they say.
• 31:06
  Speaker 12: And neither of you all this while no who gave
• 31:09
  Speaker 12: this treat?
• 31:11
  Speaker 2: Do you laugh at it?
• 31:14
  Speaker 12: How can I choose to see you thus admire a
• 31:16
  Speaker 12: slight advertisement I gave myself you even I why have
• 31:23
  Speaker 12: you got a mistress here?
• 31:25
  Speaker 2: Already?
• 31:26
  Speaker 12: I should be sorry. Else, I've been in town this
• 31:29
  Speaker 12: month or more, though for some reasons I appear but little.
• 31:31
  Speaker 12: Yet by day, in the dark of the evening, I
• 31:34
  Speaker 12: peep out and incognito make some visits. Thus had I
• 31:38
  Speaker 12: spent my time?
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: But ill, we're not Latin to young Buquet.
• 31:43
  Speaker 4: Do you know what you say?
• 31:45
  Speaker 12: Sir?
• 31:46
  Speaker 6: Don't wear on so sick.
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: Young Buquet to Latin?
• 31:52
  Speaker 12: Nay, you must be sure to take care to be
• 31:54
  Speaker 12: in the way as soon as they land to show upstairs.
• 31:58
  Speaker 12: I beg pardon. I was giving my fellow some directions
• 32:00
  Speaker 12: about receiving some women of quality that sup with me
• 32:03
  Speaker 12: tonight in cogg. But you're my dearest friends, and shall
• 32:06
  Speaker 12: hear all Frederic to.
• 32:09
  Speaker 3: Love more, how luckily your rival discovers himself.
• 32:14
  Speaker 12: I took five barges, and the fairest kept for my company.
• 32:18
  Speaker 12: The other four I filled with music of all sorts,
• 32:21
  Speaker 12: and of all sorts, the best in the first, with fiddles,
• 32:24
  Speaker 12: in the next, fiorbo lutes and voices, flutes and such
• 32:29
  Speaker 12: pastoral instruments. The third loud. Music from the fourth did
• 32:34
  Speaker 12: pierce the air. Each concert vied by turns, which, with
• 32:38
  Speaker 12: most melody should charm our ears. The fifth, the largest
• 32:43
  Speaker 12: of them all, was neatly hung, not with dull tapestry,
• 32:48
  Speaker 12: but with green boughs curiously interlaced to let an air,
• 32:53
  Speaker 12: and every branch with jessamines and orange posies decked in
• 32:58
  Speaker 12: this The feast was kept hither with father the ladies.
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  Speaker 12: I let her, whose beauty alone governs my destiny. Supper
• 33:07
  Speaker 12: was served up straight. I will not trouble you with
• 33:10
  Speaker 12: our bill of fare, What dishes were best liked, what
• 33:13
  Speaker 12: sauces most recommended? Tis enough, I tell you. This delicious
• 33:16
  Speaker 12: feast was of six courses, twelve dishes to a course
• 33:22
  Speaker 12: latine assigned.
• 33:24
  Speaker 4: That's indeed enough of our conscience.
• 33:28
  Speaker 16: Love more aside, Oh, the torture of jealousy.
• 33:35
  Speaker 2: But sir, how seemed the lady to receive this entertainment?
• 33:41
  Speaker 12: We must know that, Oh, that was a heightened she.
• 33:45
  Speaker 12: I warrant, she was quite negligent of all this matter.
• 33:48
  Speaker 12: You know their way. They must not seem to like No,
• 33:52
  Speaker 12: I warrant it were not so much as smile to
• 33:54
  Speaker 12: make the fellow vain and believe he had power to
• 33:57
  Speaker 12: move the light in her. But how then, while you
• 34:01
  Speaker 12: must know, my humor grew poetic, I pulled off my
• 34:04
  Speaker 12: sword nant and with that bound up a coronet of ivy,
• 34:07
  Speaker 12: laurel and flowers, With that round my temples, and a
• 34:10
  Speaker 12: plate of richest fruits in my hand on one knee.
• 34:14
  Speaker 12: I presented her with it as a cornercopia, and halfering
• 34:17
  Speaker 12: from her, humble swain of all his harvest to her
• 34:21
  Speaker 12: the series of our genial feast and rural nerve. She
• 34:25
  Speaker 12: smiled the ladies clapped their hands, and all our music
• 34:29
  Speaker 12: struck sympathetic rapture at my happiness, where gentle wings, the river,
• 34:34
  Speaker 12: air and shaw echoed the harmony in notes more soft
• 34:39
  Speaker 12: than they received it. Methought, all nature seemed to die
• 34:42
  Speaker 12: for love like me, to all my heart, and every
• 34:46
  Speaker 12: pulse beat time, Uh, the pleasures of successful love. Ha,
• 34:52
  Speaker 12: love more ha. What hast thou got a good office? Lately?
• 34:56
  Speaker 12: You're afraid I should make some request? Pretty being so,
• 35:00
  Speaker 12: I have nothing to ask but of my mistress. What's
• 35:02
  Speaker 12: the matter?
• 35:04
  Speaker 2: I only attend, sir, I only attend.
• 35:08
  Speaker 12: Then I'll go on. As soon as we had supped,
• 35:11
  Speaker 12: the fireworks played. Squibs of all sorts were darted through
• 35:14
  Speaker 12: the skies, whose spreading fires made a new day. A
• 35:18
  Speaker 12: flaming deluge seemed to fall from heaven, and with such
• 35:22
  Speaker 12: violence attacked the waves, you would have thought the fiery
• 35:25
  Speaker 12: element had left his sphere to ruin his moist enemy.
• 35:28
  Speaker 12: Their contest done, we landed danced till day, which hasty
• 35:33
  Speaker 12: sword disturbed us with Too soon, had it taken our
• 35:37
  Speaker 12: advice or feared my anger, he might let his lap
• 35:41
  Speaker 12: have slept as long as that al Cameena's labor. He's reported,
• 35:45
  Speaker 12: but steering not as we would have prescribed. He put
• 35:48
  Speaker 12: a period to our envied mirth.
• 35:51
  Speaker 2: Trust me, you tell us wonders, and with a grace
• 35:56
  Speaker 2: as rare as the feast itself, which all our some
• 36:00
  Speaker 2: mirth can't equal.
• 36:02
  Speaker 12: My mistress took me of a sudden. I had not
• 36:05
  Speaker 12: a day's warning.
• 36:07
  Speaker 2: The treat was costly, though, and finally ordered.
• 36:11
  Speaker 12: I was forced to take up with this trifle. He
• 36:14
  Speaker 12: that once time can't do as you would.
• 36:17
  Speaker 2: Farewell, we shall meet again at more leisure.
• 36:20
  Speaker 12: Number me among your creatures.
• 36:22
  Speaker 2: Oh jealousy, thou.
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: Rack jealousy Frederick to love more?
• 36:30
  Speaker 3: What reason have you to feel it? The circumstances of
• 36:33
  Speaker 3: the feast nothing agree.
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: Love more to Frederick in time and place they do.
• 36:40
  Speaker 2: The rest is nothing.
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: Exhumed Frederick and love more.
• 36:45
  Speaker 4: May I speak now, sir, without offense?
• 36:48
  Speaker 12: Jason, your choice now to speak or not, but withfull
• 36:51
  Speaker 12: company you'll spoil all.
• 36:52
  Speaker 4: Do you walk abroad and talk in your sleep? Or
• 36:56
  Speaker 4: do you use to tell your dreams for correct truth?
• 37:00
  Speaker 12: Dull brain?
• 37:02
  Speaker 4: Why you beat up mine with your battles, your fireworks,
• 37:06
  Speaker 4: your music, and your feasts? You found an excellent way
• 37:10
  Speaker 4: to go to the wars and yet keep out of danger.
• 37:13
  Speaker 4: Then you feast your mistresses at the cheapest rate that
• 37:16
  Speaker 4: I ever knew. Why do you make them believe you
• 37:19
  Speaker 4: have been here these six weeks?
• 37:22
  Speaker 12: My passion has the more growth, and I the better
• 37:24
  Speaker 12: ground to make love.
• 37:26
  Speaker 4: You'd make one believe fine things that would but harken
• 37:30
  Speaker 4: to you. But this lady, you might soon have found
• 37:33
  Speaker 4: you out.
• 37:34
  Speaker 12: Some acquaintance I have got. However, this is making love scholar,
• 37:38
  Speaker 12: and at the best rate too.
• 37:41
  Speaker 4: To speak truth, I'm hardly coming to myself. Yet your
• 37:44
  Speaker 4: great supper lies on my stomach. Still I defy contact
• 37:50
  Speaker 4: to have prepared a better of a sudden You're enchanted
• 37:53
  Speaker 4: castles where strangers found strange tables, strangely furnished with strange
• 37:59
  Speaker 4: case were but sixpenny ordinaries to the fifth barge. You
• 38:04
  Speaker 4: are an excellent man to write romances, for having feasts
• 38:08
  Speaker 4: and battles at command. Your quixote and a trice would
• 38:11
  Speaker 4: overrun the world. Reveling and skirmishing costs you nothing. Then
• 38:16
  Speaker 4: you vary your scene with so much ease, and shift
• 38:19
  Speaker 4: from court to camp with such facility.
• 38:22
  Speaker 12: I love thus to outviy a newsmonga. And as soon
• 38:27
  Speaker 12: as I perceive a fellow thinks the story will surprise,
• 38:29
  Speaker 12: I choke him with a stranger and stop his mouth
• 38:32
  Speaker 12: with an extemple. Wonder didst thou but know what a
• 38:36
  Speaker 12: pleasure it is to cram their own news down their thropes.
• 38:39
  Speaker 4: Again, tis fine, but may prove dangerous sport, and may
• 38:44
  Speaker 4: involve us in a peck of troubles. Prithee, Tom, consider
• 38:48
  Speaker 4: that I am of quality to be kicked or cane by.
• 38:51
  Speaker 12: This hush hush college. Not lying it's for my waging war.
• 38:57
  Speaker 12: It is but just I snatch and steal from fortune
• 38:59
  Speaker 12: that fame which she denies me opportunity to deserve. My
• 39:03
  Speaker 12: father has cramped me in a college where all the
• 39:07
  Speaker 12: world has been in action. Then as to my lying
• 39:10
  Speaker 12: to my mistress, tis but what all the lovers upon
• 39:13
  Speaker 12: earth do call it?
• 39:15
  Speaker 10: Not?
• 39:15
  Speaker 12: Then by that coarse name a lie tis wit tis fable, allegory, fiction,
• 39:21
  Speaker 12: I purbly, or be it what you call it? The
• 39:24
  Speaker 12: world's made up almost of nothing else? What are all
• 39:28
  Speaker 12: the grave faces you meet in public? Mere silent lies, dark,
• 39:33
  Speaker 12: solemn france by which they would disguise vain, empty silly noddles.
• 39:39
  Speaker 12: But after all, to be serious, since I am resolved
• 39:42
  Speaker 12: honestly to love, I don't care how artfully I obtain
• 39:46
  Speaker 12: the woman I pitch upon. Besides, did you ever know
• 39:50
  Speaker 12: any of them acknowledged they loved as soon as they loved? No,
• 39:54
  Speaker 12: they let a man dwell upon his knees, whom they
• 39:57
  Speaker 12: languished to receive into their arms. The fair enemy, therefore
• 40:02
  Speaker 12: tis but just that we use all arts the fare
• 40:06
  Speaker 12: to undermine, and learn with gallantry to hide design exchange.
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: End of Act one, Act two of The Lying Lover
• 40:23
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• 40:38
  Speaker 1: Act the second scene one, Penelope's lodgings, Covent Garden, Enter
• 40:46
  Speaker 1: old bookquet Penelope and latise.
• 40:50
  Speaker 14: Mistress Penelope. I have your father's leave to wait upon you, madam,
• 40:57
  Speaker 14: and talk to you this morning, Nay, to talk to
• 41:01
  Speaker 14: you of marriage.
• 41:03
  Speaker 8: To talk to me of marriage, sir.
• 41:06
  Speaker 14: Yes, madam, on behalf of my son Tom Buckwitt Penelope aside.
• 41:13
  Speaker 8: Nay, there may perhaps be something said to.
• 41:15
  Speaker 14: That I sent for him from Oxford with that design.
• 41:21
  Speaker 14: He came to town but yesterday, And if a father can judge,
• 41:27
  Speaker 14: he brings from a college, the main and heir of
• 41:30
  Speaker 14: a court. I love my son entirely, and hope, madam,
• 41:36
  Speaker 14: you take my thoughts as to you to be no
• 41:39
  Speaker 14: want of respect to you, to a.
• 41:42
  Speaker 1: Want of censor to do that old bookquitt aside.
• 41:47
  Speaker 14: If I can remember my style to my mistress of old,
• 41:51
  Speaker 14: I'll ease Tom's way and raise her expectation of my son. Madam,
• 41:58
  Speaker 14: had I my hat, my father pantaloons and jerkin' on
• 42:03
  Speaker 14: as when I wooed your humble servant's mother, I would
• 42:07
  Speaker 14: deliver you his Errand I married her just such a
• 42:11
  Speaker 14: young thing as you. Her complexion was charming, but not
• 42:16
  Speaker 14: indeed with all your sweetness, oh sir. Her neck and
• 42:22
  Speaker 14: bosom were the softest pillows. Her shape was not of
• 42:26
  Speaker 14: that nice sort. Some young women suffer in shapes of
• 42:30
  Speaker 14: their mother's making, by spare diet, straight lacing, and constant chiding.
• 42:37
  Speaker 14: But twas the work of nature, free, unconstrained, healthy, And
• 42:44
  Speaker 14: but her charms had not all that emanation which yours.
• 42:47
  Speaker 17: Have fie fie, not those thousand thousand graces, that soft
• 42:55
  Speaker 17: army of loves and zephyrs, millions of airy beings that
• 42:59
  Speaker 17: attend round you and appear only to the second sight
• 43:03
  Speaker 17: of lovers.
• 43:05
  Speaker 8: Oh fy, pray good sir, you'll leave nothing for your
• 43:07
  Speaker 8: son to say.
• 43:09
  Speaker 1: Old Bequitt assigned.
• 43:12
  Speaker 14: I did not think I had such a memory. I
• 43:15
  Speaker 14: find the women are now certainly daughters of the women
• 43:19
  Speaker 14: before him. Flattery still does it. Tom is my only son,
• 43:26
  Speaker 14: and I extremely desire to have him settled. I own
• 43:30
  Speaker 14: I think him of much merit.
• 43:33
  Speaker 8: He would derogate from his birth were he not much
• 43:35
  Speaker 8: a gentleman. But to receive a man in the character
• 43:38
  Speaker 8: of a pretender at first sight.
• 43:41
  Speaker 14: I'll walk him by and by before your window, where
• 43:45
  Speaker 14: your own eyes shall judge. I think there's nothing above
• 43:50
  Speaker 14: his pretenses but yourself. But when one of so many
• 43:55
  Speaker 14: excellent qualities bestows herself, it must be condescension. You shall
• 44:01
  Speaker 14: not answer, farewell, daughter, we are but too apt to
• 44:06
  Speaker 14: believe what we wish.
• 44:08
  Speaker 1: Exit Old the.
• 44:09
  Speaker 8: Quit just as you said letters, Old Bockwitt came to
• 44:13
  Speaker 8: propose her son.
• 44:15
  Speaker 10: I overheard the old gentleman talk of it last night
• 44:18
  Speaker 10: but madam, you haven't heard a song that was made
• 44:22
  Speaker 10: on you. Oh tis mighty pretty. The gentleman is dying
• 44:28
  Speaker 10: for you. He says it pure, pure verses.
• 44:34
  Speaker 8: Whoever writ him, He's not the first poet I've made.
• 44:38
  Speaker 8: They may talk and say nature makes a poet, But
• 44:41
  Speaker 8: I say love makes a poet. Don't you see older
• 44:44
  Speaker 8: brothers who are by nature born above wit shall fall
• 44:47
  Speaker 8: in love and write verses nay and pretty good ones.
• 44:50
  Speaker 8: Considering they can tag him to settlements. But that's see
• 44:54
  Speaker 8: reading to Celia's spinnett, thou soft machine at dost hand, obey,
• 45:01
  Speaker 8: tell her my grief in thy harmonious lay, poor man,
• 45:07
  Speaker 8: to shine my moan to thee. She will fly to
• 45:09
  Speaker 8: her touch. Be sure reply, and if she removes it die.
• 45:15
  Speaker 8: The device is just and truly poetical. Know thy bliss, Aye, ay,
• 45:21
  Speaker 8: there are I come in. Know thy bliss with a
• 45:24
  Speaker 8: rapture shake, tremble o'er all thy numerous make speak in
• 45:28
  Speaker 8: melting sounds. My tears, speak, my joys, my hopes, my fears,
• 45:33
  Speaker 8: which all depend upon me. Thus force her when from
• 45:37
  Speaker 8: me she'd fly by her own hand like me to die. Well,
• 45:43
  Speaker 8: certainly nothing touches the heart of women so much as poetry.
• 45:46
  Speaker 8: I suppose the master is in the next room. Tis
• 45:49
  Speaker 8: is our desire him to walk in twill make one's
• 45:52
  Speaker 8: ears tingle a song on one's self.
• 45:56
  Speaker 1: Here the song is performed to a spinnet.
• 46:00
  Speaker 8: Well, dost think lettters my grave lover writ this fine thing,
• 46:04
  Speaker 8: says to that.
• 46:05
  Speaker 10: No, Madam, nobody writes songs on those they.
• 46:09
  Speaker 1: Are sure of.
• 46:11
  Speaker 8: Sure of me the insolent.
• 46:14
  Speaker 10: Nay, I know no more. But that he said he'd
• 46:17
  Speaker 10: turned me away as soon as he had married you.
• 46:21
  Speaker 8: Tis like enough. That's the common practice of your jealous
• 46:24
  Speaker 8: headed fellows. Well, I have a good mind to dress
• 46:27
  Speaker 8: myself an put on my best looks, and send for
• 46:30
  Speaker 8: him to dismiss him.
• 46:32
  Speaker 10: I know he loves me, I never knew him show it.
• 46:35
  Speaker 10: But by his jealousy, as.
• 46:37
  Speaker 8: You say, a jealous fellow love tis all mistake. Tis
• 46:41
  Speaker 8: only for himself. He has desires, nor cares what the
• 46:44
  Speaker 8: object of his wishes suffers, so he himself a satisfaction. No,
• 46:49
  Speaker 8: he has a gluttony, an hunger for me.
• 46:53
  Speaker 10: An hunger for you. I protest, madam, if you'd let
• 46:57
  Speaker 10: me be his cook and make you ready, I'd poison him.
• 47:03
  Speaker 10: But I'm glad Simon disobate you and told the gentleman
• 47:06
  Speaker 10: so and who you were and your lodging?
• 47:09
  Speaker 8: Did the borg do so?
• 47:11
  Speaker 10: Call him Heather Simon? Why Simon?
• 47:15
  Speaker 1: Enter Simon, Sirrah, I find I must at last turn
• 47:20
  Speaker 1: you off, You saucy fellow.
• 47:22
  Speaker 8: Don't stand staring and dodging with your feet and wearing
• 47:25
  Speaker 8: out your livery hat with squeezing for an excuse. But
• 47:28
  Speaker 8: answer me and that presently.
• 47:31
  Speaker 7: I will, ma'am, as soon as you asked me a question.
• 47:35
  Speaker 8: Not a four? Then, mister pet don't you know he
• 47:38
  Speaker 8: told the gentleman's footman in the park who I was
• 47:41
  Speaker 8: against my constant order when I walk early? Come, sirrah,
• 47:46
  Speaker 8: tell all that passed between you.
• 47:48
  Speaker 7: Why, ma'am? The gentleman's gentleman came up to me very
• 47:52
  Speaker 7: civilly and said his master was in discourse with my lady.
• 47:57
  Speaker 7: He supposed then he fell to talk about veils, about
• 48:02
  Speaker 7: profits in a service. At last, after a deal of
• 48:07
  Speaker 7: civil discourse between us.
• 48:10
  Speaker 8: Come without this preamble? What to he ask to you?
• 48:12
  Speaker 8: In pertinence?
• 48:13
  Speaker 7: Tell that do he asked about you and Madame Victoria?
• 48:19
  Speaker 7: I said, the answer mist the two is my lady speak.
• 48:24
  Speaker 8: On boldly, Simon, I'm never angry at a servant that
• 48:26
  Speaker 8: speaks truth.
• 48:28
  Speaker 7: He told me he should be very proud of my acquaintance. Indeed, ma'am,
• 48:34
  Speaker 7: the man was very well spoken and showed a great
• 48:37
  Speaker 7: deal of respect for me. On your ladyship's account, he
• 48:43
  Speaker 7: is a mighty well spoken man, and said he found
• 48:46
  Speaker 7: I was a smart gentleman. Said he'd come again.
• 48:52
  Speaker 8: Go you've done your business, go down exit well.
• 48:57
  Speaker 10: After all, Madam, I didn't not think that gentlemen displeased
• 49:02
  Speaker 10: you had.
• 49:03
  Speaker 8: But young Boo quit his mean and conversation. How easily
• 49:07
  Speaker 8: would he exclude love More.
• 49:09
  Speaker 1: Enter servant.
• 49:11
  Speaker 11: Mister Lovemore is coming up, Madam.
• 49:14
  Speaker 8: He has not heard sure of this new proposal.
• 49:17
  Speaker 10: Tis possible he may and come to rent or upbraid
• 49:20
  Speaker 10: your ladyship. I wonder you inure him on these occasions.
• 49:26
  Speaker 8: I'll rack his very heart strings. He shall know all
• 49:29
  Speaker 8: that man as suffered for his native mistress woman.
• 49:33
  Speaker 10: His father, Madam, has been so long coming out of Suffolk.
• 49:38
  Speaker 10: There are strange tricks in the world, But tis not
• 49:43
  Speaker 10: my place to speak.
• 49:45
  Speaker 8: However, his father may come at last, I will not
• 49:48
  Speaker 8: wholly lose him, as bad as he is, he's better
• 49:51
  Speaker 8: than her hospital at all. Stay in the room. I'll
• 49:54
  Speaker 8: talk to you as if he were not present.
• 49:57
  Speaker 2: Enter love more, Ah, Penelope inconstant, fickle Penelope.
• 50:06
  Speaker 8: But letters, you don't tell me what the gentleman said.
• 50:09
  Speaker 8: Now there's nobody here. You may speak.
• 50:12
  Speaker 2: Now there's nobody here. Then am I a thing? Are utensil?
• 50:17
  Speaker 2: I am nobody and I have no essence that I
• 50:21
  Speaker 2: am sensible of. I think twill be so soon, this ingreat,
• 50:25
  Speaker 2: this perjured.
• 50:28
  Speaker 8: Tell me I say how the match happened to break off?
• 50:32
  Speaker 2: This is downright abuse. What don't you see me, madam?
• 50:37
  Speaker 10: He had to folly upon her, being commonly civil to
• 50:41
  Speaker 10: him to talk of directing her affairs before his time.
• 50:46
  Speaker 10: In the first place, he thought it but necessary. Her maid,
• 50:50
  Speaker 10: her faithful servant, missus Betty, should be removed.
• 50:56
  Speaker 2: Her faithful servant, missus Betty, her betrayer, her whisperer, missus Lettis. Madam,
• 51:04
  Speaker 2: would you but hear me?
• 51:06
  Speaker 8: I will be heard pretty stop letters, and see what
• 51:11
  Speaker 8: noise is that?
• 51:12
  Speaker 12: Without the noise is here?
• 51:15
  Speaker 2: Madam? Tis I that make what you call noise? Tis
• 51:19
  Speaker 2: I that claim allowed my right and speak to all
• 51:24
  Speaker 2: the world the wrongs I suffer.
• 51:28
  Speaker 8: Cooling herbs well steeped, a good anadyne at night, made
• 51:32
  Speaker 8: of the juice of hellebore, with very thin diet, maybe
• 51:35
  Speaker 8: of use in these cases.
• 51:37
  Speaker 1: Both looking at him as disturbed.
• 51:41
  Speaker 2: Cases, What cases? I shall downright run mad with this
• 51:47
  Speaker 2: damned usage?
• 51:48
  Speaker 12: Am I a jest?
• 51:52
  Speaker 15: A jest?
• 51:53
  Speaker 10: No faith? This is far from a merry madness?
• 51:58
  Speaker 2: Harky lettis how downright box you hold your tongue gipsy?
• 52:06
  Speaker 10: Dear madam, save.
• 52:08
  Speaker 8: Me, go you to him, Let him take you? Oh
• 52:12
  Speaker 8: plus me, how he stirs take her, take her, take.
• 52:15
  Speaker 1: Her running round each other?
• 52:18
  Speaker 2: Very fine? No, madam, your gallant, your spark last night,
• 52:26
  Speaker 2: your fine dancer entertainer shall take you. He that was
• 52:31
  Speaker 2: your swain, and you I warrant a fantastic nymph of
• 52:36
  Speaker 2: the flood or forest to be out all night with
• 52:41
  Speaker 2: a young fellow. Oh that makes you change your countenance?
• 52:46
  Speaker 2: Does it?
• 52:47
  Speaker 16: So?
• 52:48
  Speaker 2: Fine? Lady? You wonder how I came to know why
• 52:54
  Speaker 2: choose a discreetor the next time he told me all
• 52:58
  Speaker 2: himself swoon die for shame at hearing of these words?
• 53:04
  Speaker 8: Do I am indeed downright ashamed for him that speaks
• 53:08
  Speaker 8: him whence this insolence if not from utter distraction under
• 53:12
  Speaker 8: this roof?
• 53:13
  Speaker 2: Oh the ingrate, have not I, madam, two long years,
• 53:21
  Speaker 2: two ages with humblest resignation depended on your smile. And
• 53:31
  Speaker 2: shall I suffer one of yesterday's to treat you to
• 53:36
  Speaker 2: dance all night with you?
• 53:38
  Speaker 8: Speak softly, my father's coming down, Thy.
• 53:41
  Speaker 2: Father's coming down. Faithless, thou hast no father but to
• 53:46
  Speaker 2: cross me by night upon the water.
• 53:51
  Speaker 8: Well, by night upon the water?
• 53:53
  Speaker 2: What then, yes, all night?
• 53:57
  Speaker 8: What of that?
• 53:59
  Speaker 2: Without blushing when you hear of it?
• 54:01
  Speaker 12: Blush?
• 54:02
  Speaker 8: For what what do you drive at?
• 54:05
  Speaker 2: Can you then coolly ask? What tis I mean? Thou reveler,
• 54:13
  Speaker 2: thou rambler, a fine young lady with your midnight frolics.
• 54:20
  Speaker 2: But what do I pretend to? I know not how
• 54:25
  Speaker 2: with bended knees to call you series make you an
• 54:30
  Speaker 2: offering of summer fruits, and deify your vanity? Thou art
• 54:36
  Speaker 2: no goddess, thout a very woman with all the guile,
• 54:41
  Speaker 2: your barges, your treats, your fireworks.
• 54:44
  Speaker 8: What means the insolent you grow insufferable?
• 54:48
  Speaker 2: Oh Penelope? That look, that disdainful look, has pierced my
• 54:56
  Speaker 2: soul and ebbed my rage to penitence and sorrow. I
• 55:03
  Speaker 2: own my fault. I'm too rash.
• 55:06
  Speaker 8: The imaginary enemies you raise are but mere forms of
• 55:09
  Speaker 8: your sickly brain, so I think and scorn them. A diffident,
• 55:14
  Speaker 8: a humorous and ungenerous man who without grounds calls me
• 55:17
  Speaker 8: inconstant shall surely find me. So she will be very
• 55:21
  Speaker 8: happy that takes a constant man with twenty thousand humors.
• 55:25
  Speaker 2: Is it a fault my life's bound up in thee
• 55:31
  Speaker 2: that all my powers change with thy looks, that my
• 55:37
  Speaker 2: eyes gloat on thee when thou art present an ache
• 55:43
  Speaker 2: and roll for light, when thou art.
• 55:45
  Speaker 1: Absent penelope aside.
• 55:49
  Speaker 8: A little ill usage I see improves a lover. I
• 55:52
  Speaker 8: never heard him speak so well in my life before
• 55:55
  Speaker 8: of you.
• 55:56
  Speaker 2: I am not jealous. Tis my own in dessert that
• 55:59
  Speaker 2: gives me fears and tenderness forms dangers where they're not.
• 56:04
  Speaker 2: I doubt and envy all things that approach thee. Not
• 56:09
  Speaker 2: a fond mother of a long wished for only child
• 56:13
  Speaker 2: beholds with such kind terrors her infant offspring as I
• 56:18
  Speaker 2: do her, I love. She thinks it's food if she's
• 56:23
  Speaker 2: not by unwholesome in all the ambient air made up
• 56:28
  Speaker 2: of fevers and quartain ageus, except she shrouds it in
• 56:33
  Speaker 2: her arms. Such is my unpitied anxious care for you.
• 56:40
  Speaker 2: And can I see another?
• 56:42
  Speaker 12: What other?
• 56:44
  Speaker 2: Nay? If you make a secret of your meeting, there's
• 56:49
  Speaker 2: all that I suspect in it. Another young Buoquet is another.
• 56:55
  Speaker 8: I never saways face young Booquet?
• 56:58
  Speaker 2: What not though he solicited a glance with symphonies of
• 57:03
  Speaker 2: charming note, with sumptuous dishes. Not when the flying meteors
• 57:07
  Speaker 2: from earth made a new day, not see him? Oh
• 57:11
  Speaker 2: that was hard, that was unkind.
• 57:16
  Speaker 12: Not one look for all.
• 57:19
  Speaker 2: This gallantry, But love is blind. You can be all
• 57:25
  Speaker 2: night with the sun, all day with the father and
• 57:27
  Speaker 2: never see either. His father was here this morning. Seek
• 57:32
  Speaker 2: not to excuse. I find your arts and see their
• 57:35
  Speaker 2: aim too. Go go take your book, wit, forget your
• 57:45
  Speaker 2: lover as he now?
• 57:48
  Speaker 1: Must you going?
• 57:50
  Speaker 4: Hey?
• 57:51
  Speaker 8: But three words?
• 57:52
  Speaker 2: What shall they be?
• 57:54
  Speaker 8: Pretty hammy?
• 57:56
  Speaker 2: No? No, your father's coming down.
• 57:59
  Speaker 8: He's nor can he overhear us. There's time and privacy
• 58:03
  Speaker 8: enough to disabuse you.
• 58:05
  Speaker 2: I'll hear nothing unless you will be married, unless you
• 58:12
  Speaker 2: give me as a present earnest of yourself. Three kisses
• 58:18
  Speaker 2: and your word.
• 58:19
  Speaker 8: Forever to give way to my satisfaction, then and be
• 58:23
  Speaker 8: friends again you would, mister Love will have three kisses.
• 58:27
  Speaker 2: Three kisses, your faith and hand.
• 58:31
  Speaker 8: Nothing else. Will you be so contented?
• 58:34
  Speaker 2: I'll expect higher terms. If you accept not these quickly, then.
• 58:38
  Speaker 8: Well then nope. My father's coming.
• 58:42
  Speaker 2: Laugh, and my sufferings slight, my anger? Is this your
• 58:46
  Speaker 2: base requital of my love? Revenge, revenge? I'll print on
• 58:54
  Speaker 2: my favorite in his heart's blood, my revenge, our swords,
• 58:59
  Speaker 2: our God shall dispute our pretenses rather than he enjoy
• 59:03
  Speaker 2: what my long services entitled me too, which is to
• 59:06
  Speaker 2: do myself right for what he intends an injury. Though
• 59:09
  Speaker 2: perhaps what we shall dispute for is better lost.
• 59:14
  Speaker 8: Mister lovemore, you have taken very great liberties. You say
• 59:19
  Speaker 8: I've injured you in my regard to another. Is your opinion? Then,
• 59:23
  Speaker 8: of what you say you will dispute for such as
• 59:25
  Speaker 8: you just now said, better lost?
• 59:28
  Speaker 2: Look you madam, so therefore as to that that is such?
• 59:37
  Speaker 2: For that it you don't consider what you've said to me,
• 59:42
  Speaker 2: you shall buy all that you shall repent.
• 59:46
  Speaker 1: This flings out.
• 59:49
  Speaker 8: This is all we have for it, A little dominion beforehand.
• 59:53
  Speaker 8: These are the creatures that are born to rule us,
• 59:56
  Speaker 8: who creep, who flatter and servilely beseech your faith which obtained,
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 8: They grow sullen, proud, and insolent pryor to the gift
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 8: the manner of bestowing with all the little lots, the
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 8: ungrateful youths, to hide or kill their sense and conscience
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 8: of a benefit.
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 10: II I, Madam tis so I had a sweetheart once,
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 10: a lady's butler, to whom I gave a lock of
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 10: my hair. And the villain, when we quarreled, told me
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 10: half of them were gray ha ha.
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 8: The ingrate, the faithless, as love Moore says.
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 10: And yet Madam the rogue stole a letter out of
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 10: a book to ask me for it. As my next
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 10: suitor found out.
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 8: However, I am sure 'tis in my fate to be
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 8: subject to one of them.
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 10: Very suddenly, ah, Madame the Gentleman, this morning.
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 8: The fellows very well, and I'm mightily mistaken of my
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 8: cousin Victoria did not think.
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 1: So lettis aside, And so do you hear TV.
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 8: Yet I wish I had seen this young piquet before
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 8: Love marking.
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 10: Today, I'll tell you how Madame Victoria has never a
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 10: lover and is your entire friend. Now, madam, suppose you
• 1:01:16
  Speaker 10: got her to write a letter to this young gentleman
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 10: in her own name, you meet him under that name incognito.
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 10: Then if an accident should happen, both you and she
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 10: will be safe and puzzle the truth you never writ
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 10: to him, she never met him.
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 8: A lucky thought. Stop to her immediately, I'll come to her,
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 8: or she to me.
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 1: I fly, I fly exit.
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 8: This is indeed a lucky hint of the wench, in
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 8: which I have another draft too. Now shall I sift
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 8: my friend Victoria and perfectly understand whether she likes that
• 1:01:59
  Speaker 8: a young fellow, For if her reserved humor easily falls
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 8: in with this design on biquit, she's certainly smitten with
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 8: the other, and suspects me to be so too. What
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 8: is this, dear, This sudden intruder? Love that of Victoria's
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 8: long and faithful friendship, love more's anxious and constant passion,
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 8: both vanished before it in a moment? Why are our
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 8: hearts so accessible at our eyes?
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 1: Enter Victoria and lettis, Oh, my dear.
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 15: Dear pen, I ran to you? Well, what is it?
• 1:02:33
  Speaker 2: Set?
• 1:02:33
  Speaker 8: Chairs and the bohea te and leave us exit. Letise,
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 8: Dear Victoria, you have always been my most intimate bosom friend.
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 8: Your wary carriage and circumspection have often been a safety
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 8: against ours to me.
• 1:02:47
  Speaker 1: I must confess it filling her tea.
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 15: But my dear, why this preface to me to the matter.
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 8: You know all that has passed between me and mister Lovemore.
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 15: I have always approved him, and do now more than ever.
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 15: For tis not a mean and air that makes that
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 15: worthy creature a kind husband, but true.
• 1:03:09
  Speaker 8: But here was old Bickquit this morning with my father's
• 1:03:11
  Speaker 8: authority to talk on me of the subject of love.
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 15: Nay, madam, if so, and you can resolve to obey
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  Speaker 15: your father, I contend not for lover More, For though
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 15: the young men of this age are so very vicious,
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 15: so expensive both of their health and.
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  Speaker 1: Fortune, Penelope aside, how zealous she is to put me
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 1: out of her way, false creature.
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  Speaker 8: But my dear friend, you don't take me your friendship
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 8: outruns my explanation. Twas for his son at oxf he
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 8: came to me, he is to walk with him before
• 1:03:45
  Speaker 8: the door that I may view him by and by.
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  Speaker 15: Nay, as one must obey their parents, wholly. I think
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  Speaker 15: a wrong young man that never saw the town is
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 15: better than an old one that has run through all
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 15: its vices. I congratulate your good fortune. There's a great estate,
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 15: and he knows nothing. Just come to tell. The furniture
• 1:04:07
  Speaker 15: and the horsecloths will be all your own device for
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 15: the wedding, and the horses when and where you please.
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 15: He knows no better.
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  Speaker 8: But one shall be so long teaching a rule, creature
• 1:04:18
  Speaker 8: a manner.
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  Speaker 15: Never let him have one twill make him like himself,
• 1:04:23
  Speaker 15: and think of making advances elsewhere. You'd better have him
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 15: a booby. How could I think of the old fellow?
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 15: For you, look, you penn. Old age has its infirmities,
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 15: and tis a sad prospect for an honest young woman
• 1:04:39
  Speaker 15: to be sure of being a nurse and never of
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 15: being a mother.
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  Speaker 8: Oh that I had but your prudence. But my dare,
• 1:04:47
  Speaker 8: I have a request to make to you, and that
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  Speaker 8: is that you would write him an actignation this evening
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 8: in the park. I'll obey the appointment and converse with
• 1:04:55
  Speaker 8: him under that disguise, for the old people will clap
• 1:04:58
  Speaker 8: up a match before I know anything of the real man.
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 8: And if one don't know one's husband. How can one
• 1:05:04
  Speaker 8: manage him, that is to say, obey him?
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  Speaker 15: Oh, pray, my dear, do you think I don't understand you? Oh?
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  Speaker 15: And there's another thing. A scholar makes the best husband in.
• 1:05:16
  Speaker 8: The world because they are the most knowing.
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  Speaker 15: No, because they are the least knowing. But I'll go
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 15: immediately and obey your commands. I wish you heartily well,
• 1:05:27
  Speaker 15: my dear in this matter.
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  Speaker 8: Kissing her, I thank you, dearest, I don't doubt it.
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  Speaker 15: Indeed, where are you going now, my dear? Oh fie,
• 1:05:37
  Speaker 15: this is not like a friend. Do I use you so,
• 1:05:40
  Speaker 15: dear madam?
• 1:05:42
  Speaker 8: No, indeed, madam, I must wait on you.
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  Speaker 15: Indeed you shan't. Indeed you shan't.
• 1:05:47
  Speaker 1: Penelope follows Victoria, Well.
• 1:05:51
  Speaker 8: Madam, will you promise then to be as free with me?
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 8: Thus does she hope to work me out of my
• 1:05:56
  Speaker 8: lover by being made my confident? But that basiness has
• 1:06:00
  Speaker 8: been too fashionable to pass anymore. I have not trusted her,
• 1:06:04
  Speaker 8: the cunning creature. I begin to hate her, sir. I'll
• 1:06:08
  Speaker 8: never be a minute from her exit.
• 1:06:13
  Speaker 1: Seem too Covent Garden, Enter Old Boquet, Young Buquitt and lutein.
• 1:06:21
  Speaker 14: Well Tom where have you sauntered about since I saw you?
• 1:06:27
  Speaker 14: Is not the town mightily increased that you were in it?
• 1:06:30
  Speaker 12: I indeed I need not have been so impatient to
• 1:06:34
  Speaker 12: have left Oxford. Had I stayed he here longer they
• 1:06:37
  Speaker 12: had builded to me.
• 1:06:39
  Speaker 14: But I don't observe you affected much with the alterations.
• 1:06:43
  Speaker 14: Where have you been?
• 1:06:46
  Speaker 12: No faith? The new exchange has taken up all my curiosity.
• 1:06:50
  Speaker 14: Oh but son, you must not go to places to
• 1:06:54
  Speaker 14: stare at women. Did you buy anything?
• 1:06:58
  Speaker 12: Some bobbles? But my choice was so distracted among the
• 1:07:02
  Speaker 12: pretty merchants and their dealers, I knew not where to run. First,
• 1:07:07
  Speaker 12: one little lisping rogue ribbons gloves, tippeth sir cries another
• 1:07:13
  Speaker 12: will you buy a fine sort nott? Then a third,
• 1:07:16
  Speaker 12: pretty voice and courtesy? Does not your lady want hoods, scarves,
• 1:07:21
  Speaker 12: fine green silk stockings. I went by as if I
• 1:07:25
  Speaker 12: had been in a seraglio, a living gallery of beauties,
• 1:07:29
  Speaker 12: staring from side to side, I bowing, they laughing. So
• 1:07:34
  Speaker 12: made my escape and brought your son an air safe
• 1:07:37
  Speaker 12: to you through all these darts and glances, to which,
• 1:07:40
  Speaker 12: indeed my breast is not impregnable. But I wonder whence
• 1:07:44
  Speaker 12: I had this amorous inclination.
• 1:07:47
  Speaker 14: Oh where you had it from Sarah? Tis your business
• 1:07:50
  Speaker 14: to correct it by texting it upon a proper object.
• 1:07:55
  Speaker 14: But Tom, you know I am always glad to hear
• 1:07:59
  Speaker 14: you talk with the gayety before me that you do elsewhere.
• 1:08:03
  Speaker 14: But I have now something of consequence.
• 1:08:07
  Speaker 1: Aside.
• 1:08:08
  Speaker 14: That sudden serious look was so like me. What I
• 1:08:12
  Speaker 14: am going to say now, I tell you, is extraordinary.
• 1:08:17
  Speaker 12: I could not, indeed help some seeming extravagancies I have
• 1:08:20
  Speaker 12: been forced to.
• 1:08:21
  Speaker 14: But I do not grudge you your expenses. I was
• 1:08:25
  Speaker 14: not going to speak on it, for I decay, and
• 1:08:30
  Speaker 14: so do my desires, while yours grow still upon you. Therefore,
• 1:08:36
  Speaker 14: what may be spared from mine, I heartily give you
• 1:08:39
  Speaker 14: to supply yours. Tis but the just order of things
• 1:08:44
  Speaker 14: I scorned a horde. What I only now can gaze at.
• 1:08:48
  Speaker 14: While your youth in person want those entertainments, you may
• 1:08:52
  Speaker 14: become and taste all your just pleasures of mine also
• 1:08:58
  Speaker 14: in you my youth and gay years. Methinks I feel repeated.
• 1:09:03
  Speaker 12: Then what can give you, sir? Uneasiness?
• 1:09:06
  Speaker 14: Your affectation of a soldier's dress makes me think you
• 1:09:11
  Speaker 14: bent upon a dangerous, though noble course, that you'll expose
• 1:09:15
  Speaker 14: a life that's dearer to your father than yourself to
• 1:09:19
  Speaker 14: daily hazards. I therefore have resolved to settle thee and
• 1:09:25
  Speaker 14: chosen a young lady, witty, prudent, rich and fair.
• 1:09:30
  Speaker 1: Young.
• 1:09:30
  Speaker 12: Be quit assigned, Oh, Victoria, you cannot move too slowly
• 1:09:36
  Speaker 12: in such a business.
• 1:09:38
  Speaker 14: Nay tis no sudden thing. Her father and I have
• 1:09:42
  Speaker 14: been old acquaintance, and I was so confident of her
• 1:09:46
  Speaker 14: worth and your compliance, that I can't, with honor disengage myself.
• 1:09:53
  Speaker 12: How sir, an honor calls me to the field where
• 1:09:56
  Speaker 12: I may perpetuate your name by some brave exploit.
• 1:09:59
  Speaker 14: You may do it much better, Tom, at home, by
• 1:10:02
  Speaker 14: a brave boy. Come come, it must.
• 1:10:06
  Speaker 1: Be so, young, Be quit aside?
• 1:10:10
  Speaker 12: What shall I do for some invention?
• 1:10:13
  Speaker 14: Let it be so, dear Tom, It must be so?
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  Speaker 12: What if it be impossible?
• 1:10:20
  Speaker 14: Impossible?
• 1:10:21
  Speaker 12: As how upon my knees, I beg your pardon, Sir,
• 1:10:25
  Speaker 12: I am what at Oxford?
• 1:10:28
  Speaker 14: What art thou at Oxford? Rise and tell me why I.
• 1:10:33
  Speaker 12: Am married there? Since you needs must.
• 1:10:35
  Speaker 14: Know married without my consent.
• 1:10:40
  Speaker 12: There was a force upon me. You'll easily get all
• 1:10:43
  Speaker 12: annulled if you desire it. It was the crossest, most
• 1:10:46
  Speaker 12: unhappy accident. Yet indeed she is an excellent creature.
• 1:10:51
  Speaker 16: Latine aside, how could he conceal this all this while
• 1:10:56
  Speaker 16: from me?
• 1:10:58
  Speaker 4: But I remember he used to be out of the
• 1:11:00
  Speaker 4: college whole nights. We knew not where.
• 1:11:03
  Speaker 1: Penelope and Victoria at the window. Penelope aside, the.
• 1:11:09
  Speaker 8: Very man we met this morning, and I employ my
• 1:11:12
  Speaker 8: rival to write to him. How confidently she stares at
• 1:11:16
  Speaker 8: the fellow and observes his action.
• 1:11:19
  Speaker 15: Betty, do you see with what intent and with what
• 1:11:22
  Speaker 15: fire in her eyes? Penelope gazes yonder? But take you
• 1:11:27
  Speaker 15: that letter and give it when the old gentleman's gone. Goodness,
• 1:11:30
  Speaker 15: how concerned she seems.
• 1:11:33
  Speaker 1: Well, some women exclaimed, ladies from aboves.
• 1:11:38
  Speaker 14: Let that pass, since the business is irrevocable. What is
• 1:11:42
  Speaker 14: her name?
• 1:11:44
  Speaker 12: Matilda and a father's new tongue.
• 1:11:47
  Speaker 14: Their names I never heard before.
• 1:11:50
  Speaker 12: But go on, this lady, sir, I saw in a
• 1:11:53
  Speaker 12: public assembly at the first side, she made me hers
• 1:11:57
  Speaker 12: forever from that instant I languished, nor had vital heat.
• 1:12:01
  Speaker 12: Out of her presence. The sun to me shed influenced
• 1:12:04
  Speaker 12: in vain. He rose and set both unobserved, nor was
• 1:12:08
  Speaker 12: to any living this human life so much a dream
• 1:12:11
  Speaker 12: as me. All this she observed, but not untouched observed.
• 1:12:16
  Speaker 12: She showed a noble gratitude to a noble passion favors
• 1:12:20
  Speaker 12: I soon received, but severely modest ones.
• 1:12:23
  Speaker 16: Latine assigned, Oh, that's presupposed you, to be sure, would
• 1:12:29
  Speaker 16: ne'er desire any other?
• 1:12:32
  Speaker 12: We had contrived to meet to night, the sweetest hours
• 1:12:35
  Speaker 12: of love. And there was I one evening in her lodging,
• 1:12:39
  Speaker 12: twas as I remember, yes, twas on the second of December.
• 1:12:44
  Speaker 12: That's the very night I was caught.
• 1:12:46
  Speaker 16: Latine assigned Tis Strange, a fellow of his wit, to
• 1:12:51
  Speaker 16: be trepanned into a marriage.
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  Speaker 12: The father supped abroad that night, which made us think
• 1:12:57
  Speaker 12: ourselves secure, but coming home by accidents soon then we expected.
• 1:13:01
  Speaker 12: We heard him at the door. How did that noise
• 1:13:03
  Speaker 12: surprise us? She hid me behind the bed, then lets
• 1:13:07
  Speaker 12: him in.
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  Speaker 14: I tremble for the poor young lady, pray go on?
• 1:13:13
  Speaker 14: How did she recover herself?
• 1:13:15
  Speaker 12: She fell into the prettiest, artful little tales to divert
• 1:13:19
  Speaker 12: him and hide a discomposure, which she interrupted by telling
• 1:13:22
  Speaker 12: her she must be married suddenly to one proposed to
• 1:13:25
  Speaker 12: him that evening. This was to me.
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  Speaker 14: Dagger's but she she.
• 1:13:30
  Speaker 12: By general answers in that case, managed it so well
• 1:13:34
  Speaker 12: that he was going down when instantly in my watch
• 1:13:37
  Speaker 12: and my pocket struck ten he turned some short on
• 1:13:40
  Speaker 12: his The mazed daughter asked where she had it. She
• 1:13:44
  Speaker 12: cried her cousin Martha sent it out of the country
• 1:13:47
  Speaker 12: to be mended for her. He said he would take
• 1:13:49
  Speaker 12: care on she comes to me. But as I was
• 1:13:52
  Speaker 12: giving it her, the string was so entangled in the
• 1:13:54
  Speaker 12: cock of a pistol I always had about me on
• 1:13:56
  Speaker 12: those occasions that my haste to disengage a fire to
• 1:13:59
  Speaker 12: talk off my mistress swoons away. The father ran out,
• 1:14:04
  Speaker 12: crying out murder. I thought her dead. Feared his return,
• 1:14:08
  Speaker 12: which he soon did with two boisterous rogues, his sons,
• 1:14:11
  Speaker 12: and his whole family of servants. I would have made
• 1:14:14
  Speaker 12: my escape, but they opposed me with drawn swords. I
• 1:14:18
  Speaker 12: wounded both, but a lusty wench with a fire shovel
• 1:14:22
  Speaker 12: at one blow struck down my sword and broke it
• 1:14:25
  Speaker 12: all to pieces.
• 1:14:26
  Speaker 14: But still the poor young lady.
• 1:14:29
  Speaker 12: Here was I seazed. Meantime, Matilda wakes from her trance
• 1:14:33
  Speaker 12: beholding me, held like a ruffian. Both her brother's bleeding
• 1:14:38
  Speaker 12: she was returning to it. What should I do? I
• 1:14:41
  Speaker 12: saw the hoary father and the divided sorrow for his
• 1:14:43
  Speaker 12: son's lies and daughter's honor, of both which she thought
• 1:14:47
  Speaker 12: me the invader. She, with pitying, dying and reproaching looks,
• 1:14:52
  Speaker 12: beseeched me and taught me what I owed. A constant
• 1:14:55
  Speaker 12: love I yielded, Sir, I own, I yielded to the justice,
• 1:15:00
  Speaker 12: terror of their family, resentment, and my mistress more dreadful
• 1:15:04
  Speaker 12: of braining. Thus am I, sir, the martyr of an
• 1:15:07
  Speaker 12: honest passion.
• 1:15:09
  Speaker 14: What I most blame is that you concealed it from
• 1:15:13
  Speaker 14: your best friend, how instantly to Penelope's father and make
• 1:15:18
  Speaker 14: my apology. He is my friend.
• 1:15:22
  Speaker 4: Exit this marriage strangely surprised me.
• 1:15:27
  Speaker 12: Why did you believe it too? As well as the
• 1:15:30
  Speaker 12: old gentleman? Why didn't I did excellently?
• 1:15:35
  Speaker 4: What the watch the pistol lady swooning her pitying upbreeding
• 1:15:41
  Speaker 4: look al chimera.
• 1:15:44
  Speaker 12: Nothing but downright wit to keep myself safe for Victoria.
• 1:15:49
  Speaker 4: May I desire one favor?
• 1:15:51
  Speaker 12: What can I deny them? My privado?
• 1:15:54
  Speaker 4: Only that you'd give me some little secret hint when
• 1:15:57
  Speaker 4: next you are going to be witty, but a jumble
• 1:16:02
  Speaker 4: particular so readily tis impossible you could, I believe, at
• 1:16:08
  Speaker 4: the beginning of your tale know the ending.
• 1:16:10
  Speaker 12: Yet these are gifts, child, mere gifts tis not to
• 1:16:15
  Speaker 12: be learnt the skill of lying, except humor, wit, invention,
• 1:16:19
  Speaker 12: presence of mind, retention, memory, circumspection, et cetera, were to
• 1:16:24
  Speaker 12: be obtained by industry. You must not hum, nor hure nor.
• 1:16:28
  Speaker 1: Blanchefort Betty entering?
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  Speaker 4: Who have we got here?
• 1:16:34
  Speaker 9: May I be so bold as to crave the liberty
• 1:16:37
  Speaker 9: to ask your name?
• 1:16:38
  Speaker 12: My bright handmaid, my little she gannymeat thou charming heavy,
• 1:16:44
  Speaker 12: You may ask me my name, for I won't tell
• 1:16:47
  Speaker 12: it to you till you do, because I'd have the
• 1:16:50
  Speaker 12: more words with you.
• 1:16:52
  Speaker 9: Are not you, mister Bookwit?
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  Speaker 12: The very same, my dear there.
• 1:16:57
  Speaker 9: Then giving him letter He he's a mighty pretty man.
• 1:17:01
  Speaker 1: Except Betty Young Bookquet reading, you.
• 1:17:06
  Speaker 12: May wonder your person and character this evening near Rosamond's
• 1:17:11
  Speaker 12: pond on the other side of the park, Victoria, Oh
• 1:17:16
  Speaker 12: the happiness. What has become of the girl? Oh? Lauten, Lauten,
• 1:17:21
  Speaker 12: ask me fifty questions all at once? What heals me?
• 1:17:24
  Speaker 12: Why this joy? Who is this from?
• 1:17:27
  Speaker 6: Oh?
• 1:17:28
  Speaker 12: I could die methings this moment, lest there should be
• 1:17:31
  Speaker 12: in fate some future ill to dash my present joy.
• 1:17:35
  Speaker 12: Why Jack, why dost not ask me what's the matter?
• 1:17:39
  Speaker 4: If you'd but give me leave?
• 1:17:41
  Speaker 12: No, do not speak, let me talk. All I fain
• 1:17:45
  Speaker 12: would celebrate my fair one's praise her every beauty. But
• 1:17:49
  Speaker 12: the mind's too full to utter anything that is articulate,
• 1:17:52
  Speaker 12: and will give way to nothing but mere names and interjections.
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  Speaker 12: Her Victoria, Victoria, Victoria, my Victoria.
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  Speaker 4: Read there well, I own this, subscribed to Victoria. But
• 1:18:08
  Speaker 4: still I am afraid of mistakes.
• 1:18:10
  Speaker 12: No, kneel down and ask forgiveness. You don't believe that
• 1:18:15
  Speaker 12: she that would not speak to me would write. But
• 1:18:18
  Speaker 12: after all raptures and ecstasies, pretty step after the maid,
• 1:18:22
  Speaker 12: learn what you can of a fortune, and so forth
• 1:18:24
  Speaker 12: get interest to be admitted another time.
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  Speaker 1: Exit lateen.
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  Speaker 3: Enter Frederick, sir, your servant, yours, sir, have you business
• 1:18:35
  Speaker 3: with me? This paper speaks it, young beer.
• 1:18:38
  Speaker 1: Quit reading.
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  Speaker 12: I'm a friend. You've made me your mortal enemy with
• 1:18:43
  Speaker 12: your sword. I expect satisfaction tomorrow morning at six in
• 1:18:47
  Speaker 12: Hyde Park, love More. Do you know the contents of
• 1:18:51
  Speaker 12: this letter?
• 1:18:52
  Speaker 3: Yes, sir, it is a challenge from love.
• 1:18:54
  Speaker 12: More are you to be a second?
• 1:18:58
  Speaker 3: I offered it, but he will meet you.
• 1:19:01
  Speaker 12: The fewer, the better cheer.
• 1:19:03
  Speaker 3: You are very pleasant, sir.
• 1:19:05
  Speaker 12: My good humor was ever challenged. Proof I will be very.
• 1:19:08
  Speaker 1: Punctual, Except Frederick.
• 1:19:11
  Speaker 12: I fall into business very fast. There, thou dear, Let
• 1:19:15
  Speaker 12: her of love be there, thou of hatred. There men
• 1:19:20
  Speaker 12: of business must sult their papers. I fear he saw
• 1:19:24
  Speaker 12: me put up two letters enter latein Oh Jack more Adventures.
• 1:19:30
  Speaker 12: Another lady has writ let's see it. No always tender
• 1:19:35
  Speaker 12: of reputation, she is of quality. A gentleman usher came
• 1:19:39
  Speaker 12: with it. I can't believe there's anything in that old
• 1:19:42
  Speaker 12: women being wrapped in one's mother's smock to be thus lucky.
• 1:19:46
  Speaker 12: I suppose I was used like other children. They clapped
• 1:19:50
  Speaker 12: me on a skull cap, swathed me hard, played me
• 1:19:53
  Speaker 12: in arms, and showed me London. But however it comes about,
• 1:19:57
  Speaker 12: I have strange luck with the women.
• 1:19:59
  Speaker 16: But let us see this letter, young bookquet reading.
• 1:20:04
  Speaker 12: No, no a woman of condition to go so far.
• 1:20:08
  Speaker 12: But indeed your passion, your wit, my page at the
• 1:20:12
  Speaker 12: backstairs secrecy, and your veracity.
• 1:20:16
  Speaker 4: There her ladyship neck did PACs. I'll be as humorous
• 1:20:20
  Speaker 4: and frolic as you. You pert fellows are the only successful.
• 1:20:25
  Speaker 12: Well said lad And as mister Bay said, now the
• 1:20:29
  Speaker 12: plot thickens upon us. We'll spend our time as gaily
• 1:20:32
  Speaker 12: as the best of them, and all of it in laugh.
• 1:20:35
  Speaker 12: For since through all the race of man we find
• 1:20:38
  Speaker 12: each to some darling passion is inclined, Let love be
• 1:20:42
  Speaker 12: still the bias of my mind, Excellge.
• 1:20:48
  Speaker 1: End of Act two, Act three, after Lying Lover or
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  Speaker 1: The Ladies Friendship by Richard Steele. This is a LibriVox recording.
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  Speaker 1: the third scene one, Victoria's lodgings, Covent Garden. Enter Victoria
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  Speaker 1: and Betty.
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  Speaker 15: This was, indeed, Betty a very diverting accident that I
• 1:21:28
  Speaker 15: should be employed to write to her lover. Now I
• 1:21:32
  Speaker 15: can't but think how angry my cousin pen is. She frets.
• 1:21:37
  Speaker 15: I warrant at her very looking glass, which used to
• 1:21:40
  Speaker 15: be her comforter, upon all occasions.
• 1:21:43
  Speaker 9: I would not be in poor mistress Lettuce's place, for
• 1:21:46
  Speaker 9: all the world nothing to be sure can please today?
• 1:21:50
  Speaker 9: Did you mind how she nestled and fumed inwardly to
• 1:21:52
  Speaker 9: see your ladyship look so well? Nay, indeed, madam, you
• 1:21:56
  Speaker 9: were in high beauty.
• 1:21:58
  Speaker 15: Yet I must confess I was myself a little discomposed.
• 1:22:03
  Speaker 15: I was ashamed for my friend, and then to see
• 1:22:06
  Speaker 15: her show such a regard for a fellow.
• 1:22:09
  Speaker 9: But I swear, were I to have my will, you
• 1:22:11
  Speaker 9: should be always angry at me. It gives your ladyship
• 1:22:14
  Speaker 9: such a pretty fierceness and a quick spirit to your features,
• 1:22:17
  Speaker 9: not that you want it.
• 1:22:18
  Speaker 15: Yet it adds there are some people very unhappily pretend
• 1:22:22
  Speaker 15: to fire and life. There's poor, stupid, insipid lady fad
• 1:22:27
  Speaker 15: has heard of the word spleen and distaste and sets
• 1:22:32
  Speaker 15: up for being out of humor with that unmeaning face
• 1:22:35
  Speaker 15: of hers.
• 1:22:36
  Speaker 9: You're in a fine humor, madam.
• 1:22:38
  Speaker 15: Her ladyship's physician prescribed anger to her, upon which she
• 1:22:42
  Speaker 15: comes in public with her eyes staringly open. This she
• 1:22:47
  Speaker 15: designs for vivacity and gapes about like a wandering country lady.
• 1:22:52
  Speaker 15: She pretends to be a remarker and looks at everybody,
• 1:22:56
  Speaker 15: but alas she wants it here and no not that
• 1:23:01
  Speaker 15: to see is no more to look than to go
• 1:23:04
  Speaker 15: is to walk. For you must know, Beddy, every child
• 1:23:07
  Speaker 15: can see, but 'tis an observing creature that can look,
• 1:23:11
  Speaker 15: as every pretty girl can go. But chis a fine
• 1:23:14
  Speaker 15: woman that walks. Ha. But by the way, there's missus Penelope,
• 1:23:19
  Speaker 15: methinks does neither. I have a kindness for her, but
• 1:23:24
  Speaker 15: she has no gesture in the least, my dear enter Penelope.
• 1:23:30
  Speaker 1: Well, my dear Betty, aside.
• 1:23:34
  Speaker 9: How civilly people of quality hate one another?
• 1:23:37
  Speaker 8: Well, my dear, were you not strangely surprised to see
• 1:23:41
  Speaker 8: that this young boquich should be the soldier we met
• 1:23:43
  Speaker 8: this morning.
• 1:23:44
  Speaker 15: The confident, lying creature. Indeed, I wondered you'd suffer him
• 1:23:49
  Speaker 15: to entertain you so long.
• 1:23:51
  Speaker 8: You must know, Madam, he's married too at Oxford, the
• 1:23:55
  Speaker 8: ugly wretch.
• 1:23:57
  Speaker 15: I think him downright disagreeable. A sign, but perhaps this
• 1:24:01
  Speaker 15: is a fetch of hers. He had no married.
• 1:24:04
  Speaker 2: Look.
• 1:24:05
  Speaker 8: Yet, I am resolved to go to your excitation, if
• 1:24:07
  Speaker 8: it be, but to confront the coxkin and laugh at
• 1:24:10
  Speaker 8: his lie. Such fellows should be made to know themselves,
• 1:24:14
  Speaker 8: and that they're understood.
• 1:24:16
  Speaker 15: I'll wait upon you, my dear, assigned. She's very prettily dressed.
• 1:24:23
  Speaker 15: But indeed, my dear, you shan't go with your hood
• 1:24:25
  Speaker 15: sell it makes you look abominably with your head so forward.
• 1:24:30
  Speaker 1: There displacing her head.
• 1:24:34
  Speaker 15: That's something you had, a fearful, silly blushing. Look now
• 1:24:38
  Speaker 15: you command all hearts. Thank you, my dear, your servants dearest, that's.
• 1:24:44
  Speaker 8: Alas madam who patched you to day. Let me see
• 1:24:48
  Speaker 8: it is the hardest thing in dress, I may say
• 1:24:51
  Speaker 8: without vanity, I know a little of it. That's so
• 1:24:54
  Speaker 8: low on the cheek, pulps the flash too much. Hold still,
• 1:24:57
  Speaker 8: my dear, I'll place it just by your eye aside.
• 1:25:01
  Speaker 8: Now she downrightes squints.
• 1:25:04
  Speaker 15: There's nothing like a sincere friend, for one is not
• 1:25:07
  Speaker 15: a judge of one's self. I have a patch box
• 1:25:10
  Speaker 15: about me, Hold, my dear, that gives you a sadd air,
• 1:25:14
  Speaker 15: that large one near your temples.
• 1:25:17
  Speaker 8: People perhaps don't mind these things. But if it be true,
• 1:25:20
  Speaker 8: as the poet finally sings, that all the passions in
• 1:25:23
  Speaker 8: the features are, we may show or hide 'em as
• 1:25:26
  Speaker 8: we know how to affix these pretty artificial mals.
• 1:25:30
  Speaker 15: And so catch lovers and puzzle physiognomy.
• 1:25:33
  Speaker 8: Tis true, then pray, my dear, let me put a
• 1:25:37
  Speaker 8: little disdain in your face, for we'll plague this fop
• 1:25:41
  Speaker 8: that that your forehead does it hold?
• 1:25:44
  Speaker 15: My dear, I'll give indifference for him. A patch just
• 1:25:48
  Speaker 15: at the point of your lip exactly shows it, and
• 1:25:51
  Speaker 15: that you're dumb to all applications.
• 1:25:53
  Speaker 1: Penelope, a sign you wish.
• 1:25:56
  Speaker 8: I would be there, My dear dear Madam, your hair
• 1:26:01
  Speaker 8: is not half powdered. Betty. Bring the powder box to
• 1:26:05
  Speaker 8: your lady. It gives one a clean look, though your
• 1:26:08
  Speaker 8: complexion doesn't want it to enliven it.
• 1:26:11
  Speaker 15: Oh, fuy this from you, but I know you won't
• 1:26:14
  Speaker 15: flatter me. You are too much my friend.
• 1:26:17
  Speaker 8: Now, madam, you shall see powder, sir.
• 1:26:21
  Speaker 1: A sign.
• 1:26:23
  Speaker 8: Now she looks like a sprite.
• 1:26:26
  Speaker 15: Thank you, my dear. We'll take a hack. Our maids
• 1:26:29
  Speaker 15: shall go with us. Come, dear friend, excelluned arm in arm.
• 1:26:36
  Speaker 9: Pray, Madam Lettuce, be pleased to go on.
• 1:26:39
  Speaker 10: Indeed, Madame Betty, I must beg your pardon.
• 1:26:43
  Speaker 1: I am at home, dear Madam Lettuce.
• 1:26:45
  Speaker 10: Well, Madam, this is unkind I don't use you with
• 1:26:49
  Speaker 10: this ceremony.
• 1:26:52
  Speaker 1: Excelluned, Scene two covened garden, Enter young buquet and lateene
• 1:27:00
  Speaker 1: after a flourish.
• 1:27:02
  Speaker 12: Victoria, Victoria, victorya.
• 1:27:08
  Speaker 4: Make way, make way by your leave, stand by Victoria
• 1:27:14
  Speaker 4: for a mossam resonare doses. I'm really da siloas well.
• 1:27:20
  Speaker 12: Said Jack. Let me see any of your sparks besides myself.
• 1:27:24
  Speaker 12: Keep such an equipage. I didn't question. But in a
• 1:27:27
  Speaker 12: little time I should be a finer fob than the
• 1:27:29
  Speaker 12: town as yet seen. Oh my lackeys shall be linguists
• 1:27:34
  Speaker 12: as thou art, while as I ride immortal steeds. How
• 1:27:37
  Speaker 12: my horses stare at me? They see I am a
• 1:27:41
  Speaker 12: very new sort of bow.
• 1:27:43
  Speaker 4: This is rare, the having this noise of music. But
• 1:27:48
  Speaker 4: won't it be reckoned a disturbance?
• 1:27:51
  Speaker 12: No? No, it is a usual gallantry here. But the
• 1:27:55
  Speaker 12: vocal is an elegance hardly known before me? Here? Who
• 1:27:59
  Speaker 12: am the found accomplished rules of which i'll institute an order.
• 1:28:03
  Speaker 12: All coxcombs of learning and puts shall after me be
• 1:28:06
  Speaker 12: called bookwets. A sect will soon be more numerous and
• 1:28:10
  Speaker 12: in more credit than your Aristotelians, Platonists and academics.
• 1:28:15
  Speaker 4: Sir, twill be extraordinary, And you are really a wise person.
• 1:28:20
  Speaker 4: You put your theory of philosophy into practice. It is
• 1:28:24
  Speaker 4: not with you a dead letter, oh.
• 1:28:27
  Speaker 12: Sir, No, The design of learning is for the use
• 1:28:30
  Speaker 12: of life. Therefore I'll settle a family very suddenly and
• 1:28:34
  Speaker 12: show my literature in economy as how pray, I'll have
• 1:28:39
  Speaker 12: four peripatetic footmen, two followers of Aristipus for the lats
• 1:28:45
  Speaker 12: de chambre, and an epicurean cook with an hermetical chemist,
• 1:28:50
  Speaker 12: who are good only at making fires for my scullion.
• 1:28:53
  Speaker 12: And then I think all is disposed, But methinks this
• 1:28:57
  Speaker 12: fair one takes state upon her. But I none of
• 1:29:00
  Speaker 12: your languishes. I am not known in town. And if
• 1:29:03
  Speaker 12: I misbehave tis but being sent back again to my
• 1:29:06
  Speaker 12: small beer and three half benny commons. And I, like
• 1:29:10
  Speaker 12: many other beaux, only blazed and vanished.
• 1:29:13
  Speaker 4: But you know I love music immoderately. How do you
• 1:29:17
  Speaker 4: dispose your entertainment? Let em begin well.
• 1:29:21
  Speaker 12: Give me but leave. The fiddles will certainly attract the ladies,
• 1:29:24
  Speaker 12: I mean the nymphs who have grottos round this enchanted
• 1:29:27
  Speaker 12: forest in the first place. You intelligences that move this vehicle.
• 1:29:32
  Speaker 12: How the fellows stare.
• 1:29:34
  Speaker 2: Goody honor speak to us in English?
• 1:29:38
  Speaker 12: Why then, you, chairman. Wherever I move, you are to
• 1:29:41
  Speaker 12: follow me. For I mean to strut shine through the
• 1:29:44
  Speaker 12: dusk of the evening, and look as like a lazy
• 1:29:47
  Speaker 12: town fool as I can to charm em well.
• 1:29:51
  Speaker 4: But the music.
• 1:29:52
  Speaker 12: But remember ye sons of Phoebus, brethren of the string
• 1:29:57
  Speaker 12: and liar, that is to say, ye fiddlers, let me
• 1:30:00
  Speaker 12: have a flourish as I now direct. When I lift
• 1:30:03
  Speaker 12: up my cane, let it be marshal. If I but
• 1:30:06
  Speaker 12: throw myself just forward on it, or but raise it smoothly,
• 1:30:10
  Speaker 12: sigh all for love to show, as I think fit,
• 1:30:13
  Speaker 12: that I would die or fight for her. You see
• 1:30:16
  Speaker 12: me bow too well, then strike up.
• 1:30:20
  Speaker 7: Venus has left her Grecian aisles with all her gaudy
• 1:30:25
  Speaker 7: train of little love, soft cares and smiles on my
• 1:30:30
  Speaker 7: larger breast to reign ye tender herds, and listening, dear,
• 1:30:36
  Speaker 7: forget your food, forget your fear. The bright Victoria will
• 1:30:41
  Speaker 7: be here. The savages about me throng moved with the
• 1:30:46
  Speaker 7: passion of my song, and think Victoria stays too long?
• 1:30:52
  Speaker 12: This for you, Jack, is not that like a fine
• 1:30:55
  Speaker 12: gentleman that writes for his own diversion.
• 1:30:58
  Speaker 4: And nobody's else.
• 1:31:00
  Speaker 12: Now I warrant one of your common sparks would have stamped, fretted,
• 1:31:04
  Speaker 12: and cried what the devil fool, chilted, abused while I
• 1:31:09
  Speaker 12: in meter to show you how well nothing at all
• 1:31:12
  Speaker 12: may be made to run the savages about me throng
• 1:31:16
  Speaker 12: moved with the passion of my song, and think Victoria
• 1:31:20
  Speaker 12: stays too.
• 1:31:21
  Speaker 4: Long, I begin to be one of those savages.
• 1:31:26
  Speaker 1: Enter Victoria, Penelope, Lattis, and Betty.
• 1:31:31
  Speaker 15: We had better have stayed where we were and listened
• 1:31:33
  Speaker 15: to that charming echo than have come in search of
• 1:31:36
  Speaker 15: that liar.
• 1:31:38
  Speaker 1: Do you see yonder, young Booquit gives the sign and
• 1:31:41
  Speaker 1: sings himself.
• 1:31:44
  Speaker 12: Thus, Madam, have I spent my time almost ever since
• 1:31:48
  Speaker 12: I saw you repeated your name to the woods, the
• 1:31:53
  Speaker 12: dais and echoing groves.
• 1:31:57
  Speaker 8: Pretty observam.
• 1:31:58
  Speaker 12: Now he begins, I had not time to carve your
• 1:32:02
  Speaker 12: name on every tree. But that's a melancholy employment, not
• 1:32:08
  Speaker 12: for those lovers that are favored with Isaac nation.
• 1:32:12
  Speaker 15: Prilly cousin, do you talk to him in my name?
• 1:32:15
  Speaker 15: I will be silent till I see farther.
• 1:32:17
  Speaker 8: The spring is now so forward that it must indeed
• 1:32:20
  Speaker 8: be attributed to your passion that you are not in
• 1:32:22
  Speaker 8: the field.
• 1:32:23
  Speaker 12: You to me justice, madam in that thought, for I
• 1:32:27
  Speaker 12: am strangely pestered to be there. Well. The French are
• 1:32:31
  Speaker 12: the most industrious people in the world. I had a
• 1:32:34
  Speaker 12: letter from one of their generals that shall be nameless.
• 1:32:37
  Speaker 12: It came over by the way of Holland, with an
• 1:32:40
  Speaker 12: offer of very great terms if I would but barely
• 1:32:43
  Speaker 12: send my opinion in the use of pikes, about which
• 1:32:46
  Speaker 12: he tells me. Their prince and generals have lately held
• 1:32:49
  Speaker 12: a grand court martial.
• 1:32:51
  Speaker 8: Ha ha.
• 1:32:53
  Speaker 4: These cunning things keep still together to puzzle us. I'll
• 1:32:56
  Speaker 4: alarm him, sir, one word.
• 1:32:59
  Speaker 15: Come, come. We all have no whispering, no messages at present.
• 1:33:03
  Speaker 15: Some other ladies have sent, but they shan't have you
• 1:33:06
  Speaker 15: from us.
• 1:33:07
  Speaker 4: Ha ha.
• 1:33:09
  Speaker 12: I hold myself obliged to be of the same humor
• 1:33:12
  Speaker 12: ladies are in hah. Now, pray do me the favor
• 1:33:16
  Speaker 12: to tell me what I laughed at.
• 1:33:18
  Speaker 8: Why you must know you're talking of the French and
• 1:33:21
  Speaker 8: the war puts us in mind of a young Coxcomb
• 1:33:23
  Speaker 8: that came last night from Oxford. Calls himself soldier, treats ladies,
• 1:33:27
  Speaker 8: fights battles, raises jealousies with downright lies of his own inventing.
• 1:33:33
  Speaker 12: That must be an impudent young rascal, certainly, ha.
• 1:33:38
  Speaker 15: Nay, this is beyond comparison.
• 1:33:40
  Speaker 12: I can't conceive how one of those sneaking academics could
• 1:33:43
  Speaker 12: personate such a character. For we bred in camps have
• 1:33:47
  Speaker 12: a behavior that shows we are used to acting before crowds.
• 1:33:51
  Speaker 8: To certainly so. Nay, he has been confronted with it
• 1:33:55
  Speaker 8: as plainly as I speak to you, and yet not
• 1:33:57
  Speaker 8: blushed for it, but carried on as if he knew
• 1:34:00
  Speaker 8: not the.
• 1:34:00
  Speaker 14: Man that may be.
• 1:34:02
  Speaker 12: Tis want of knowing themselves makes those cockscomb so confident.
• 1:34:06
  Speaker 8: The faithless shameless. Well, then to see if possible such
• 1:34:11
  Speaker 8: a one may be brought to that sense. I tell
• 1:34:13
  Speaker 8: you this worthy hearer two days ago was in hanging
• 1:34:16
  Speaker 8: sleeves at Oxford, and is called mister Brookwit.
• 1:34:21
  Speaker 12: Well, or was it not well enough carried?
• 1:34:24
  Speaker 15: Huh?
• 1:34:25
  Speaker 12: I knew you well enough, and you knew me before
• 1:34:28
  Speaker 12: you writ to me of mister Buckwit's son, that I
• 1:34:32
  Speaker 12: fell into that way of talking purely to divertue. I
• 1:34:35
  Speaker 12: knew you a woman of wit and spirit, and that
• 1:34:37
  Speaker 12: acting that part would at least show I had fire
• 1:34:40
  Speaker 12: in me and wished myself what I would be half
• 1:34:42
  Speaker 12: an age to serve and please you suffer and camps,
• 1:34:46
  Speaker 12: all the vicissitudes of burning heats and sharp afflicting colds.
• 1:34:50
  Speaker 15: Look you, sir, I shall tell missus Matilda new Town,
• 1:34:54
  Speaker 15: your spouse at Oxford, what you are saying to another lady.
• 1:34:58
  Speaker 8: Prilly cousin. Never give yourself the trouble to meddle in
• 1:35:02
  Speaker 8: such a work one hardly knows how to speak it
• 1:35:04
  Speaker 8: to a gentleman. But don't touch the affairs of so
• 1:35:07
  Speaker 8: impuded a liar.
• 1:35:08
  Speaker 12: Ha ha ha, Why imagam? Have they told you of
• 1:35:12
  Speaker 12: the marriage too?
• 1:35:13
  Speaker 3: Well?
• 1:35:14
  Speaker 12: I was hard put to it there. I had liked
• 1:35:16
  Speaker 12: to have been gravel. Faith. You are more beholden to
• 1:35:19
  Speaker 12: me for that than anything. Had it not been for that,
• 1:35:23
  Speaker 12: they married me to Mistress Penelope old Getwell's granddaughter, the
• 1:35:27
  Speaker 12: great fortune. But I refused her for you a sign?
• 1:35:32
  Speaker 12: Who are a greater?
• 1:35:34
  Speaker 4: Sir?
• 1:35:34
  Speaker 7: Sir?
• 1:35:35
  Speaker 4: Pray sir? One word?
• 1:35:37
  Speaker 1: Stand off, Sarah.
• 1:35:39
  Speaker 15: You shan't come near him, none of your dumb signs.
• 1:35:43
  Speaker 8: Then you have refused Penelope. They're a great fortune. What
• 1:35:47
  Speaker 8: could you disliken her?
• 1:35:48
  Speaker 12: The whole woman, her person, nor carriage? Please, me. She
• 1:35:53
  Speaker 12: is one of those women of condition who do and
• 1:35:56
  Speaker 12: say what they please with an assured air, and think
• 1:35:59
  Speaker 12: that enough only to be called fine mistress. Such a
• 1:36:02
  Speaker 12: one's manner.
• 1:36:04
  Speaker 8: This is not to be endured. I do assure you, sir,
• 1:36:08
  Speaker 8: missus Penelope has refused your betters.
• 1:36:11
  Speaker 12: I don't much value my betters in her judgment, but
• 1:36:13
  Speaker 12: I am sorry to see you concerned for her. When
• 1:36:16
  Speaker 12: I have been at church when I first saw you,
• 1:36:19
  Speaker 12: I've seen the gay giddy thing in a gallery of
• 1:36:21
  Speaker 12: watching eyes to make curtsies. She's indeed a very ceremonious
• 1:36:26
  Speaker 12: churchwoman and never is guilty of a sin of a
• 1:36:28
  Speaker 12: mission to any lady of quality with an eye shot.
• 1:36:31
  Speaker 12: In short, I don't like the woman and would go
• 1:36:34
  Speaker 12: to Tunis or a Leppo for a wife before I'd
• 1:36:37
  Speaker 12: take her.
• 1:36:38
  Speaker 15: I cannot bear this of my friend. If you go on, Sir,
• 1:36:42
  Speaker 15: at this rate, Tunis or Aleppo are the properest places
• 1:36:47
  Speaker 15: for you to show your gallantry. In two will never
• 1:36:49
  Speaker 15: be received by any here aside. I hope she believes me.
• 1:36:55
  Speaker 8: The ladies in the right one it who can confide
• 1:36:58
  Speaker 8: in a known comment, impostor.
• 1:37:01
  Speaker 12: Madam, how can you use a man that loves you
• 1:37:04
  Speaker 12: so unjustly. But call me what you will, liar, cheat,
• 1:37:08
  Speaker 12: impostor do, But add your servant, and I am satisfied.
• 1:37:13
  Speaker 12: I have, indeed, Madam, run through many shifts and hopes
• 1:37:16
  Speaker 12: to gain you, and could be contented to run through
• 1:37:19
  Speaker 12: all the shapes and Ovid's metamorphosies. Could I but return
• 1:37:23
  Speaker 12: to this on my bend and knees of my fair
• 1:37:26
  Speaker 12: one's humble servant, pray?
• 1:37:29
  Speaker 15: Let us leave him as you told me. I wonder
• 1:37:32
  Speaker 15: you can suffer him to entertain you so long? Leave him,
• 1:37:36
  Speaker 15: Let him kneel to the trees and call to the woods.
• 1:37:38
  Speaker 1: If he will assigned.
• 1:37:41
  Speaker 15: Oh, I could brain him, how ugly he looks kneeling
• 1:37:45
  Speaker 15: to her.
• 1:37:46
  Speaker 8: No, I'll stay to Placimore. But what opinion can I
• 1:37:50
  Speaker 8: have this sudden passion? You hardly know me. I believe
• 1:37:53
  Speaker 8: all my circumstances.
• 1:37:55
  Speaker 12: No, no, not I I don't know you. Your mother
• 1:37:59
  Speaker 12: was not old Man Sterling's daughter, your father mister Phillips
• 1:38:03
  Speaker 12: of Graysin, who had an estate and never practiced. You
• 1:38:07
  Speaker 12: are not a brother killed at Landon. Your sister Diana
• 1:38:10
  Speaker 12: is not dead, nor you are not co heiress with
• 1:38:13
  Speaker 12: miss Moley. No, madam, I don't know you no, nor
• 1:38:17
  Speaker 12: love you.
• 1:38:19
  Speaker 8: Penelope aside, I wish I had taken her advice and
• 1:38:22
  Speaker 8: going he means her all this while sure this is
• 1:38:26
  Speaker 8: downright fooling. Let's go, my dear, leave him to the woods,
• 1:38:30
  Speaker 8: as you say a sign, I wish twas full of bears.
• 1:38:36
  Speaker 15: No, now I'll stay to plague him.
• 1:38:38
  Speaker 8: No, you shan't stay, sir. We have given ourselves the
• 1:38:42
  Speaker 8: diversion to see you and confront you in your forhoods
• 1:38:45
  Speaker 8: in which you have entangled yourself to that degree you
• 1:38:48
  Speaker 8: know not even the women you pretend to, And therefore, Sir,
• 1:38:51
  Speaker 8: I so far despise you. But if you should come
• 1:38:54
  Speaker 8: after me with your fiddles, I'll have a porter a
• 1:38:57
  Speaker 8: sign ready to let you in.
• 1:39:00
  Speaker 15: I don't know how to threaten a gentleman in that manner,
• 1:39:04
  Speaker 15: but I'm sure I shall never entertain any man that
• 1:39:07
  Speaker 15: has disobliged my friend. While my name's Victoria, exsumed.
• 1:39:12
  Speaker 4: Arm in arm master, methinks these ladies don't understand wit.
• 1:39:18
  Speaker 4: They were very rough with you.
• 1:39:20
  Speaker 12: I they were somewhat dull, but really Victoria discovered herself
• 1:39:24
  Speaker 12: at her going me things agreeably enough.
• 1:39:28
  Speaker 4: I believe they are irrecoverably lost parks on it When
• 1:39:32
  Speaker 4: I gave you so many signs.
• 1:39:34
  Speaker 12: Too well, hang thinking, Let's to the tavern and in
• 1:39:39
  Speaker 12: every glass name and you beauty till I either forget
• 1:39:42
  Speaker 12: or am inspired with some new project to attain her.
• 1:39:46
  Speaker 12: While in a lovely bowl I drown my care, she'll
• 1:39:49
  Speaker 12: cease to be or I to think her fair exceumed.
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  Speaker 1: End of Act three, Act for as The Lying Lover
• 1:40:06
  Speaker 1: or The Lady's Friendship by Richard Steele. This is a
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• 1:40:21
  Speaker 1: Act the fourth scene one Covent Garden, Enter young buquit
• 1:40:27
  Speaker 1: and lutine.
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  Speaker 12: This roebuck is almost my business. Rickby is an honest
• 1:40:34
  Speaker 12: fellow and would not poison us. The wine had good humor,
• 1:40:38
  Speaker 12: mirth and joy in it. My blood beats high in
• 1:40:42
  Speaker 12: phronic What's this, my dear lacky ha?
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  Speaker 4: Why sir? I say, sir, that I am in so noble,
• 1:40:52
  Speaker 4: so exalted a condition that I almost forget that I
• 1:40:57
  Speaker 4: am your honor's footman.
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  Speaker 12: Do but your business well tonight?
• 1:41:03
  Speaker 4: Who says the tongue stutters, legs falter, and eyes fail
• 1:41:08
  Speaker 4: with drink. Tis false, my dear master. My tongue runs
• 1:41:13
  Speaker 4: faster than ever, my legs so brisk and nimble that
• 1:41:18
  Speaker 4: I can't stand still. And my eyes are better than
• 1:41:23
  Speaker 4: they ever were. For I see everything double but the letter,
• 1:41:31
  Speaker 4: the letter I warrant. I give it her.
• 1:41:36
  Speaker 12: Here here, Jack take it.
• 1:41:39
  Speaker 4: Let's come near the lamp. This is the foul copy
• 1:41:45
  Speaker 4: of it that is wrapped in. Let me judge. Now
• 1:41:52
  Speaker 4: I'll be sedate. Let me read it again.
• 1:41:57
  Speaker 12: But you look cursedly fluttered. They'll say you're drunk. Let's see,
• 1:42:03
  Speaker 12: I must comb a wig a little.
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  Speaker 4: I shall be kicked for this letter. Here about the middle.
• 1:42:13
  Speaker 4: You should not talk of joys. So soon you should
• 1:42:17
  Speaker 4: write miserable. A fortnight or three weeks longer, I shall
• 1:42:23
  Speaker 4: be kicked.
• 1:42:25
  Speaker 12: What then? What then? A man of your philosophy must needs.
• 1:42:30
  Speaker 12: Remember the body is but the mere organ of the mind.
• 1:42:35
  Speaker 12: Kicks come under the topic of things without. What shall
• 1:42:39
  Speaker 12: I do for powder? For this smart bomb.
• 1:42:42
  Speaker 1: Combs out his own wig into latins.
• 1:42:45
  Speaker 4: Tis no matter, sir, m Powder comes under the notion
• 1:42:50
  Speaker 4: of things without.
• 1:42:52
  Speaker 12: Oh, but ladies or no philosophers But as you're being
• 1:42:57
  Speaker 12: drubbed these stockings too, you must fix your imagination upon
• 1:43:01
  Speaker 12: some other object, and you may, by force of thought
• 1:43:05
  Speaker 12: suspend your feeling. The body is but the instrument of
• 1:43:09
  Speaker 12: the mind, and you may command an instrument.
• 1:43:13
  Speaker 4: No, sir, I'll have you to know. I'll save my
• 1:43:17
  Speaker 4: carcass by mere dint of eloquence. You have no other orders.
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  Speaker 12: Yeah, yeah, no, but may persuasion grace an elocution hang
• 1:43:30
  Speaker 12: on the lips. But if you can come into Victoria,
• 1:43:35
  Speaker 12: she and the wine you drink will inspire you farewell.
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  Speaker 1: Exit.
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  Speaker 4: This is the enchanted castle which the lady Fair inhabits.
• 1:43:48
  Speaker 4: Enter Simon, mister Simon, sir, I am your most humble servant,
• 1:43:56
  Speaker 4: my dear friend.
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  Speaker 7: Your servant, Good sir. My lady is with Madame Victoria
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  Speaker 7: at cards. She'll lie here to night, but all's ruined.
• 1:44:08
  Speaker 7: They are both huge angry with your master. But Lettuce,
• 1:44:13
  Speaker 7: having taken a fancy to you, mister John, spoke up
• 1:44:17
  Speaker 7: rarely that she did.
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  Speaker 4: Indeed, can't one come to the speech of her.
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  Speaker 7: I was ordered to have a strict eye to the
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  Speaker 7: door and to let nobody in whatsoever. I don't care
• 1:44:30
  Speaker 7: for going up because she'll see I have made a
• 1:44:33
  Speaker 7: cap of one of the finest napkins, for which she'll
• 1:44:37
  Speaker 7: make a plaguey noise.
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  Speaker 4: Nay, nay, you are exactly of my mind. I love
• 1:44:47
  Speaker 4: to avoid anger.
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  Speaker 7: You are a little disguised in drink, though, mister John,
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  Speaker 7: But I ain't seen you not. I go straight up.
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  Speaker 7: Missus Lettuce is in the ante chamber.
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  Speaker 4: I thank you, dear friend. My master bids me upon
• 1:45:07
  Speaker 4: these occasions.
• 1:45:09
  Speaker 1: Gives him money.
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  Speaker 7: I beg your pardon, good, mister John.
• 1:45:13
  Speaker 4: Look you, I am a servant as well as you.
• 1:45:18
  Speaker 4: What do you mean, mister Simon? Come, come, Time's precious.
• 1:45:25
  Speaker 4: When you're a lady is married, all these veils will end.
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  Speaker 15: Nay.
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  Speaker 7: I said beyond your black, mister John, that you were
• 1:45:34
  Speaker 7: very well spoken, well put up briskly. I'll stand your
• 1:45:40
  Speaker 7: friend as much as one servant can to another against
• 1:45:43
  Speaker 7: all masters and mistresses. Whatever.
• 1:45:46
  Speaker 4: Thanks good mister Simon excelled.
• 1:45:52
  Speaker 1: Scene two Penelope's lodgings Atise discovered reading by a small
• 1:45:58
  Speaker 1: candle large ones by her enlightened.
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  Speaker 10: Tis a most sad thing when dare not light a
• 1:46:07
  Speaker 10: large candle, except companies coming in and I scarce can
• 1:46:12
  Speaker 10: see to read this piteous story. Well, in all these
• 1:46:17
  Speaker 10: distresses and misfortunes, the faithful Argulus was renowned all over
• 1:46:23
  Speaker 10: the plains of Arca Arcadia for his loyal and true
• 1:46:31
  Speaker 10: affection to his charming paramour Parthenia. Oh, blessings on his
• 1:46:40
  Speaker 10: heart for it. There are no such suitors nowadays, weeping,
• 1:46:46
  Speaker 10: But I hope they'll come together again at the end
• 1:46:48
  Speaker 10: of the book and marry and have several children.
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  Speaker 15: Oh bless me.
• 1:46:55
  Speaker 10: A man here turns over the leaves. That gentleman's pretty
• 1:47:02
  Speaker 10: man enter, lateine.
• 1:47:06
  Speaker 18: I wonder by what means with that impudence you could
• 1:47:10
  Speaker 18: offer to come upstairs at this time of the night,
• 1:47:14
  Speaker 18: and my lady in the next room. I protest, I'll
• 1:47:18
  Speaker 18: cry out.
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  Speaker 4: Dear missus, lettis my love to you hist.
• 1:47:26
  Speaker 10: Hist I am meetings, however, loath to discover you, because
• 1:47:31
  Speaker 10: servants must do as they a bid for. I know
• 1:47:34
  Speaker 10: it was not to see me, but some message from
• 1:47:37
  Speaker 10: your master. You came about.
• 1:47:40
  Speaker 4: I offered to bring a letter from him in hopes
• 1:47:43
  Speaker 4: to see you, my dearest. I'll not give it at all.
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  Speaker 4: I don't care.
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  Speaker 16: My dearest kisses her hand.
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  Speaker 10: Foh foe, No, you are rude because you know and
• 1:48:00
  Speaker 10: dare not discover you.
• 1:48:02
  Speaker 4: You do what you will?
• 1:48:04
  Speaker 10: Hmm, how he kisses one's hand? I warrant he has
• 1:48:08
  Speaker 10: kissed his batters?
• 1:48:10
  Speaker 15: Pray?
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  Speaker 10: Did you never live in a lady's service?
• 1:48:14
  Speaker 4: No? Nor do I value any of the sex, but
• 1:48:19
  Speaker 4: your dear self, missus lettyce, I would be discovered.
• 1:48:25
  Speaker 16: I'm in rapture in a flame, Penelope within, who's that?
• 1:48:32
  Speaker 1: Hist hist?
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  Speaker 10: Could not you have forced to kiss quietly?
• 1:48:37
  Speaker 1: Madam?
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  Speaker 10: Madam, hold me fast, show the letter. My lady's coming.
• 1:48:44
  Speaker 10: I tell you, sir, she will receive no message at all.
• 1:48:49
  Speaker 10: Get you downstairs, you impudent, Hold me faster. Yet she
• 1:48:54
  Speaker 10: loves your master.
• 1:48:55
  Speaker 1: Enter Penelope and Victoria?
• 1:48:58
  Speaker 8: What can this mean? What fellows that has seized the
• 1:49:01
  Speaker 8: wench met him?
• 1:49:03
  Speaker 10: Madam? He has missed a book with footman drunk and
• 1:49:07
  Speaker 10: test directly stole upstairs with some ill design.
• 1:49:11
  Speaker 15: I fear on me.
• 1:49:13
  Speaker 10: But has a letter from his master to your ladyship.
• 1:49:17
  Speaker 8: Cool up the servants, Simon William Kate alf I'll have
• 1:49:21
  Speaker 8: the rascal well Blossophore's insolence served just as his master deserves.
• 1:49:26
  Speaker 4: Lateen kneeling, Let not those lips more sweet than labor
• 1:49:32
  Speaker 4: of high blayand bees utter a sentence as if a
• 1:49:37
  Speaker 4: Libyan lioness on a mountain gave thee suck, and thou
• 1:49:43
  Speaker 4: wert the obdurate offspring of a rock.
• 1:49:48
  Speaker 15: High Blayan Libyan obdurate, ridiculous. The fellow has got his
• 1:49:55
  Speaker 15: master's can't ha ha.
• 1:49:59
  Speaker 8: I'll put him out. I'll warrant you what will no one.
• 1:50:02
  Speaker 4: Come up there?
• 1:50:04
  Speaker 1: Enter servants with brooms, et cetera.
• 1:50:08
  Speaker 4: Oh, for the force of eloquence to allay and reconcile
• 1:50:12
  Speaker 4: the passion of this angry mansion. I had liked to
• 1:50:16
  Speaker 4: have said plain house, which had been against the laws
• 1:50:20
  Speaker 4: of buskin, in which I would at present talk.
• 1:50:25
  Speaker 8: Did you ever hear anything like this?
• 1:50:28
  Speaker 4: Madam? Shall I beat him? Ah, culinary fair, compose thy rage, Thou,
• 1:50:36
  Speaker 4: whose more skillful hand is still employed in offices for
• 1:50:41
  Speaker 4: the support of nature, Descend not from thyself, thou bright
• 1:50:47
  Speaker 4: cook maid. There sunk again with heightened gusts and quickening
• 1:50:54
  Speaker 4: tastes by you, what would be labor else is made delight,
• 1:51:00
  Speaker 4: Thou great robust, Let not thy hand all read assault
• 1:51:05
  Speaker 4: the life it should rather preserve.
• 1:51:08
  Speaker 10: Good Madam, excuse me, I can't touch him.
• 1:51:12
  Speaker 4: I have bowels for him.
• 1:51:16
  Speaker 7: I wish already's learning all warrant he buys in everything
• 1:51:21
  Speaker 7: wherever he lives.
• 1:51:23
  Speaker 4: This, Madam, this faithful paper tells you the passions of
• 1:51:30
  Speaker 4: the tenderest heart that ever bled for cruel maid, Oh Victoria.
• 1:51:38
  Speaker 4: Did you but hear his sighs, his restless hours, how
• 1:51:44
  Speaker 4: often he repeats, Victoria.
• 1:51:49
  Speaker 18: Oh Victoria.
• 1:51:52
  Speaker 10: Then I find this is none on it meant to
• 1:51:55
  Speaker 10: my lady nor to me. Neither that and men are
• 1:52:01
  Speaker 10: both rogues.
• 1:52:04
  Speaker 8: Receive your seasonable epistle now at midnight.
• 1:52:07
  Speaker 15: He can't mean me to you. He all along addressed
• 1:52:12
  Speaker 15: what I could read it without her.
• 1:52:14
  Speaker 4: To show you.
• 1:52:14
  Speaker 8: I value neither author nor bearer of it. Kick the fellow.
• 1:52:18
  Speaker 4: Down, nay, madam, Since matters must come to extremities, I'd
• 1:52:24
  Speaker 4: rather have the honor of your Ladyship's command to be
• 1:52:28
  Speaker 4: cudgeled by your good family than have it from my master.
• 1:52:33
  Speaker 4: A disappointed lover in his rage will strike stone, walls
• 1:52:37
  Speaker 4: and things inanimate, much more a poor live footman. Therefore
• 1:52:45
  Speaker 4: I must deliver my message. I'll read it to you, ladies,
• 1:52:50
  Speaker 4: for I see you are friends.
• 1:52:53
  Speaker 8: Away with him.
• 1:52:55
  Speaker 4: If the sincerity of my intentions were not get out Paul,
• 1:53:00
  Speaker 4: It's wretch demonstrable in spite of take that these accidents
• 1:53:07
  Speaker 4: in which I have been involved, I should not dare
• 1:53:11
  Speaker 4: to tell you how alternately Joy's raptures, ecstasies, miseries, doubts
• 1:53:18
  Speaker 4: and anxieties do attack abreast devoted to you. Whither shall
• 1:53:26
  Speaker 4: injured virtue fly for shelter when love and honor suffer.
• 1:53:31
  Speaker 4: Thus in me, oh I could rage, call elements about me,
• 1:53:37
  Speaker 4: spout cataracts. Must I be drubbed with broomstaves?
• 1:53:45
  Speaker 1: Exit lateen, Come in my dear again.
• 1:53:49
  Speaker 8: The night is cold.
• 1:53:50
  Speaker 1: Exceed Scene three, Covent Garden. Enter love more and Frederick.
• 1:53:58
  Speaker 2: It is so pleasant to that I will see you
• 1:54:01
  Speaker 2: over the garden to your lodgings.
• 1:54:04
  Speaker 3: That compliment won't pass upon me. Your reason for sauntering
• 1:54:08
  Speaker 3: this way is that tis near penelopees.
• 1:54:10
  Speaker 2: I come for her sake. No should she write beseech
• 1:54:17
  Speaker 2: kneel to me? I think I ne'er should value her more. No,
• 1:54:22
  Speaker 2: I'll be no longer her tool, her jest. She shall
• 1:54:27
  Speaker 2: not dally with a passion. She deserves not.
• 1:54:30
  Speaker 3: To a very well worth this resolution in your power,
• 1:54:33
  Speaker 3: But believe me, friend, one smile one glance that will,
• 1:54:37
  Speaker 3: but doubtful whether favorable would conquer all your indignation faith.
• 1:54:44
  Speaker 2: I'm afraid what you say is true.
• 1:54:47
  Speaker 3: Then strive not to be rationally mad, which you attempt.
• 1:54:50
  Speaker 3: If you think you can at once be at your
• 1:54:52
  Speaker 3: own command and at another's. Would you be master of
• 1:54:56
  Speaker 3: yourself and have a mistress?
• 1:54:58
  Speaker 2: But I can rebel against that mistress.
• 1:55:01
  Speaker 3: Do if you can? Nay, I'm sure tis in your power,
• 1:55:06
  Speaker 3: because tomorrow morning you are to fight arrival for her.
• 1:55:09
  Speaker 3: Because though you know shelides backwards, you can't so much
• 1:55:12
  Speaker 3: as see her chamber window. You must needs walk hither. Well,
• 1:55:17
  Speaker 3: I protest them of your mind. There is methinks now
• 1:55:20
  Speaker 3: a particular amiable gloom about that house, though perhaps to
• 1:55:26
  Speaker 3: ordinary beholders it is exactly like the others.
• 1:55:30
  Speaker 2: You are very witty, I must confess. At your friend's follies,
• 1:55:35
  Speaker 2: mister Frederick.
• 1:55:36
  Speaker 3: I won't then any longer disturb your meditation, but even
• 1:55:40
  Speaker 3: go home like a dull rogue as I am, and
• 1:55:43
  Speaker 3: without love enough to any woman or hatred enough to
• 1:55:46
  Speaker 3: any man to keep me awake, fall fast asleep. I
• 1:55:50
  Speaker 3: was going to wish you rest, but you were above
• 1:55:53
  Speaker 3: all that. If it should rain I advise you not
• 1:55:57
  Speaker 3: to forget that it does. We're going to the piazza.
• 1:56:02
  Speaker 2: Exit tis very well. I'm deservedly laughed at. But the
• 1:56:09
  Speaker 2: door opens.
• 1:56:12
  Speaker 1: Bookwet's footman Lateen crosses the stage.
• 1:56:17
  Speaker 2: The master, I suppose, is there too a watch for
• 1:56:21
  Speaker 2: his coming out. Morning approaches too slowly. He shall not
• 1:56:29
  Speaker 2: sleep tonight except it be forever revenge, Oh jealousy.
• 1:56:37
  Speaker 1: Enter young Booquet with bottle and glass, singing.
• 1:56:42
  Speaker 12: Since poor man, that little little span so long it
• 1:56:49
  Speaker 12: can't last for the future and past is spent. We
• 1:56:55
  Speaker 12: rimos and is with her wuch a full glass? Let's
• 1:57:02
  Speaker 12: that of life pass. He's made up of trouble, a storm,
• 1:57:08
  Speaker 12: though a bubble. There's no bliss but forgetting your care.
• 1:57:15
  Speaker 12: I wonder what's become of Polatin. I wish he had
• 1:57:19
  Speaker 12: a bumper.
• 1:57:20
  Speaker 1: This drinks ah.
• 1:57:23
  Speaker 2: I have no patience to observe his insolent jollity, how
• 1:57:27
  Speaker 2: immoderately joyful. My misery has made him book.
• 1:57:33
  Speaker 12: Wit love more.
• 1:57:36
  Speaker 2: What, sir, are you diverting the thought of tomorrow morning's
• 1:57:40
  Speaker 2: business with midnight riot? Or is it an assignation keeps
• 1:57:45
  Speaker 2: you out of bed?
• 1:57:46
  Speaker 12: Thus late an hour or two till morning is not
• 1:57:50
  Speaker 12: much in either of our lives. Therefore, I must tell
• 1:57:54
  Speaker 12: you now, sir, I am ready for your message.
• 1:57:58
  Speaker 13: Shah.
• 1:57:59
  Speaker 2: The conscious, light and stars are witnesses of.
• 1:58:03
  Speaker 12: I want no witnesses. I have a sword, as you bid.
• 1:58:08
  Speaker 1: Me, meet you, they draw and fight.
• 1:58:13
  Speaker 2: Ah, you've done my business, fools.
• 1:58:21
  Speaker 12: Then I've done what you desired me. But this is
• 1:58:25
  Speaker 12: no place for me.
• 1:58:27
  Speaker 1: Exit, Enter Constable and watchmen?
• 1:58:31
  Speaker 11: Where where was that clashing the swords?
• 1:58:34
  Speaker 4: So ho?
• 1:58:35
  Speaker 11: So you, sir, what are you dead?
• 1:58:39
  Speaker 12: Speak?
• 1:58:39
  Speaker 11: Friend?
• 1:58:40
  Speaker 12: What are you afraid of?
• 1:58:42
  Speaker 11: If you are dead, the law can't take hold of you.
• 1:58:45
  Speaker 1: I beg your pardon, mister Constable, he ought by the
• 1:58:49
  Speaker 1: law to be carried to the roundhouse for being dead
• 1:58:52
  Speaker 1: at this time of night.
• 1:58:54
  Speaker 11: Then away with him, you three and you gentlemen follow
• 1:58:58
  Speaker 11: me to find out who can him?
• 1:59:01
  Speaker 1: Excellent? Enter Simon.
• 1:59:04
  Speaker 7: What's the mag good gentlemen? What's the manner? Oh me,
• 1:59:10
  Speaker 7: mister Lovemore killed? Oh me, My mind gives me. They
• 1:59:15
  Speaker 7: must be about our young lady, does.
• 1:59:18
  Speaker 1: It so, sir? Then you must stay with us. Some
• 1:59:23
  Speaker 1: hold Simon whilst others carry love More off.
• 1:59:28
  Speaker 7: Stay with you, oh Gemini. Indeed, I can't they can't
• 1:59:34
  Speaker 7: be without me our house.
• 1:59:36
  Speaker 14: But they must, friend, harky friend, I hope you'll be hanged.
• 1:59:41
  Speaker 7: I anged, praise sir. Take care of your words, Madame Penelope,
• 1:59:47
  Speaker 7: our young lady's servant, anged, Take care what you say?
• 1:59:53
  Speaker 4: Enter latein whither can this bookwit be gone?
• 1:59:58
  Speaker 7: Oh, mister John, mister Love Moore is killed just now,
• 2:00:03
  Speaker 7: since you went out of our rouse, and you and
• 2:00:06
  Speaker 7: your master must have abandon it.
• 2:00:09
  Speaker 4: How love more killed?
• 2:00:12
  Speaker 1: They seize lateen enter others with young boquet.
• 2:00:18
  Speaker 12: Hands off you dirty midnight rascals. Let me go, or.
• 2:00:23
  Speaker 11: Sir, what were you running so fast for? There's a
• 2:00:27
  Speaker 11: man killed in the garden, and you're a fine gentleman,
• 2:00:31
  Speaker 11: and it must be you. For good, honest people only
• 2:00:35
  Speaker 11: beat one another.
• 2:00:36
  Speaker 4: Nay, nay, we are all in a fair way to
• 2:00:40
  Speaker 4: be fine gentlemen, mister Simon, and.
• 2:00:44
  Speaker 11: All hands off rascals, you said, just now, do you
• 2:00:49
  Speaker 11: know what a constable is.
• 2:00:51
  Speaker 12: The greatest man in the parish when all the rest are.
• 2:00:56
  Speaker 11: Asleep, Come, come, I find they are fellows will to
• 2:01:01
  Speaker 11: the justice and committed. Immediately I'll teach rascals to speak
• 2:01:06
  Speaker 11: high treason against a petty constable.
• 2:01:09
  Speaker 1: Excelled enter Frederick and old bequit.
• 2:01:14
  Speaker 14: You will be surprised at my waiting here for your
• 2:01:17
  Speaker 14: coming home, but you'll pardon me, since it is to
• 2:01:21
  Speaker 14: ease me of an anxiety that keeps me waking.
• 2:01:25
  Speaker 3: I should be very glad if I am capable of
• 2:01:27
  Speaker 3: doing that.
• 2:01:29
  Speaker 14: You knew my tom at Oxford, and I believe we're
• 2:01:33
  Speaker 14: not so hart a student, but you made some acquaintance
• 2:01:36
  Speaker 14: in the town. Therefore, pray tell me do you know
• 2:01:41
  Speaker 14: mister Newton there? His family, descent and fortune?
• 2:01:46
  Speaker 3: What newtown?
• 2:01:48
  Speaker 14: I'll tell you, sir, what you young fellows take most notice
• 2:01:53
  Speaker 14: of old ones for a token that you needs must
• 2:01:56
  Speaker 14: know him by. He's the father of the fair Matilda,
• 2:02:00
  Speaker 14: You're celebrated beauty of that town.
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  Speaker 3: I assure you, sir, I never heard of the father
• 2:02:06
  Speaker 3: or daughter to this instant. Therefore, I'm confident there is
• 2:02:10
  Speaker 3: no such beauty.
• 2:02:12
  Speaker 14: Oh, sir, I know your drift. You're tender of informing me.
• 2:02:16
  Speaker 14: For my son's sake. He told me all himself. I
• 2:02:21
  Speaker 14: know all the progress of his love with a young lady,
• 2:02:25
  Speaker 14: how he was taken in the night in her bedchamber
• 2:02:27
  Speaker 14: by his pistol, going off the family disturbance that was
• 2:02:31
  Speaker 14: raised upon it, which he composed by marrying. I know it.
• 2:02:36
  Speaker 3: All is Tom Bukwitt, then married at Oxford.
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  Speaker 14: He is, indeed, sir. Therefore our affairs are now so
• 2:02:46
  Speaker 14: linked that will be in ill office fall to the
• 2:02:50
  Speaker 14: Newtons and to us to conceal anything from me that
• 2:02:54
  Speaker 14: relates to them.
• 2:02:55
  Speaker 3: A man can't be said to conceal what he does
• 2:02:58
  Speaker 3: not know. But is it seems it was mister Buckwit
• 2:03:01
  Speaker 3: gave you this account himself.
• 2:03:04
  Speaker 14: Yes, sir, I told you, Sir, I had it from himself.
• 2:03:08
  Speaker 3: Then I'm sure there was nothing left out. He never
• 2:03:11
  Speaker 3: tells a story by halves.
• 2:03:14
  Speaker 14: Why then you think my son's a liar.
• 2:03:17
  Speaker 3: Oh fie, sir? But he enlivens a mere narration with
• 2:03:21
  Speaker 3: variety of accidents. To be plain, his discourse gains him
• 2:03:26
  Speaker 3: more applause than credit. You could not, I believe, have
• 2:03:30
  Speaker 3: married your son to a less expensive lady in England
• 2:03:33
  Speaker 3: than this missus Matilda. I'll be sworn you'll avoid all
• 2:03:38
  Speaker 3: the charges of gay dress, high play in stately childbirth.
• 2:03:42
  Speaker 3: Do you understand me, sir?
• 2:03:45
  Speaker 14: I never could see anything in my son that's disingenuous
• 2:03:49
  Speaker 14: to put his aged father to this shame.
• 2:03:52
  Speaker 3: Never fret or grief for it. He told lovemore this morning,
• 2:03:55
  Speaker 3: such a relation of his feasting ladies. And I know
• 2:03:59
  Speaker 3: not what that he has brought a tilt upon his
• 2:04:01
  Speaker 3: hands tomorrow morning. Therefore, keep him at home, out to
• 2:04:06
  Speaker 3: his adversary. So we'll convince him of a fault which
• 2:04:10
  Speaker 3: he has so ill, though not intended consequences.
• 2:04:15
  Speaker 14: You'll highly oblige me, sir. I'll prober you no longer excelled.
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  Speaker 1: Scene four Newgate, Young Booquet Latine Simon Storm with the
• 2:04:30
  Speaker 1: crowd of jailbirds.
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  Speaker 5: I apprehend, sir by mister Turnkey, the gentleman there with
• 2:04:36
  Speaker 5: a broken nose, that you're brought.
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  Speaker 12: In for murder.
• 2:04:40
  Speaker 5: Irony, Sir, I don't question, but twas done like a gentleman.
• 2:04:44
  Speaker 12: I hope it will appear.
• 2:04:45
  Speaker 5: So I come my thea sir, to your acquaintance, with
• 2:04:49
  Speaker 5: some prejudice, because you see me thus in irons. But
• 2:04:52
  Speaker 5: affliction is the portion of the virtuous and the gallant.
• 2:04:56
  Speaker 12: It does not depress, sir, but manifest the brave right.
• 2:05:01
  Speaker 5: Sir, I find your noble You may perhaps have heard
• 2:05:05
  Speaker 5: of me. My name is Storm, this person my friend
• 2:05:08
  Speaker 5: who is called faggot, and myself being exposed by an
• 2:05:12
  Speaker 5: ungrateful world to feel its cruelty and contempt of ragged virtue,
• 2:05:17
  Speaker 5: made war upon it, and an open day infested their
• 2:05:21
  Speaker 5: high road.
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  Speaker 12: Your humble servant, gentlemen, how do you conceive you? Your
• 2:05:26
  Speaker 12: spirits could not stoop to bart on the change, to
• 2:05:28
  Speaker 12: sneer in courtse to lie, to flatter, or to creep
• 2:05:32
  Speaker 12: for bread. You therefore chose rather to prey like lions,
• 2:05:36
  Speaker 12: than betray like crocodiles or fall like dogs. You took
• 2:05:40
  Speaker 12: upon you to interrupt the commerce of a cheating world,
• 2:05:43
  Speaker 12: to unload the user of his anxious palf and save
• 2:05:46
  Speaker 12: the thoughtless landed boy he traveled to undo with a
• 2:05:50
  Speaker 12: thousand such good actions, by which means you two are
• 2:05:54
  Speaker 12: infamous for what two millions of you had been glorious.
• 2:05:58
  Speaker 5: Right, sir, I see your knowing, sir, and learned in man,
• 2:06:02
  Speaker 5: This gentleman, mister Charcoal, the chemist, was our sacred correspondent.
• 2:06:07
  Speaker 5: And as we never robbed a poor man, so he
• 2:06:09
  Speaker 5: never cheated a fool. But still imposed on your most
• 2:06:13
  Speaker 5: sprightly wits and genius fellows of fire and metal, whose
• 2:06:17
  Speaker 5: quick fancies and eager wishes formed reasons for their undoing.
• 2:06:21
  Speaker 5: He is a follower of the great Rhemundus Lulius. The
• 2:06:25
  Speaker 5: public thinks to frighten him into their own purposes, but
• 2:06:28
  Speaker 5: he'll leave the ungrateful world without the secret.
• 2:06:32
  Speaker 6: Yeah, now, sir, he that first asserted the antipathies died
• 2:06:37
  Speaker 6: for that knowledge, and I, sir, having found out the
• 2:06:42
  Speaker 6: merely oration of metals. The ignorant will needs call it coining?
• 2:06:48
  Speaker 6: And am I to be hanged for it? Would you
• 2:06:51
  Speaker 6: think it?
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  Speaker 2: When?
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  Speaker 12: Pray? Sir?
• 2:06:53
  Speaker 6: Are you to be immortal on Friday next? I'm very
• 2:06:59
  Speaker 6: unhappy our acquaintance is to be short. I'm very sorry
• 2:07:05
  Speaker 6: your business is not over, sir, that if it must be,
• 2:07:09
  Speaker 6: we might go together.
• 2:07:12
  Speaker 12: I'm highly obliged to you, sir.
• 2:07:14
  Speaker 6: Yet let me tell you, sir, because by secret sympathy
• 2:07:19
  Speaker 6: I'm yours, I must acquaint you. If you can obtain
• 2:07:24
  Speaker 6: the favor of an opportunity and a crucible, I can
• 2:07:28
  Speaker 6: show projection directly, sol Sir, salser more bright than that
• 2:07:34
  Speaker 6: high luminary the Latins called. So wealth shall be yours.
• 2:07:40
  Speaker 6: We'll turn each bar about us into golden in gods, sir,
• 2:07:45
  Speaker 6: can you lend me half a crown?
• 2:07:48
  Speaker 12: Oh, sir, a trifle between such old acquaintance.
• 2:07:52
  Speaker 5: You'll be indicted, sir tomorrow. I would advise you, when
• 2:07:56
  Speaker 5: your indictment's read to one thing, that is, don't cavil
• 2:07:59
  Speaker 5: at fall Latin. But if by chance there should be
• 2:08:02
  Speaker 5: a word of good, except to that, and puzzle the
• 2:08:04
  Speaker 5: whole court, Satain.
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  Speaker 12: I'm obliged.
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  Speaker 5: I defy the world to say I ever did an
• 2:08:10
  Speaker 5: ill thing. I love my friend. But there is always
• 2:08:13
  Speaker 5: some little trifle given to prisoners they call garnish. We
• 2:08:17
  Speaker 5: of the road or above it. But at the other
• 2:08:19
  Speaker 5: side of the house, silly rascals that came voluntarily hither,
• 2:08:22
  Speaker 5: such as are in for fools signed their own mittimus,
• 2:08:25
  Speaker 5: in being bound for others, may perhaps want it. I'll
• 2:08:28
  Speaker 5: be your faithful Almina.
• 2:08:30
  Speaker 1: Oh, by all means, Sir gives him money.
• 2:08:34
  Speaker 5: Pray, sir, is that your footman?
• 2:08:36
  Speaker 12: He is my friend, sir, Look you, sir.
• 2:08:40
  Speaker 5: The only time to make use of a friend is
• 2:08:42
  Speaker 5: in extremity. Do you think you could not hang him
• 2:08:45
  Speaker 5: and save yourself, Sir, My service to you your own.
• 2:08:49
  Speaker 12: Health, Captain you're a olph.
• 2:08:52
  Speaker 1: Gives it to the next prisoner, Captain your elp.
• 2:08:57
  Speaker 5: But perhaps the captain likes Brandy better. So Brandy there drinks,
• 2:09:03
  Speaker 5: but you don't perhaps like these strong liquors. Cider Ho
• 2:09:06
  Speaker 5: drinks to him in it gentlemen all but Captain, I
• 2:09:11
  Speaker 5: say you don't love cider. Neither you and I will
• 2:09:13
  Speaker 5: be for Claret. Then, ay, marry, I knew this would please.
• 2:09:17
  Speaker 1: Drinks you drinks again.
• 2:09:21
  Speaker 5: Faith, we'll make an end on it. I'm glad you
• 2:09:23
  Speaker 5: like it.
• 2:09:24
  Speaker 13: I'm sorry Captain Storm to see you impose on it
• 2:09:27
  Speaker 13: gentleman and put him to charge in his misfortune if
• 2:09:31
  Speaker 13: a petty larceny fellow had done this, but one of the.
• 2:09:35
  Speaker 5: Road I beg your pardon, sir, I don't question. But
• 2:09:38
  Speaker 5: the captain understands. There is a fee for you going
• 2:09:41
  Speaker 5: to the keeper's side.
• 2:09:42
  Speaker 1: Bookwetch and Lautine give him money, excemed with turnkey Simon following, nay.
• 2:09:49
  Speaker 5: Nay, you must stay here.
• 2:09:51
  Speaker 7: Oy, I am syman, Madam Penelope is man.
• 2:09:56
  Speaker 5: Then Madame Penelope's man must strip for garnish. Indeed, Master Simon, you.
• 2:10:01
  Speaker 7: Must thieves thieves, thieves.
• 2:10:05
  Speaker 5: Thieves, thieves, Why, senseless dog do you think there's thieves
• 2:10:09
  Speaker 5: in Newgate? Away with him to the taphouse.
• 2:10:12
  Speaker 14: Pushes him off we'll drink his coat off.
• 2:10:16
  Speaker 5: Come, my little chemist, thou shalt transmute this jacket into liquor,
• 2:10:19
  Speaker 5: liquor that will make us forget the evil day. And
• 2:10:23
  Speaker 5: while the day is ours, let us be merry. For
• 2:10:26
  Speaker 5: little villains must submit to fate, that great ones may
• 2:10:29
  Speaker 5: enjoy the world in state.
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  Speaker 1: Excellent end of Act four, Act five of The Lying
• 2:10:43
  Speaker 1: Lover or The Lady's Friendship by Richard Steele. This is
• 2:10:47
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• 2:10:58
  Speaker 1: Act the fifth scene one Newgate, young Buquet discovered on
• 2:11:05
  Speaker 1: a couch asleep lateen looking on him.
• 2:11:09
  Speaker 4: How quietly he rests. Oh, that I could, by watching him,
• 2:11:15
  Speaker 4: hanging thus over him and feeling all his care, protract
• 2:11:20
  Speaker 4: his sleep. Oh sleep, thou, sweetest gift of Heaven to man.
• 2:11:27
  Speaker 4: Still in thy downy arms embraced my friend, Nor loose
• 2:11:32
  Speaker 4: him from his inexistent trance to sense of yesterday and
• 2:11:36
  Speaker 4: pain of being. In thee oppressors soothe their angry brow
• 2:11:41
  Speaker 4: in thee. The oppressed forget tyrannic power in thee. The
• 2:11:47
  Speaker 4: wretch condemned is equal to his judge, and the sad
• 2:11:52
  Speaker 4: lover to his cruel fare. Nay, all the shining glories
• 2:11:57
  Speaker 4: men pursue when thou art wonted, are but empty noise?
• 2:12:01
  Speaker 4: Who then would court the pomp of guilty power? When
• 2:12:04
  Speaker 4: the mind sickens at the weary show and dies to
• 2:12:08
  Speaker 4: temporary death for ease, When half our life's cessation of
• 2:12:13
  Speaker 4: our being he wakes, How do I pity that returning life,
• 2:12:18
  Speaker 4: which I could hazard thousand lives to save?
• 2:12:21
  Speaker 12: Ah? Oh, how heavily do I awake this morning? Oh,
• 2:12:28
  Speaker 12: this senseless drinking, to suffer a whole week's painful, an
• 2:12:32
  Speaker 12: hour's jollity. Methinks my senses are burning round me. I
• 2:12:38
  Speaker 12: have but interrupted hints of the last night.
• 2:12:42
  Speaker 6: Hah.
• 2:12:43
  Speaker 19: In a jail, Oh I remember, I remember, Oh, love more,
• 2:12:51
  Speaker 19: love more, I remember.
• 2:12:56
  Speaker 4: You must have patience and bear it like a man. O.
• 2:13:01
  Speaker 12: Whither shall I run to avoid myself? While all these bars,
• 2:13:06
  Speaker 12: these bolted iron gates, they are needless to secure me. Here,
• 2:13:11
  Speaker 12: here's my rack, my jail, my torture. Oh, I can't
• 2:13:17
  Speaker 12: bear it. I cannot bear the rushing of new thoughts.
• 2:13:21
  Speaker 12: Fancy expends my senses to distraction, and my soul stretches
• 2:13:25
  Speaker 12: to that boundless space to which I've sent my wretched,
• 2:13:28
  Speaker 12: wretched friend, O Latin lauten, here's all our mirth and humor.
• 2:13:34
  Speaker 12: Come to this. Give me th wosom, close in thy bosom,
• 2:13:38
  Speaker 12: hide me from thy eyes. I cannot bear their pity or.
• 2:13:41
  Speaker 4: Approach dear book wit, how heartily I love you. I
• 2:13:47
  Speaker 4: don't know what to say, but pray, have patience.
• 2:13:51
  Speaker 12: If you can't bear my pain, that's but communicated by
• 2:13:54
  Speaker 12: your pity. How shall i my proper inborn woe, my wounded,
• 2:13:59
  Speaker 12: my mid.
• 2:14:01
  Speaker 4: In all assaults of fortune that should be serene, not
• 2:14:04
  Speaker 4: in the power of accident or chance.
• 2:14:07
  Speaker 12: Words, words, oh, that is but me a talk, perhaps indeed,
• 2:14:13
  Speaker 12: to undeserved affliction. Reason and argument may give relief, or
• 2:14:17
  Speaker 12: in the known vicissitudes of life, we may feel comforted
• 2:14:20
  Speaker 12: by our self persuasion. But he there is no taking
• 2:14:25
  Speaker 12: away guilt. This divine particle will ache forever. There is
• 2:14:30
  Speaker 12: no help. But whence I dare not ask? When this
• 2:14:33
  Speaker 12: material organ is indisposed. Julips can cool and anodynes give rest.
• 2:14:39
  Speaker 12: But nothing mix with this celestial drop. But due from
• 2:14:42
  Speaker 12: that high heaven of which tis part hm.
• 2:14:46
  Speaker 4: May that high heaven compose your mind and reconcile you
• 2:14:50
  Speaker 4: to yourself.
• 2:14:52
  Speaker 12: How can I hope it?
• 2:14:54
  Speaker 4: No?
• 2:14:55
  Speaker 12: I must dissent from man grovel on earth, Nor dare
• 2:14:59
  Speaker 12: look up again?
• 2:15:01
  Speaker 4: Oh?
• 2:15:01
  Speaker 12: Love more, love more? Where is he now? Oh? Thinking thinking?
• 2:15:08
  Speaker 12: Why didst thou not come sooner?
• 2:15:10
  Speaker 6: Oh?
• 2:15:11
  Speaker 15: Not?
• 2:15:11
  Speaker 6: Nah?
• 2:15:12
  Speaker 12: My thoughts do so confuse menh as my falling pleasures
• 2:15:17
  Speaker 12: did before this fatal accident, that I cannot recollect Wen's love.
• 2:15:21
  Speaker 12: Moore was provoked to challenge me.
• 2:15:24
  Speaker 4: You know, dear book quit. I feared some ill from
• 2:15:28
  Speaker 4: a careless way of talking, but alas I dreamt not
• 2:15:32
  Speaker 4: of so great?
• 2:15:34
  Speaker 12: Ay, there it was. He was naturally a little jealous.
• 2:15:38
  Speaker 12: Heavens do I say he was? I talked to him
• 2:15:42
  Speaker 12: of ladies treats, and he might possibly believed was where
• 2:15:46
  Speaker 12: he had engaged. I remember his serious behavior on that subject,
• 2:15:52
  Speaker 12: This unhappy tongue of mine, Thou lawless, voluble, destroying foe
• 2:15:57
  Speaker 12: that still runs do on? Nor waits come out of reason?
• 2:16:01
  Speaker 6: Oh?
• 2:16:01
  Speaker 12: I could tear thee from me?
• 2:16:03
  Speaker 4: Did you not expostulate before the action?
• 2:16:07
  Speaker 12: He would have done, But I, flushed with the thoughts
• 2:16:11
  Speaker 12: of dueling, pressed on. Thus for the empty praise of fools.
• 2:16:16
  Speaker 12: I'm solidly unhappy you.
• 2:16:19
  Speaker 4: Take it too deeply. Your honor was concerned honor.
• 2:16:24
  Speaker 12: The horrid application of that sacred word to a revenge
• 2:16:27
  Speaker 12: against friendship, law and reason is a damned last shift
• 2:16:31
  Speaker 12: of the damned, envious foe of human race. The routed
• 2:16:35
  Speaker 12: fiend projected this. But since the expense of glorious law
• 2:16:39
  Speaker 12: from heaven came down forgive.
• 2:16:43
  Speaker 20: Enter turnkey, gentlemen, I come to tell you that you
• 2:16:47
  Speaker 20: have the favorite to be carried in chairs to your indictment,
• 2:16:52
  Speaker 20: to which you must go immediately.
• 2:16:55
  Speaker 12: We are ready, sir, how shall I bear the eyeshot
• 2:16:59
  Speaker 12: of the crowd and court?
• 2:17:02
  Speaker 1: Excellent Scene two Frederick's lodgings, Enter love more in a
• 2:17:09
  Speaker 1: sergeant's gown and Frederic.
• 2:17:12
  Speaker 2: Oh mankind is infinitely beholden to this noble steptych that
• 2:17:19
  Speaker 2: could produce such wonderful effects. So suddenly, but though my
• 2:17:24
  Speaker 2: wound was very slight, I'm weak by the effusion of
• 2:17:27
  Speaker 2: so much blood.
• 2:17:29
  Speaker 3: Yet after all, you have not lost enough to cool
• 2:17:32
  Speaker 3: your passion. Your heart still beats, Penelope, Penelope, But in
• 2:17:38
  Speaker 3: this disguise you have opportunity for observation. You'll see whether
• 2:17:42
  Speaker 3: you ought still to value her or not. I'm glad
• 2:17:46
  Speaker 3: you thought of being brought hither as soon as you
• 2:17:48
  Speaker 3: came to yourself. I expect old book with every moment.
• 2:17:52
  Speaker 1: Here enter old Booquet.
• 2:17:55
  Speaker 14: There he is, Oh, mister Frederick.
• 2:18:00
  Speaker 7: Too late.
• 2:18:01
  Speaker 14: Too late was our care. They met last night, and
• 2:18:06
  Speaker 14: then the fatal act was done. You'll excuse, sir, a
• 2:18:11
  Speaker 14: father's sorrow. I can't speak much, but you may guess
• 2:18:17
  Speaker 14: what I hope from you.
• 2:18:19
  Speaker 3: You may depend on ingenuous usage in this prosecution. I'm
• 2:18:23
  Speaker 3: going instantly to Penelopes with this learned gentleman to know
• 2:18:27
  Speaker 3: what she can say to this matter. I desired you
• 2:18:31
  Speaker 3: in the note. I sent you to purchase the favor
• 2:18:34
  Speaker 3: of your son's being brought thither, where he and you
• 2:18:38
  Speaker 3: may be witness of what shall pass. I seek not
• 2:18:41
  Speaker 3: his blood, nor would neglect a justice to my deceased friend.
• 2:18:46
  Speaker 14: I believe my son and the rest are going thither
• 2:18:49
  Speaker 14: ere this, and I desire this worthy Sergeant's favor and advice,
• 2:18:55
  Speaker 14: since we both mean the same thing, only to act
• 2:18:59
  Speaker 14: with honor if his life may be saved.
• 2:19:03
  Speaker 2: I'll do what's just to the deceased and the survivor.
• 2:19:07
  Speaker 14: I'll leave you, but will take care to come in
• 2:19:11
  Speaker 14: just before the criminals arrive.
• 2:19:13
  Speaker 1: Excellent.
• 2:19:15
  Speaker 2: The poor old gentleman prithee, let's go. I long to
• 2:19:21
  Speaker 2: see my lovely torment Penelope.
• 2:19:28
  Speaker 3: I'll but leave word within.
• 2:19:30
  Speaker 1: Excellent Scene three Penelope's lodgings. Enter Penelope and Victoria.
• 2:19:40
  Speaker 8: It seems simon ly out all night, and was carried
• 2:19:43
  Speaker 8: away by the watch with some gentlemen in a quarrel.
• 2:19:46
  Speaker 15: I fancy the men who are always for showing their
• 2:19:48
  Speaker 15: valor are like the women who are always talking of
• 2:19:51
  Speaker 15: their chastity, because they are conscious of their defect in
• 2:19:55
  Speaker 15: it right.
• 2:19:56
  Speaker 8: For we are not apt to raise arguments, but about
• 2:19:59
  Speaker 8: what we think is just beautiful.
• 2:20:00
  Speaker 4: Ay.
• 2:20:01
  Speaker 15: Ay, They whose honor is a sore part are more
• 2:20:04
  Speaker 15: fearful of being touched than they in whom tis only
• 2:20:07
  Speaker 15: a tender one. But tell me, honestly, Penelope, should poor
• 2:20:12
  Speaker 15: lover Moore be in this written counter and that for
• 2:20:15
  Speaker 15: your sake, would it have no effect upon you in
• 2:20:17
  Speaker 15: his favor?
• 2:20:19
  Speaker 8: I don't know how to answer you, but I find
• 2:20:22
  Speaker 8: something in that reflection which acquaints me. Tis very hard
• 2:20:25
  Speaker 8: for one to know one's own heart size.
• 2:20:29
  Speaker 15: However, let your heart answer me one question more as
• 2:20:32
  Speaker 15: well as it can? Does it love me as well
• 2:20:36
  Speaker 15: as ever it did?
• 2:20:38
  Speaker 8: Does not? Madam? That question proceed from a change in
• 2:20:40
  Speaker 8: your own.
• 2:20:42
  Speaker 15: It does, Penelope, I own it does. I had a
• 2:20:45
  Speaker 15: long conflict with myself on my pillow last night.
• 2:20:48
  Speaker 8: What were your thoughts there?
• 2:20:50
  Speaker 15: That I owed it to our friendship to acknowledge to
• 2:20:53
  Speaker 15: you that all the pleasure I once had aknew is vanished, Penelope,
• 2:21:00
  Speaker 15: sorry for every good quality you have.
• 2:21:03
  Speaker 8: Since you are so frank, I must confess to you
• 2:21:06
  Speaker 8: something very like this. But however I envied that sprightly,
• 2:21:10
  Speaker 8: ingenuous native beauty of yours. I see it now so much,
• 2:21:13
  Speaker 8: the figure of your mind that I can conquer. I
• 2:21:16
  Speaker 8: think I can any inclination in myself that opposes the
• 2:21:20
  Speaker 8: happiness of so sincere a friend.
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  Speaker 15: Explain yourself, my dear.
• 2:21:25
  Speaker 8: I'll discountenance this Booquet's ambiguous addresses, And if love more
• 2:21:29
  Speaker 8: can forgive my late ill usage, I need say no more.
• 2:21:33
  Speaker 11: Enter Servant, mister Frederick below desires to see you on
• 2:21:38
  Speaker 11: some extraordinary business.
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  Speaker 15: I have not time, my dearest friend, to applaud or
• 2:21:44
  Speaker 15: thank you, but must run in. He comes from lover Moore, Remember.
• 2:21:48
  Speaker 8: Exit let him come up now, can't I, for my
• 2:21:52
  Speaker 8: life will bear a little tyranny.
• 2:21:55
  Speaker 1: Enter Frederick and love more.
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  Speaker 8: Good morrow, sir. I believe I know your business. You're
• 2:22:01
  Speaker 8: officious for your friend, but I am deaf.
• 2:22:05
  Speaker 3: I know you are and have been, But I come
• 2:22:09
  Speaker 3: only to do him a last office. He'll trouble you
• 2:22:12
  Speaker 3: no more. But I must conjure you to read this
• 2:22:15
  Speaker 3: and inform this learned gentleman, what you know of this misfortune?
• 2:22:20
  Speaker 1: Penelope?
• 2:22:21
  Speaker 8: Reading your cruelty provoked me to desire the favor of
• 2:22:25
  Speaker 8: dying by mister Bickwith's hand, since he had taken from
• 2:22:28
  Speaker 8: me more than life in robbing me of you. Farewell forever.
• 2:22:32
  Speaker 8: I direct Frederick not to give you this till I
• 2:22:34
  Speaker 8: am no more writ in his blood, Till I am
• 2:22:39
  Speaker 8: no more love more, no more. Thou shalt not be
• 2:22:43
  Speaker 8: no more. Thou shalt live here forever. Here, thou, dearest paper,
• 2:22:47
  Speaker 8: mingle with my life's stream. Either the paper bleeds in
• 2:22:51
  Speaker 8: you or my eyes weak blood. So let him do forever,
• 2:22:55
  Speaker 8: Oh my love, more, did the vanity of a prating
• 2:22:58
  Speaker 8: boy banish thy solid services and manly love.
• 2:23:01
  Speaker 3: This is no reparation to him for his lost life,
• 2:23:05
  Speaker 3: nor me for my lost friend. Yet when you please
• 2:23:09
  Speaker 3: to receive him, I am obliged to deliver you some
• 2:23:11
  Speaker 3: papers wherein he has given you all the fortune he
• 2:23:15
  Speaker 3: could bestow, nor would revoke it even thus injured as
• 2:23:19
  Speaker 3: he was.
• 2:23:20
  Speaker 8: CAUs on all wealth and fortune, he he is gone,
• 2:23:24
  Speaker 8: who only deserved all, and who's worth I know too late.
• 2:23:29
  Speaker 1: Love More to Frederick, Oh exstasy.
• 2:23:34
  Speaker 2: Why was I angry at her, rejoicing at my sorrow
• 2:23:37
  Speaker 2: when hers to me is such perfect bliss? Tis barbarous.
• 2:23:42
  Speaker 1: Not to discover myself Frederick to love more.
• 2:23:46
  Speaker 3: Do and be used barbarously. But Madam, you must be composed.
• 2:23:52
  Speaker 3: Your life for art I know is at stake, for
• 2:23:56
  Speaker 3: there is no such thing as accessories and murder, and
• 2:23:59
  Speaker 3: it can be proved you knew of love Moore's threatening
• 2:24:01
  Speaker 3: to fight Bookwit. You must either take your trial yourself
• 2:24:07
  Speaker 3: or be mister Buckwit's witness.
• 2:24:09
  Speaker 8: Ay his witness, nor I'll swear anything to hang him.
• 2:24:13
  Speaker 3: Ah Madam, you must consider yourself. However, pray sir read
• 2:24:19
  Speaker 3: her indictment.
• 2:24:20
  Speaker 21: To her love More, reading that on the said third
• 2:24:25
  Speaker 21: day of April, the said Penelope of the Parish of
• 2:24:29
  Speaker 21: Saint Martin's in the fields Spinster without fear before her eyes.
• 2:24:35
  Speaker 2: But by the instigation of the devil, and through an
• 2:24:38
  Speaker 2: evil pride of heart, tis too true, did contrive a
• 2:24:43
  Speaker 2: bet and consent to the death of John Lovermore Esquire,
• 2:24:48
  Speaker 2: of the age of twenty eight years or thereabouts.
• 2:24:53
  Speaker 3: I can't hear the mention of him without tears. He
• 2:24:57
  Speaker 3: was the sincerest friend.
• 2:24:59
  Speaker 2: I think, I think I have seen him he was.
• 2:25:02
  Speaker 2: I've heard a man of honesty, but of something a
• 2:25:06
  Speaker 2: disagreeable make.
• 2:25:08
  Speaker 8: Oh, sir, you never saw him, if you think, sir,
• 2:25:11
  Speaker 8: his person was as free as his mind was honest.
• 2:25:14
  Speaker 8: Nor had he imperfection.
• 2:25:16
  Speaker 1: But his love of me weeps love more to Frederick.
• 2:25:21
  Speaker 2: I tremble. I shall disoblige her too much.
• 2:25:26
  Speaker 1: Frederick, to love more.
• 2:25:28
  Speaker 3: You shan't discover yourself. You shall go through her soul
• 2:25:32
  Speaker 3: now tis moved on your side. Win her now, or
• 2:25:36
  Speaker 3: see my face no more. I'll not have my wine
• 2:25:40
  Speaker 3: spoiled every night with your recitals of love and asking advice,
• 2:25:44
  Speaker 3: though you never mean to take it like a true lover.
• 2:25:47
  Speaker 8: When did that best of men expire?
• 2:25:49
  Speaker 3: Good mister Frederick this morning? But should I speak the
• 2:25:53
  Speaker 3: manner with the faint dying voice, He called me to
• 2:25:58
  Speaker 3: him in tenderness to take my long farewell. He, in
• 2:26:05
  Speaker 3: a last effort of nature, pressed me to his breast,
• 2:26:09
  Speaker 3: and with the softest accent, sighed in death.
• 2:26:12
  Speaker 8: Penelope, Oh, the too generous man, ungrateful, I curses on
• 2:26:19
  Speaker 8: him first fluttered with his tongue on her that first
• 2:26:21
  Speaker 8: assembled in her silence. What miseries have they entailed on life?
• 2:26:25
  Speaker 8: To bring in fraud and diffidence of love? Simplicity's the
• 2:26:29
  Speaker 8: dress of honest passion? Then why are arts? Why to
• 2:26:32
  Speaker 8: a man enamored that at her feet affuses all his soul?
• 2:26:36
  Speaker 8: Must women called appear false to herself and him?
• 2:26:41
  Speaker 1: Frederick, to love more?
• 2:26:43
  Speaker 3: Do you see there? You'd have spoke before she considered that.
• 2:26:48
  Speaker 8: Oh, could I see him now? To press his livid
• 2:26:50
  Speaker 8: lips and call him back to life with my complaints.
• 2:26:55
  Speaker 8: His eyes would glare upon my guilt with horror that
• 2:26:58
  Speaker 8: used to gloat and melt and love before me. Let
• 2:27:02
  Speaker 8: mine forever, then be shot to joy, to all that's
• 2:27:06
  Speaker 8: bright and valuable in man ai Ale, to his sacred ashes,
• 2:27:10
  Speaker 8: be a wife, and to his memory, diverte my wife exit.
• 2:27:16
  Speaker 2: This is worth dying for. Indeed, I'll follow her.
• 2:27:22
  Speaker 3: No, you shan't let her go in, Throw herself upon
• 2:27:26
  Speaker 3: her bed, and hug and call her pillow love more.
• 2:27:29
  Speaker 3: This is what you've done a thousand times for her.
• 2:27:32
  Speaker 2: That's true too.
• 2:27:34
  Speaker 3: Let her contemplate on the mischief of a vanity. She
• 2:27:38
  Speaker 3: shall lament to her glasses of our side, till its
• 2:27:41
  Speaker 3: pretty eyes be all blubbered. Its heart must heaven pant
• 2:27:45
  Speaker 3: with perfect anguish before twill feel the sorrow of another's,
• 2:27:49
  Speaker 3: don't you know? Pride, scorn, affectation, and a whole train
• 2:27:54
  Speaker 3: of ills must be sobbed away before a great beauty
• 2:27:57
  Speaker 3: is mortified to purpose and servant.
• 2:28:01
  Speaker 11: Old mister Booquitt inquires for you here, mister Frederick, pray.
• 2:28:06
  Speaker 3: Let him come up.
• 2:28:08
  Speaker 2: Enter, Old Boquitt, what's the matter? You seem more discomposed
• 2:28:13
  Speaker 2: than you were at mister Frederick's. Something still new.
• 2:28:17
  Speaker 14: I saw the boy coming in with chair. He looks
• 2:28:22
  Speaker 14: so languid and distressed. Poor lad. He has all his
• 2:28:26
  Speaker 14: mother's softness by nature of the sweetest disposition. Oh gentlemen,
• 2:28:33
  Speaker 14: you know not what it is to be a father.
• 2:28:37
  Speaker 14: To see my only child in that condition. My grief
• 2:28:41
  Speaker 14: quickened at the sight of him. I've thought I could
• 2:28:45
  Speaker 14: have patience till I saw.
• 2:28:46
  Speaker 1: Him enter servant.
• 2:28:49
  Speaker 11: There are two or three in chairs desire admittance by appointment.
• 2:28:54
  Speaker 1: It is right, sir, enter young, bequitt, lateen and jailer.
• 2:29:01
  Speaker 14: Oh my dear child, Oh Tom, are all thy aged
• 2:29:07
  Speaker 14: father's hopes. Then come to this, that he can't see
• 2:29:12
  Speaker 14: thee his only son, but guarded by a jailer. Thy
• 2:29:18
  Speaker 14: mother's happy that lived not to see this day is
• 2:29:22
  Speaker 14: all the nurture that she gave thy infancy, the erudition
• 2:29:26
  Speaker 14: she bequeath thy youth. Thus answered, oh my son, my son,
• 2:29:33
  Speaker 14: rise and support thy father. I sink with tenderness. My child,
• 2:29:39
  Speaker 14: come to my arms while thou art mine.
• 2:29:42
  Speaker 12: O best of fathers. Let me not see your tears.
• 2:29:47
  Speaker 12: Don't double my afflictions by your woe. There's consolation when
• 2:29:51
  Speaker 12: a friend laments us, but when apparent griefs, the anguish
• 2:29:55
  Speaker 12: is too native, too much our own, to be called pity. Sir, consider,
• 2:30:02
  Speaker 12: I was born to die. Tis but expanding thought and
• 2:30:06
  Speaker 12: life is nothing. Ages and generations pass away, and with
• 2:30:11
  Speaker 12: resistless force, like waves or waves roll down the irrevocable
• 2:30:16
  Speaker 12: stream of time into the insatiate ocean for ever. Thus
• 2:30:21
  Speaker 12: we are gone. But the erroneous sense of man tis
• 2:30:25
  Speaker 12: the lamented that's at rest. But the survivor mourns. All
• 2:30:30
  Speaker 12: my sorrows vanish with that thought. But Heaven grant my
• 2:30:33
  Speaker 12: aged father patience.
• 2:30:36
  Speaker 14: Oh child, turning away, do not torment yourself.
• 2:30:43
  Speaker 12: You shall promise not to grieve. What if they do
• 2:30:46
  Speaker 12: upbraid you with my death? Consider, sir, in death, that
• 2:30:50
  Speaker 12: our relation ceases. Nor shall I want your care or
• 2:30:55
  Speaker 12: nor your grief. It matters not whether by law or
• 2:30:58
  Speaker 12: nature tis I die? What won't my father hear me?
• 2:31:03
  Speaker 12: Plead to him? Don't turn from me yet, don't look
• 2:31:08
  Speaker 12: at me with your soul so.
• 2:31:09
  Speaker 14: Full, Oh my child, my child, I could hear thee.
• 2:31:14
  Speaker 14: Ever twas that I love THEE that I turned away
• 2:31:19
  Speaker 14: to hear my son persuade me to resign him. I can't,
• 2:31:23
  Speaker 14: I can't. The grief is insupportable.
• 2:31:28
  Speaker 12: You make a coward of me with your anguish. I
• 2:31:31
  Speaker 12: grow an infant scarce can weep with silence, But let
• 2:31:36
  Speaker 12: me keep some decency in my distress.
• 2:31:39
  Speaker 14: If we might be apart looking at the company, but
• 2:31:44
  Speaker 14: that's too much to hope.
• 2:31:47
  Speaker 1: No, no, we'll leave you to yourselves. Excellent, I have.
• 2:31:53
  Speaker 14: Too much upon me child to speak, and indeed have
• 2:31:57
  Speaker 14: nothing to say but to feed my eyes upon thee
• 2:32:01
  Speaker 14: airy part forever, if tears would let me. When you
• 2:32:05
  Speaker 14: have slept in your cradle, I have waked for you.
• 2:32:09
  Speaker 14: And was it to this end? Oh child, you've broke
• 2:32:15
  Speaker 14: your father's heart.
• 2:32:17
  Speaker 12: Swoons, good Heaven forbid it, Guard him and protect him.
• 2:32:23
  Speaker 12: He faints, he's cold, he's gone.
• 2:32:27
  Speaker 1: Running to him, he's gone, and with his last breath
• 2:32:32
  Speaker 1: called me parricide.
• 2:32:34
  Speaker 12: You've broke your father's heart. Oh killing sound. I'm all
• 2:32:40
  Speaker 12: contagion to pity me his death. My griefs to all
• 2:32:45
  Speaker 12: are mortal, but myself. You've broke your father's heart. If
• 2:32:52
  Speaker 12: I did so? Why the serene in death, O smiling clay,
• 2:32:56
  Speaker 12: Why that calm aspect to thy murderer, Oh, big, unutterable grief,
• 2:33:03
  Speaker 12: merciful Heaven, I don't deserve this ease of tears to
• 2:33:07
  Speaker 12: melt with penitence. Ugh, sweet, sweet remorse. That will my
• 2:33:14
  Speaker 12: powers give way to my just sorrow for the best
• 2:33:17
  Speaker 12: of fathers, Thou venerable fountain of my life? Why didn't
• 2:33:22
  Speaker 12: I also die? Derived from the shore? You are not gone?
• 2:33:27
  Speaker 12: Is the way out of life? That's easy, which you
• 2:33:30
  Speaker 12: so much feared in me, takes.
• 2:33:32
  Speaker 1: Him by the hand.
• 2:33:34
  Speaker 12: Why stay I after? But I deserve to stay, to
• 2:33:39
  Speaker 12: feel the quick remembrance of my follies. It is my size,
• 2:33:43
  Speaker 12: my tears, my anguish can.
• 2:33:46
  Speaker 1: Atone re enter Frederick love More, Lautine, Jailor, Victoria and Penelope.
• 2:33:55
  Speaker 3: What is the matter?
• 2:33:56
  Speaker 12: What behold this sight? Hi am the guilty rich.
• 2:34:02
  Speaker 3: Keep aside a little, sir, He only swoons. I hope
• 2:34:06
  Speaker 3: I think he breeze. Yes, he returns. You must compose yourself.
• 2:34:14
  Speaker 4: Poor Bookwit, how utterly he seems distressed.
• 2:34:18
  Speaker 14: I will be calm, resigned heaven and hear you patiently.
• 2:34:25
  Speaker 3: You, sir, his favorite servant, pray speak honestly of truth,
• 2:34:29
  Speaker 3: of what you know of this learned gentleman, who is
• 2:34:32
  Speaker 3: counsel in this case, Sir.
• 2:34:35
  Speaker 2: He is a not pray, sir, give the servant leave first.
• 2:34:40
  Speaker 4: No, then, I am not what I seem, but a
• 2:34:44
  Speaker 4: gentleman of a plentiful fortune. I am thus dressed to
• 2:34:48
  Speaker 4: carry on such gay pursuits as should offer in this town.
• 2:34:52
  Speaker 4: Not to detain you. Mister Bookwitt sent me late last
• 2:34:55
  Speaker 4: night with a letter to one of these ladies coming
• 2:34:59
  Speaker 4: from thence as I crossed, I saw love More in
• 2:35:02
  Speaker 4: the garden. He stopped me, and after some questions concerning
• 2:35:06
  Speaker 4: my message to this house, to which he did not
• 2:35:09
  Speaker 4: like my answers, he struck me. We fought. I left
• 2:35:13
  Speaker 4: him dead upon the spot of which this gentleman is guiltless.
• 2:35:18
  Speaker 14: Ah. Was it you then that killed mister Lovemore?
• 2:35:23
  Speaker 4: Twas this unhappy hand gave him his death? But so provoked?
• 2:35:28
  Speaker 12: Who could believe that any pleasing passion could touch a
• 2:35:31
  Speaker 12: breast loaded with guilt like mine? But oh, my mind
• 2:35:35
  Speaker 12: is seized with admiration of thy stupendous friendship. What then
• 2:35:40
  Speaker 12: couldst thou hold thy innocent hand up at a bar
• 2:35:42
  Speaker 12: with felons to save thy friend? How shall I child
• 2:35:46
  Speaker 12: or praise thy brave imposture, Ah, Sir, believe him not.
• 2:35:51
  Speaker 12: He cannot bear the loss of me, whom he overvalues. Therefore,
• 2:35:55
  Speaker 12: with highest gallantry he offers a benefit which towere the
• 2:35:58
  Speaker 12: meanest basin to receive. But deaths more welcome than a
• 2:36:02
  Speaker 12: life so purchased.
• 2:36:04
  Speaker 4: We all know you can talk and guild things as
• 2:36:08
  Speaker 4: you please. But the lady's servant knows I was taken
• 2:36:12
  Speaker 4: near the body when you sir, do but.
• 2:36:15
  Speaker 1: Hear me pushing away, lateen.
• 2:36:18
  Speaker 4: I'll easily convince.
• 2:36:20
  Speaker 12: You pushing away, buoquet, pray mind him not his brain
• 2:36:25
  Speaker 12: is touched.
• 2:36:26
  Speaker 4: I am the man he was not near the place I.
• 2:36:30
  Speaker 2: Can hold out no longer. Love More still lives to
• 2:36:35
  Speaker 2: adore your noble friendship and begs a share in it.
• 2:36:41
  Speaker 2: Be not amazed, but let me grasp you both, who
• 2:36:45
  Speaker 2: in an age degenerators this have such transcendent virtue.
• 2:36:51
  Speaker 12: Oh, love more, love more? How shall I speak my
• 2:36:55
  Speaker 12: joy thy recovery? I failed beneath the two ecstatic pleasures?
• 2:37:01
  Speaker 12: What help has human nature from its sorrows? When our
• 2:37:04
  Speaker 12: relief itself is such a burthen.
• 2:37:06
  Speaker 14: Oh, the best burthen upon earth. I beg your pardon, sir.
• 2:37:13
  Speaker 14: I never was so taken with a man in my
• 2:37:16
  Speaker 14: life at first sight.
• 2:37:17
  Speaker 1: Kisses lovemore to Latin.
• 2:37:21
  Speaker 14: Let me be known to you too, sir.
• 2:37:25
  Speaker 4: You do me honor.
• 2:37:27
  Speaker 14: But you, ladies, are the first cause of the many
• 2:37:32
  Speaker 14: errors we have been in, and you only can extricate
• 2:37:36
  Speaker 14: us with satisfaction. Such is the force of beauty. The
• 2:37:41
  Speaker 14: wounds the sword gave this gentleman with slight, But you'ves
• 2:37:45
  Speaker 14: transfixed a vital and a noble part his heart. Had
• 2:37:51
  Speaker 14: I known his pretenses, I had not interposed for my son.
• 2:37:56
  Speaker 3: Come, madam, no more of the cruel go on on
• 2:38:00
  Speaker 3: love more or my conscience. The man's afraid to his
• 2:38:04
  Speaker 3: impudence to be alive again. You see him now, madam.
• 2:38:09
  Speaker 3: Now you may press his livid lips and call him
• 2:38:11
  Speaker 3: back to life with your complaints.
• 2:38:15
  Speaker 2: I stand, methinks, on the brink of fate, in an
• 2:38:20
  Speaker 2: ambiguous interval of life and doubt to accept of being
• 2:38:25
  Speaker 2: till you smile in every human incident. Besides, I am
• 2:38:31
  Speaker 2: superior and can choose or leave. But in the minutest
• 2:38:35
  Speaker 2: things that touch my love, my bosom seized with anguish
• 2:38:41
  Speaker 2: or with transport.
• 2:38:43
  Speaker 8: You've shown your passion to me with such honor that
• 2:38:45
  Speaker 8: if I am confused, I know I should not be
• 2:38:48
  Speaker 8: to say I approve it, For I know no rule
• 2:38:51
  Speaker 8: should make me insensible of generous usage. My person and
• 2:38:55
  Speaker 8: my mind are yours forever.
• 2:38:58
  Speaker 2: Then doubts and fear and anxious cares be gone, All
• 2:39:03
  Speaker 2: ye black thoughts that did corrode my breast here and
• 2:39:07
  Speaker 2: to faith and confidence and love, love that can't live
• 2:39:14
  Speaker 2: with jealousy, but dwells with sacred marriage, truth and mutual honor.
• 2:39:21
  Speaker 2: I knew not where you would bestow your vows, but
• 2:39:25
  Speaker 2: never doubted of your faith when given.
• 2:39:30
  Speaker 14: Kissing her hand, You see, my son, how constancy is rewarded.
• 2:39:36
  Speaker 14: You have from nature every quality to make you well
• 2:39:39
  Speaker 14: become what fortune gave you. But neither wit nor beauty,
• 2:39:44
  Speaker 14: wealth nor courage implicitly deserve the world's esteem. They're only
• 2:39:49
  Speaker 14: in their application good. How could you find a man
• 2:39:53
  Speaker 14: you knew not why you don't think that tis great?
• 2:39:57
  Speaker 14: Merely to dare tis that a man is just, he
• 2:40:00
  Speaker 14: should be bold. Indeed you've aired.
• 2:40:04
  Speaker 4: You give my friend methinks too much compunction for a
• 2:40:08
  Speaker 4: little levity in his actions, when he's too severe in
• 2:40:11
  Speaker 4: his own reflections on him.
• 2:40:14
  Speaker 8: Of Victoria, you see, I take your advice at last
• 2:40:17
  Speaker 8: in choice of love.
• 2:40:18
  Speaker 15: More, I congratulate your missing of the other.
• 2:40:22
  Speaker 8: I heartily believe you, my dear friend.
• 2:40:25
  Speaker 14: But we best guide our actions by hope of reward. Good.
• 2:40:30
  Speaker 14: But my son have such glorious prospect as this fair
• 2:40:33
  Speaker 14: one to Victoria, I doubt not, but his future carriage
• 2:40:38
  Speaker 14: would deserve her.
• 2:40:40
  Speaker 15: I believe I may safely promise to approve of all
• 2:40:43
  Speaker 15: the truth he tells.
• 2:40:44
  Speaker 12: Me, you've promised them to like all.
• 2:40:47
  Speaker 14: I shall say, these unexpected good events deserve our celebration
• 2:40:53
  Speaker 14: with some mirth and fiddles.
• 2:40:56
  Speaker 3: I foresaw this happy turn. Therefore have prepar'd them.
• 2:41:02
  Speaker 7: Call in the dancers, the rolling years, the joys restore
• 2:41:08
  Speaker 7: which happy, happy Britain knew when in a female age
• 2:41:13
  Speaker 7: before beauty, the sword of justice drew nymphs and fawns,
• 2:41:19
  Speaker 7: and rural powers, of crystal floods and shady bowers. No
• 2:41:24
  Speaker 7: more shall here preside the flowing wave and living green,
• 2:41:30
  Speaker 7: owe only to their present queen, their safety and their pride.
• 2:41:37
  Speaker 7: United air and pleasures bring of tender note and tuneful string.
• 2:41:42
  Speaker 7: All your arts devoted are to move the innocent and
• 2:41:47
  Speaker 7: fair while they receive the pleasing wound. Echo repeats the
• 2:41:53
  Speaker 7: dying sound.
• 2:41:56
  Speaker 12: Since such deserved misfortunes they must share. Who with gay
• 2:42:01
  Speaker 12: falsehoods entertained the fair? Let all with this just maxim
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  Speaker 12: guide the youth. There is no gallantry in love but truth.
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  Speaker 1: Excellent epilogue, Our too adventurous author soared to night above
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  Speaker 1: the little praise mirth to excite, and chose with pity
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  Speaker 1: to chastise the light for laughters a distorted passion born
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  Speaker 1: of sudden self esteem and sudden scorn, which went is
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  Speaker 1: over the men in pleasure. Wise, both him that moved
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  Speaker 1: it and themselves despise, while generous pity of a painted
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  Speaker 1: woe makes us ourselves both more approve and know. What
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  Speaker 1: is that touch within which nature gave from man to
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  Speaker 1: man ere fortune made a slave? Sure it descends from
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  Speaker 1: that red power alone, who levels thunder from his awful
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  Speaker 1: throne and shakes both worlds. Yet hears the wretched groan.
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  Speaker 1: Tis what the ancient sage could ne'er define, wondered, and
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  Speaker 1: called part human, part divine. Tis that pure joy which
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  Speaker 1: guardian angels know, when timely they assist their care below,
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  Speaker 1: when they the good protect the ill oppose. Tis what
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  Speaker 1: our sovereign feels when she bestows, which gives her glorious
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  Speaker 1: cause such high success that only on the stage you
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  Speaker 1: see distress. End of Act five. End of The Lying
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  Speaker 1: Lover or The Lady's Friendship by Richard Steele