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  The Conscious Lovers ilugenous narrationis, quad impersonis, positimist debetibiri, semonis, festivitatum,
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  an imorum, dissimilitudinum, gravitatum, lenetatum, spemmetum, suspicionum, desiderium,
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  dissimulationum, misericordium, rerum, variatats, fortun commutationum, in speratum,
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  in commodum, subitam, lentitium, jecundum, exitumbreum, cicero, rhetorica,
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  adhernium liberunus. Footnote. The kind of narrative which is presented on the stage
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  ought to be marked by gaiety of dialog, diversity of character, seriousness,
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  tenderness, hope, fear, suspicion, desire, pity, variety of events,
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  changes of fortune, unexpected disaster, sudden joy, and a happy ending
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  and a footnote. The Conscious Lovers, a comedy which had been long in
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  preparation, was acted at Drury Lane Theater on November seventh, seventeen twenty two,
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  with new scenes and all the character's new dressed, and with Booth,
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  who had acted the part of Pamphylus the prototype of Young Bevill at Westminster with
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  great success. Wilkes, Myrtle Sibber, Tom Mills, Sir John Bevell,
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  Missus Oldfield Indiana, and Missus Younger Phyllis in the principal parts. The play
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  ran for eighteen nights and was a great success. It was often revived between
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  seventeen twenty two and seventeen sixty, and was acted at Covent Garden in eighteen
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  ten and at Bath in eighteen eighteen. Phyllis was Peg Woffington's second speaking character
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  in Dublin, and she took that part on March ninth, seventeen forty one,
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  during her first season in London. The play was published by Thomson on
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  December one, seventeen twenty two, with the date seventeen twenty three on the
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  title page. The general idea of the piece is taken from Terence's Andrea,
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  but the original is widely departed from After the opening scenes, Collie Sibber lent
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  material aid in preparing the play for representation. It was attacked by John Dennis
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  in two pamphlets and defended by Benjamin Victor and others to the King, May
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  it please your Majesty after having a spy to the highest and most laudable ambition
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  that of following the cause of liberty. I should not have humbly petitioned your
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  Majesty for a direction of the theater, had I not believed success in that
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  province and happiness much to be wished by an honest man, and highly conducing
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  to the prosperity of the commonwealth. It is in this view I lay before
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  your Majesty a comedy which the audience, in justice to themselves, has supported
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  and encouraged, and is the prelude of what, by your Majesty's influence and
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  favor, may be attempted in future representations. The imperial mantle, the royal
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  vestment, and the shining diadem are what strike ordinary minds. But your Majesty's
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  native goodness, your passion for justice, and her common constant assessor mercy,
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  is what continually surrounds you in the view of intelligent spirits, and gives hope
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  to the supplicant who sees he has more than succeeded in giving your Majesty an
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  opportunity of doing good. Our King is above the greatness of royalty, and
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  every act of his will which makes another man happy has ten times more charms
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  in it than one that makes himself appear raised above the condition of others.
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  But even this carries unhappiness with it. For calm, dominion, equal grandeur,
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  and familiar greatness do not easily affect the imagination of the vulgar, who
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  cannot see power. But in terror, and as fear moves mean spirits,
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  and love prompts great ones to obey, the insinuations of malcontents are direc accordingly,
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  and the unhappy people are ensnared from want of reflection into disrespectful ideas of
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  their gracious and amiable sovereign, and then only begin to apprehend the greatness of
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  their master when they have incurred his displeasure. As your Majesty was invited to
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  the throne of a willing people for their own sakes, and has ever enjoyed
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  it with contempt of the ostentation of it, we beseech you to protect us,
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  who revere your title as we love your person. Tis to be a
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  savage, to be a rebel, and they who have fallen from you have
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  not so much forfeited their allegiance as lost their humanity. And therefore, if
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  it were only to preserve myself from the imputation of being amongst the insensible and
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  abandoned. I will beg permission, in the most public manner possible, to
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  profess myself with the utmost sincerity and zeal, Sire, Your Majesty's most devoted
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  subject and servant, Richard Steele. The preface this comedy has been received with
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  universal acceptance, for it was in every part excellently performed, And there needs
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  no other applause of the actors but that they excelled according to the dignity and
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  difficulty of the character they represented. But this great favor done to the work
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  in acting renders the expectations still the greater from the author to keep up the
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  spirit in the representation of the closet or any other circumstance of the reader,
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  whether alone or in company, to which I can only say that it must
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  be remembered. A play is to be seen, and is made to be
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  represented with the advantage of action, nor can appear but with half the spirit
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  without it. For the greatest effect of a play in reading is to excite
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  the reader to go and see it, And when he does so, it
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  is then a play has the effect of example and precept. The chief design
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  of this was to be an innocent performance and the audience have abundantly shown how
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  ready they are to support what is visibly intended that way. Nor do I
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  make any difficulty to acknowledge that the whole was writ for the sake of the
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  scene of the fourth act, wherein mister Bevil evades the quarrel with his friend,
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  and hope it may have some effect on the goths and vandals that frequent
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  the theaters, or a more polite audience may supply their absence. But this
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  incident and the case of the father and daughter are esteemed by some people as
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  no subjects of comedy. But I cannot be of their mind, for anything
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  that has its foundation in happiness and success must be allowed to be the subject
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  of comedy, and sure it must be an improvement of it to introduce a
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  joy too exquisite for laughter that can have no spring but in delight, which
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  is the case of this young lady. I must therefore contend that the tears
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  which were shed on that occasion flowed from reason and good sense, and that
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  men ought not to be laughed at for weeping. Till we are come to
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  a more clear notion of what is to be imputed to the hardness of the
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  head and the softness of the heart. And I think it was very politely
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  said of mister Wilkes to one who told him there was a general weeping for
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  Indiana. I'll warrant he'll fight ne'er the worst for that to be apt.
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  To give way to the impressions of humanity is the excellence of a right disposition
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  and the natural working of a well turned spirit. But as I have suffered
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  by critics who have got no farther than to inquire whether they ought to be
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  pleased or not, I would willingly find them proper a matter for their employment,
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  and revive here a song which was omitted for want of a performer and
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  designed for the entertainment of Indiana Senior Carbonelli, instead of it played on the
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  fiddle. And it is for want of a singer that such advantageous things are
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  said of an instrument which were designed for a voice. The song is the
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  distress of a love sick maid, and may be a fit entertainment for some
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  small critics to examine whether the passion is just or the distress male or female
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  one from place to place forlorn, I go with downcast eyes, a silent
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  shade forbidden to declare my woe to speak till spoken to afraid two, my
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  inward pangs, my secret grief, my soft consenting looks. Betray he loves
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  for gives me no relief. Why speaks not he who may it remains to
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  say a word concerning Terence? And I am extremely surprised to find what mister
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  Zibba told me prove a truth that what I valued myself so much upon the
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  translation of him should be imputed to me as a reproach. Mister Cibber's zeal
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  for the work, his care and application in instructing the actors and altering the
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  disposition of the scenes when I was through sickness and able to cultivate such things
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  myself, has been a very obliging favor and friendship to me. For this
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  reason, I was very hardly persuaded to throw away Terence's celebrated funeral and take
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  only the bare authority of the young man's character and how I have worked it
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  into an englishman a made use of the same circumstances of discovering a daughter when
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  we least hoped for one, is humbly submitted to the learned reader. Prologue
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  by mister Waller, spoken by mister Wilkes. To win your hearts and to
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  secure your praise. The comic writers strive by various ways, by subtle stratagems,
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  they act their game and leave untried no avenue to fame. One writes
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  the spouse of beating from his wife, and says each stroke was copied from
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  the life. Some affix all wit and humor in grimace and make a livelihood
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  of Pinkie's face. Here, one gay show and costly habits tries confiding to
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  the judgment of your eyes. Another smuts his scene, a cunning shaver,
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  sure of the rakes and of the wench's favor. Oft of these arts prevailed,
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  and one may guess if practiced or again, would find success. But
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  the bold sage the poet of to Night, by new and desperate rules,
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  resolv'd to write, fain would he give more? Just applauses? Rise and
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  please by wit that scorns the aides of vice. The praise he seeks from
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  worthier motive springs. Such praise as praise to those that give it, brings
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  your aid most humbly sought than Briton's lend, and liberal mirth, Like liberal
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  men, defend no more, let ribaldry with license writ usurp the name of
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  eloquence, or wit no more let lawless farce, and cinsure to go the
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  lude dull gleanings of a Smithfield show tis yours with breeding, to refine the
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  age, to chasten, wit and moralize the stage, Ye modest wise and
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  good, Ye fare ye brave to knight, the champion of your virtues,
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  Save redeem from long contempt the comic name, and judge politely for your country's
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  fame. Dramatis personal Sir John Bevell read by Todd Mister Steeland read by Algie
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  pag Bethel Junior. In Love with Indiana read by Adrian Stephens. Myrtle in
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  Love with Lucinda read by Adam Bielka. Simbersom A Coxcomb read by Alan Lapstone.
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  Humphrey, an old Servant to Sir John, read by Laurie Wilson,
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  Tom Servant to Bevill Junior read by Thomas P. Daniel. A country Boy
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  Servant Indiana read by at nith Mind. Missus sealand second wife to sealand read
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  by Sonya Isabella, sister to sealand read by Catherine Phipps Indiana Celand's daughter by
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  his first wife, read by Orapunzelina Lucinda, Celand's daughter by his second wife,
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  read by Devora Allen Phyllis. Maid to Listen There read by ty J.
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  Burns. Servant read by jan Yao. Stage directions read by Michael Max
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  Scene, London, The Conscious Lovers Act the first scene one, Sir John
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  Bevill's House. Enter, Sir John Bevill and Humphrey. Have you ordered that
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  I should not be interrupted while I am dressing? Yes, Sir, I
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  believe you had something of moment to say to me. Let me see,
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  Humphrey. I think it is now full forty years since I first took THEE
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  to be about myself. I thank you, sir. It has been an
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  easy forty years, and I have passed them without much sickness, scare or
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  labor. Thou hast a brave constitution. You are a year or two older
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  than I am, Sir. Ah you have ever been of that mind?
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  Sir? You knave you know it. I took THEE for thy gravity and
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  sobriety in my wild years, Ah, Sir, Our manners were formed from
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  our different fortunes, not our different age. Wilth gave a loose to your
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  youth and poverty put a restraint upon mine. Well, Humphrey, you know
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  I have been a kind master to you. I have used you for the
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  ingenuous nature I observed in you from the beginning, more like a humble friend
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  than a servant. I humbly beg you'll be so tender of me as to
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  explain your commands, sir, without any farther preparation. I'll tell THEE.
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  Then, in the first place, this wedding of my sons, in all
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  probability shut the door will never be at all, how sir, not to
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  be at all? For what reason is it carried on in appearance? Honest,
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  Humphrey, have patience, and I'll tell THEE all in order. I
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  have myself, in some part of my life, lived indeed with freedom,
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  but I hope without reproach. Now, I thought liberty would be as little
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  injurious to my son. Therefore, as soon as he grew towards man,
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  I indulged him in living after his own manner. I knew not how otherwise
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  to judge of his inclination, for what can be concluded from a behavior under
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  restraint and fear? But what charms me above all expression is that my son
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  has never, in the least action the most distant hint or word, valued
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  himself upon that great est state of his mother's, which, according to our
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  marriage settlement, he has had ever since he came to age. No,
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  Sir, on the contrary, he seems afraid of appearing to enjoy it before
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  you or any belonging to you. He is as dependent and resigned to your
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  will as if he had not a farthing but what must come from your immediate
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  bounty. You have ever acted like a good and generous father, and he
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  like an obedient and grateful son. Nay, his carriage is so easy to
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  all with whom he converses, that he is never assuming, never prefers himself
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  to others, nor ever is guilty of that rough sincerity which a man is
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  not called to, and certainly disobliges most of his acquaintance to be short.
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  Humphrey, his reputation was so fair in the world that Old Zealand, the
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  great India merchant, has offered his only daughter and sole heiress to that vast
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  estate of his as a wife for him. You may be sure I made
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  no difficulties. The match was agreed on and this very day named for the
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  wedding. What hinders the preceding? Don't interrupt me, you know, I
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  was last Thursday at the masquerade. My son, you may remember, soon
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  found us out. He knew his grandfather's habit, which I then wore.
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  And though it was the mode in the last age, yet the maskers,
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  you know, followed us as if we had been the most monstrous figures in
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  that whole assembly. I remember, indeed, a young man of quality in
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  the habit of a clown that was particularly troublesome. Right, he was too
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  much what he seemed to be. You remember how impertinently he followed and teased
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  us and would know who we were. Humphrey aside, I know he has
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  a mind to come into that particular Aye. He followed us till a gentleman
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  who led the lady in the India mantle, presented that gay creature to the
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  rustic and bid him, like Simon in the fable, grow polite by falling
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  in love and let that worthy old gentleman alone, meaning me. The clown
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  was not reformed, but rudely persisted and offered to force off my mask with
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  that the gentleman throwing off his own appeared to be my son, and in
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  his concern for me, tore off that of the nobleman. At this they
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  seized each other, the company called the gods, and in the surprise the
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  lady swooned away, upon which my son quitted his adversary, and had now
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  no care but of a lady. When raising her in his arms, art
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  thou gone, cried he forever forbid it heaven. She revived at his known
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  voice, and with the most familiar, though modest gesture, hangs in safety
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  over his shoulder, weeping, but wept as in the arms of one before
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  whom she could give herself a loose were she not under observation. While she
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  hides her face in his neck, he carefully conveys her from the company.
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  I have observed. This accident has dwelt upon you very strongly. Her uncommon
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  air, her noble modesty, the dignity of her person, and the occasion
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  itself drew the whole assembly together, and I soon heard it buzzed about.
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  She was the adopted daughter of a famous sea officer who had served in France.
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  Now, this unexpected and public discovery of my sons so deep concerned for
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  her, was what I supposed alarmed mister sealand in behalf of his daughter to
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  break off the match. You are right. He came to me yesterday and
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  said he thought himself disengaged from the bargain, being credibly informed my son was
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  already married or worse to the lady at the masquerade. I palliated matters and
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  insisted on our agreement. But we parted with little less than a direct breach
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  between us. Well, sir, and what notice have you taken of all
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  this to my young master? That's what I wanted to debate with you.
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  I have said nothing to him yet, But look, you, Humphrey.
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  If there is so much in this armor of his that he denies upon my
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  summons to marry, I have cause enough to be offended. And then by
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  my insisting upon his marrying to day, I shall know how far he is
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  engaged to this lady in masquerade, and from thence only shall be able to
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  take my measures. In the meantime, I would have you find out how
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  far that rogue his man is let into his secret. He I know,
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  will play tricks as much to cross me as to serve his master. Why
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  do you think of him so, sir? I believe he is no worse
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  than I was for you at your son's age. I see it in the
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  rascal's looks. But I have dwelt on these things too long. I'll go
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  to my son immediately, and while I'm gone, your part is to convince
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  his rogue Tom that I am in earnest. I'll leave him to you.
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  Exit, Sir John Bethel. Well, though this father in Suddon live as
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  well together as possible, yet their fear of giving each other pain is attended
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  with constant mutual uneasiness. I'm sure I have enough to do to be honest
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  and yet keep well with them both. But they know I love him,
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  and that makes the task less painful. However, Oh, here's the prince
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  of poor Coxcomb's, the representative of all the better fed than tought. Ho
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  Ho, Tom whither so gay and so airy this morning? And to Tom
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  singing, sir, we sevens of single gentlemen are another kind of people than
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  you, domestic or no judges that to business, we a race above you.
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  The pleasures of boad wages, tavern dinners and many are clear. Gain
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  theyse alas you never heard or dreamed of. Thou hast folly's and vices enough
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  for a man of ten thousand a year. Oh tis, But as to
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  the day that I sent for you to town to put you into mister Sealand's
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  family, that you might learn a little before I put you to my young
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  master, who is too gentle for twenty such a rude thing as you were,
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  in too proper obedience. You then pulled off your hat to every one
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  you met in the street, like a bashful, great awkward cub as you
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  were. But your great oaken cudgel, when you were a bobby became you
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  much better than that dangling stick got your button. Now you are a fop
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  that's fit for nothing except it hangs there to be ready for your master's hand
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  when you are impertinent. Uncle Humphrey, you know, my master scorns to
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  stroke you sevensok, as if the world was now just as it was when
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  my old master and you were in your youth, when you went to dinner,
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  Because it was so much a clock when the great blow was given in
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  the hall at the pontry door, and all the family came out of the
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  hose in such strange dresses and formal faces as you've seen the pictures in a
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  long gallery in the country. Why you wild rogue. You could not fall
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  to your dinner til a formal fellow in a black gown said something of the
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  meat if the cook had not made it ready enough? Sirrah, who do
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  you prate after the spisy men of sacred characters? I hope you never heard
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  my good young master talked so like a profligant, Sir, I say you
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  put upon me when I first came to town, about being orderly, the
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  doctrine of wearing shamste and linen last clean a fortnight, keeping my clothes fresh,
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  and wearing a frog with indoors. So ah, I gave you those
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  lessons because I supposed at the time your master and you might have dined at
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  home every day and cost you nothing. Then you might have made a good
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  family servant. But the gang you have frequented since at chocolate houses in taverns,
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  in a continual round of noise and extravagance. I don't know what you
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  heavy inmates call noise and extravagance. But we gentlemen, who are well fed
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  and cut a figure, sir, think it a fine life that we must
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  be very pretty fellows who are kept only to be looked at very well,
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  Sir, I hope the fashion of being lewed, an extravagant despising of decency
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  and order, is almost at an end, since it has arrived at persons
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  of your quality, Master Humphrey, you are an unhappy lad to be sent
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  up to town in such queer days as you were. Why now, sir,
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  the lackeys are the men of pleasure of the age. The top gamesters,
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  and many a lace out about town have had their education in our party
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  colored regiment. Her false lovers, have a taste of music, poetry,
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  being do dress, politics, ruined damsels. And when we are tired of
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  this, eleude town and of a mind to take up whip into our master's
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  wigs and linen and merry fortunes hey day. Nay, sir, our order
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  is carried up to the highest dignities and distinctions. Step but into the painted
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  chamber, and by our titles you take us all for men of quality.
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  Then again come down to the court of requests, and you see us all
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  laying our brogrenades together for the good of the nation. And though we never
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  carry a question nemine called to cente at this I can say with a safe
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  conscience, And I wish every gentleman about cloth could lay his and upon his
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  heart and say the same. So I never took so much as a single
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  mug of beer for my version all my life. SA, there is no
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  enduring your extravagance. I'll hear you prayed no longer. I wanted to see
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  you to inquire how things go with your master, as far as you understand
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  them. I suppose he knows he is to be buried to day, Ay,
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  sir, he knows it, and he's dressed as gay as the sun.
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  But between you and I, my dear, he has a very heavy
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  heart and all that gaiety. As soon as he was dressed, I retired,
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  but overheard him sigh in the most heavy manner. He walked thoughtfully to
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  and fro in the room, and went into his closet. When he came
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  out, he gave me this for his mistress. Whose maid you know?
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  It's passionately fond of your fine person. The poor fool is so tender and
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  loves to hear me talk of the world and the plays, operas, and
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  her daughters. For the winter, the parks and bells eides for our summer
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  diversions. And lad says she, you are so wild, but you have
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  a world of humor a coxcomb. Well, but why don't you run with
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  your master's letter to missus Lecinda as he ordered you? Because mister Lecinda is
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  not so easy I come out as you think, for not easily come back?
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  Why Sarah are not her father and my old master agreed that she and
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  mister Bevil are to be one flesh before tomorrow morning. It's no matter for
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  that her mother seems, mister Sealand has not agreed to it. And you
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  must know, Master Humphrey, that in that family, the gray mare is
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  the better horse. What does that mean? In one word, mister Sealand
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  pretends to have a will of her own, and has provided a relation of
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  hers a stiff starched philosopher and a wise fool for her daughter, for which
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  reason, for these ten days past she has suffered no message nor letter from
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  my master to come near her. And where had you This intelligence from a
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  foolish fond server can keep nothing from me one that will deliver this letter to
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  if she is rightly managed? What you're pretty handmaid, and missus phillis even
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  she sir, this is a very hour. You know she usually comes hither
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  under a pretense of a visit to your housekeeper forsooth, but in reality you'd
• 30:22
  have a glance at your sweet face. I warrant you nothing else in nature.
• 30:27
  You must know I love to fet and play with a little wanton,
• 30:30
  play with the little waden. What will this world come to? I met
• 30:37
  her this morning in a new manteau and petticoat not a bit the worse for
• 30:41
  her, lady is wearing, and she's always near thoughts and new airs with
• 30:45
  new clothes. Then she never fails to see some glance or gesture from every
• 30:48
  visit into the house, and indeed the whole town of the Coquettes at second
• 30:53
  hand. But here she comes in one motion. She speaks and describes herself
• 30:57
  better than all the words and world can. Then I hope, dear sir,
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  when your own affair is over, you will be so good as to
• 31:06
  mind your master's with her. Dear Humphrey, you know my master is my
• 31:10
  friend, and those are people I never forget ah sauciness itself. But I'll
• 31:17
  leave you to do your best for him. Exit and to Phyllis, Oh,
• 31:22
  mister Thomas is missus sugarkey at home, that one is almost ashamed to
• 31:27
  pass along the streets. The town is quite empty, and nobody of fashion
• 31:32
  left in it, and the ordinary people do stare to see anything dressed like
• 31:37
  a woman of condition, as if it were on the same floor as them
• 31:41
  pass by. Alas, alas, it is a sad thing to walk,
• 31:47
  Oh, fortune, fortune, what a sad thing to walk? Why,
• 31:52
  Madam Phillis, do you wish yourself lame? No, mister Tom, but
• 31:56
  I wish I would generally carry a coach or a chair, and of a
• 32:02
  fortune neither to stand nor go, but to tatter or slide, to be
• 32:09
  short sighted, or to stare, to fleer in the face, to look
• 32:15
  distant, to observe, to overlook. Yet all become me. And if
• 32:24
  I was rich, I could twire and lull as well as the best of
• 32:29
  them. Ah, Oh, Tom Tom, is it not a pity that
• 32:37
  you should be so great a coxcomb, and I so great a coquette,
• 32:42
  and yet be such poor devils as we are. Mistress Phyllis, I am
• 32:46
  your humble servant for that? Yes, mister Thomas, I know how much
• 32:52
  you are my humble servant, And I know what you said to Miss Judy
• 32:57
  upon seeing her in one of her ladies, lost Monteaus that anyone would have
• 33:02
  thought her the lady, and that she had ordered the other to wear it
• 33:07
  till it sat easy for now only it was becoming to my lady. It
• 33:12
  was only a covering to miss Judy. It was a habit, this you
• 33:16
  said after somebody or other. Oh, Tom, Tom, thou art as
• 33:22
  false in his face as the best gentleman of them all. Ah, But
• 33:27
  you wretch, talk to me no more on the old odious subject, don't
• 33:31
  they say Tom, in a submissive tone, retiring. I know not how
• 33:37
  to resist your commands, madam hah commands about party and are grown mighty easy
• 33:44
  to you of late Tom. Aside, I have a I have nettled and
• 33:51
  put into the right temper to be brought upon and set a prating why truly
• 33:55
  to be playing with you? Missus? Phitllis. I can take little comfort
• 33:59
  of late and frequent pray. Mister Thomas, What is it all of a
• 34:04
  sudden offends your nicety at our house? I don't care to speak particulars,
• 34:07
  but I dislike the whole. Huh, I thank you, sir, I
• 34:14
  am part of that hole. Mistake me not good phyllis, good phillis saucy
• 34:20
  enough. But however, I say, it is that thou art a part
• 34:24
  which gives me pain for the disposition of the whole. You must know,
• 34:29
  madam, to be serious. I am a man at the bottom of prodigious
• 34:31
  nice honor. You are too much exposed to company at your house to be
• 34:37
  plain. I don't like so many that would be your mistress lover's whispering to
• 34:40
  you. Don't think to put that upon me. You say this because I
• 34:45
  wrung you to the heart when I touch your guilty conscience about Judy. Ah,
• 34:50
  phyllis phyllis if you button you my heart, huh, I know too
• 34:57
  much on it. Nay, then poor Chris fate in mine are one.
• 35:01
  Therefore give me later say I'll sing at least as he does upon the same
• 35:05
  occasion, svidity, etc. What do you think I'm to be fobbed off
• 35:14
  with a song? I don't question. But you have sung the same to
• 35:17
  miss Judy too. Don't despair as your charms good phyllis with jealousy of so
• 35:22
  worth this an object. Besides, she is a poor hussy. And if
• 35:27
  you doubt the sincerity of my love, you will allow me true to my
• 35:30
  interest. You are a fortune, Phyllis, What the fuck be it?
• 35:35
  Now? In good time? Indeed you shall be setting up a fortune.
• 35:39
  Dear mistress Phyllis, you have such a spirit that we shall never be done
• 35:43
  in marriage when we come together. But I tell you you are a fortune,
• 35:47
  and you have an estate in my hands. He pulls out a purse.
• 35:52
  She isaac, what pretense have I to? What is in your hands?
• 35:55
  Mister tom As? Thus there are ours. You know? When a
• 36:00
  lady is neither pleased or displeased, neither sick or well, when she lulls
• 36:06
  or loiters, when she is without desires from having more of everything than she
• 36:09
  knows what to do with, Well, what then, when she is not
• 36:15
  life enough to keep her bright eyes quite open to look at her own dear
• 36:19
  image in the glass, explain thyself, and don't be so fond of they
• 36:23
  own pretting. There are also prosperous and good natured moments. Is when a
• 36:29
  knot or a patch is happily fixed, when the complexion particularly flourishes, Well,
• 36:35
  what then I have not patience? Why then? Or on the like
• 36:39
  occasions we servants who have skilled to know how to time business see when such
• 36:45
  a pretty folded thing as this shows a letter may be presented, laid or
• 36:51
  dropped as best suits the present humor and Madam, because it is a long,
• 36:55
  wearisome journey to run through all the several stages of a lady's temper.
• 37:00
  My master, who is the most reasonable man in the world, presents you
• 37:04
  this to bear your charges on the road, gives her the purse. Hah,
• 37:08
  Now you think me a corrupt hussy? Oh fi, I only think
• 37:14
  you'll take the letter. Nay, I know you do, But I know
• 37:19
  my own innocence. I take it for my mistress's sake. I know it,
• 37:23
  my pretty one, I know it. Yes, I say, I
• 37:27
  do it because I would not have my mistress deluded by one who gives no
• 37:30
  proof of his passion. But I'll talk more of tips as you see me
• 37:34
  on my way home. No, Tom, are you sure thee I take
• 37:38
  this trash of thy masters not for the value of the thing, but as
• 37:44
  it convinces me he has a true respect for my mistress. I remember,
• 37:47
  a verse to the purpose. They may be false who languish and complain,
• 37:53
  but they who part with money never fagin excellent, seem to bevil Junior's lodgings
• 38:02
  Bevil Junior reading these moral writers practice virtue after death. This charming vision of
• 38:10
  Mercer, such an author consulted in a morning sets the spirit for the vicissitudes
• 38:15
  of the day better than the glass does a man's person. For what a
• 38:20
  day I have to go through to put on an easy look with an aching
• 38:23
  heart. If this lady my father urges me to marry, should not refuse
• 38:28
  me. My dilemma is insupportable. But why should I fear it? Is
• 38:32
  she not in equal distress with me? Has not the letter I sent her
• 38:37
  this morning confessed my inclination to another? Nay, have I not moral assurances
• 38:42
  of her engagements too? To my friend Myrtle, it's impossible, But she
• 38:46
  must give in to it for sure. To be denied as a favor any
• 38:50
  man may pretend to it must be so. Well. Then, with the
• 38:53
  assurance of being rejected, I think I may confidently say to my father I
• 38:58
  am ready to marry her. Then let me resolve upon what I'm not very
• 39:01
  good at, though is an honest dissimulation? Enter Tom, Sir, John
• 39:07
  Bevill's sair is in the next room, Dunce, why did you not bring
• 39:12
  him in. I told him, say you were in your closet. I
• 39:15
  thought you had known, Sir, it was my duty to see my father
• 39:19
  anywhere, going himself to the door tom aside the devils in my master,
• 39:25
  ye are always more wit than I have bevil Junior introducing Sir John, Sir,
• 39:32
  you are the most gallant, the most complaisant of all parents. Sure
• 39:37
  tis not a compliment to say these lodgings are yours? Why would you not
• 39:40
  walk in? Sir? I was loth to interrupt you unsusonably on your wedding
• 39:45
  day. One to whom I am beholden for my birthday might have used less
• 39:50
  ceremony. All well, son, I have intelligence you have read to your
• 39:54
  mistress this morning. It would please my curiosity to know the contents of a
• 39:59
  way day letter for courtship must then be over. I assure you, sir,
• 40:05
  there is no insolence in it upon the prospect of such a fast fortunes
• 40:08
  being added to our family, but much acknowledgment of the lady's greater dessert.
• 40:14
  But dear Jack, are you in earnest in all this? And will you
• 40:17
  really marry her? Did I ever disobey any command of yours, sir,
• 40:22
  nay any inclination that I saw you bent upon? Why I can't say you
• 40:28
  have son? But methinks in this whole business you have not been so warm
• 40:32
  as I could have wished you. You have visited her, It's true,
• 40:37
  but you have not been particular. Everyone knows you can say and do as
• 40:42
  handsome things as any man. But you have done nothing but lived in the
• 40:45
  general, been complaisant only as I am ever prepared to marry if you bid
• 40:50
  me. So I am ready to let it alone if you will have me.
• 40:52
  Humphreyants unobserved. Look you there, now? Why what am I to
• 41:00
  think of this? So absolute and so indifferent a resignation? Think that I
• 41:05
  am still your son? Sir? You have been married and I have not,
• 41:08
  And you have, sir, found the inconvenience there is when a man
• 41:12
  weds with too much love in his head. I have been told, sir,
• 41:15
  that at the time you married, you made a mighty bustle. On
• 41:19
  the occasion, there was challenging and fighting, scaling wauls, locking up the
• 41:23
  lady and the gallant under an arrest for fear of killing all his rivals.
• 41:28
  Now, Sir, I suppose you have found the ill consequences of these strong
• 41:31
  passions and prejudices in preference of one woman to another in case of a man's
• 41:37
  becoming a widower. How is this, I say, sir, experience has
• 41:43
  made you wiser in your care of me. For Sir, since you lost
• 41:45
  my dear mother, your time has been so heavy, so lonely, and
• 41:51
  so tasteless, that you are so good as to guard me against the like
• 41:53
  unhappiness by marrying me prudently by way of bargain and sale. For as you
• 42:00
  well judge, a woman that is espoused for a fortune is yet a better
• 42:04
  bargain if she dies. For then a man still enjoys what he did marry
• 42:08
  the money, and is disencumbent of what he did not marry the woman.
• 42:13
  But pray, sir, do you think the cinder then, a woman of
• 42:16
  that little merit? Pardon me, sir, I don't care it so far
• 42:22
  neither. I am rather afraid I shall like her too well. She has
• 42:25
  for one of her fortune, a great many, needless and superfluous good qualities.
• 42:30
  I'm afraid, son, there's something I don't see yet, something that's
• 42:35
  smothered under all the raillery. Not in the least, sir, if the
• 42:38
  lady is dressed and ready, you see I am. I suppose the lawyers
• 42:43
  are ready too, Humphrey aside, Oh, this may grow warm if I
• 42:47
  don't interpose, Sir. Mister Sealand is at the coffee house and has sent
• 42:53
  to speak with you. Oh that's well, then I warrant the lawyers already.
• 43:00
  Son, you'll be in the way, you say, If you please,
• 43:04
  sir, I'll take a chair and go to mister Seeland's where the young
• 43:07
  lady and I will wait your leisure. By no means the old fellow will
• 43:13
  be so vain if he sees aye. But the young lady, Sir will
• 43:16
  think me so indifferent. Humphrey aside to bevil Junior. Aye, there you
• 43:22
  are right, press your readiness to go to the bride. He won't let
• 43:28
  you bevil Junior aside to Humphrey, Are you sure of that? How he
• 43:34
  likes being prevented, Sir John bevill looking on his watch. No, No,
• 43:42
  you are an hour or two two early. You'll allow me, sir
• 43:45
  to think it too late to visit a beautiful, virtuous young woman in the
• 43:49
  pride and bloom of life, ready to give herself to my arms and place
• 43:53
  her happiness or misery for the future. In being agreeable or displeasing to me
• 43:59
  is a coola chere No no, no, dear Jack, this ceiling is
• 44:05
  a moody old fellow. There is no dealing with some people, but by
• 44:08
  managing with indifference. We must leave to him the conduct of this day.
• 44:14
  It is the last of his commanding his daughter. Sir, he can't take
• 44:17
  it ill that I am impatient to be hers. Pray let me govern in
• 44:22
  this matter. You can't tell how humorsome some old fellows are. There is
• 44:28
  no offering reason to some of them, especially when they are rich. A
• 44:31
  side. If my son should see him before I brought all ceilin into better
• 44:36
  temper, the match would be impracticable. Humphrey aside to Sir John, pray,
• 44:42
  Sir, let me beg you to let mister Bevill go see whether he
• 44:45
  will or not. Then to Befel, pray, sir, command yourself.
• 44:51
  Since you see my master as positive, it is better you should not go.
• 44:55
  My father commands me asked the object of my affection, but I hope
• 45:00
  he will not ask to the warmth and height of them, So I must
• 45:05
  even leave things as I found them, and in the meantime at least keep
• 45:09
  old siouand out of his sight. Well, son, i'll go myself and
• 45:15
  take orders in your affair. You'll be in the way, I suppose if
• 45:17
  I send to you, I'll leave your old friend with you, Humphrey.
• 45:22
  Don't let him stir. D'ye hear your servant? Your servant exit, Sir
• 45:28
  John. I have a sad time on it, sir, between you and
• 45:32
  my master. I see you are unwilling, and I know his violent inclinations.
• 45:38
  For the match, I must betray neither and yet deceive you both for
• 45:45
  your common good. Heaven grant a good end of this matter. Ah,
• 45:50
  but there's a lady, sir, that gives your father much trouble and sorrow.
• 45:54
  You'll pardon me, Humphrey. I know thou art a friend to both,
• 46:00
  and in that confidence I dare tell thee that lady is a woman of
• 46:04
  honor and virtue. You may assure yourself I never will marry without my father's
• 46:08
  consent, But give me leave to say too. This declaration does not come
• 46:14
  up to a promise that I will take whomsoever he pleases. Come, sir,
• 46:19
  I wholly understand you. You would engage my services to free you from
• 46:22
  this woman whom my master intends you to make way in time for the woman
• 46:29
  you have really a mind to honest, Humphrey, you have always been a
• 46:34
  useful friend my father myself. I beg you continue your good offices, and
• 46:37
  don't let us come to the necessity of dispute. For if we should dispute,
• 46:43
  I must either part with more than life or lose the best of fathers.
• 46:47
  My dear Master, were I but worthy to know this secret that so
• 46:52
  near concerns you my life, my all should be engaged to serve you this,
• 46:59
  sir, I dear promise that I am sure I will and can be
• 47:04
  secret your trust at worst, but leaves you where you were. And if
• 47:08
  I cannot serve you, I will at once be plain and tell you.
• 47:13
  So. That's all I ask. Thou hast made it now my interest to
• 47:16
  trust thee. Be patient then, and hear the story of my heart.
• 47:21
  I am all attention. Sir. You may remember, Humphrey, that in
• 47:25
  my last travels, my father grew uneasy at my making so long a stay
• 47:30
  at Toulon. I remember it. He was apprehensive some woman had laid hold
• 47:35
  of you. His fears were just for there I first saw this lady.
• 47:39
  She is of English birth. Her father's name was Danvers, a younger brother
• 47:45
  of an ancient family, and originally an eminent merchant of Bristol, who,
• 47:49
  upon repeated misfortunes, was reduced to go privately to the Indies. In this
• 47:54
  retreat, Providence again grew favorable to his industry, and in six years time
• 48:00
  restored him to his former fortunes. On this he sent directions over that his
• 48:05
  wife and little family should follow him to the Indies. His wife, impatient
• 48:09
  to obey such welcome orders, would not wait the leisure of a convoy,
• 48:14
  but took the first occasion of a single ship, and with her husband's sister
• 48:17
  only and this daughter, then scarce seven years old, undertook the fatal voyage.
• 48:23
  For here, poor creature, she lost her liberty and life. She
• 48:29
  and her family, with all they had, were unfortunately taken by a privateer
• 48:34
  from Toulon, being thus made a prisoner, though as such not ill treated.
• 48:38
  Yet the fright, the shock and cruel disappointment seized with such violence upon
• 48:44
  her unhealthy frame. She sickened, pined, and died at sea. Poor
• 48:50
  soul. All the helpless infant. Her sister yet survived and had the care
• 48:55
  of her. The captain, too, proved to have humanity and became a
• 49:00
  father to her. For having himself married an englishwoman and being childless, he
• 49:05
  brought her into Toulon with her little countrywoman, presenting her with all her dead
• 49:09
  mother's movables of value to his wife, to be educated as his own adopted
• 49:15
  daughter. Fortune here seemed again to smile on her, only to make her
• 49:20
  frowns more terrible, For in his height of fortune, this captain, too,
• 49:24
  her benefactor, unfortunately, was killed at sea, and dying intestate,
• 49:30
  his estate fol wholly to an advocate, his brother, who, coming to
• 49:34
  take possession there, found among his other riches this blooming virgin. At his
• 49:38
  mercy he durst, not, sir, abuse his power, no wonder if
• 49:45
  his pampered blood was fired at the sight of her. In short, he
• 49:47
  loved. But when all arts and gentle means had failed to move, he
• 49:52
  offered to his menaces in vain, denouncing vengeance on her cruelty, demanding her
• 49:58
  to account for all her maintenance for my childhood, seized on her little fortune
• 50:01
  as his own inheritance, and was dragging her by violence to prison, when
• 50:07
  Providence at the instant interposed and sent me by miracle to relieve her. Twas
• 50:13
  Providence indeed, but pray, sir, after all this trouble, how came
• 50:17
  this lady at last to England? The disappointed advocate, finding she had so
• 50:23
  unexpected a support on cooler thoughts, descended to a composition which I, without
• 50:30
  her knowledge, secretly discharged. That generous concealment made the obligation double. Having
• 50:36
  thus obtained her liberty, I prevailed, not without some difficulty, to see
• 50:40
  her safe to England, where no sooner arrived. But my father, jealous
• 50:46
  of my being imprudently engaged, immediately proposed this other fatal match that hangs upon
• 50:52
  my quiet. I find, sir, you are irrecoverably fixed upon this lady,
• 50:59
  as my five life dwells in my heart. And yet you see what
• 51:02
  I do to please my father, walk in this pageantry of dress, this
• 51:07
  splendid covering of sorrow. But Humphrey, you have your lesson now, Sir,
• 51:14
  I have but one material question. Ask it freely? Is it then
• 51:19
  your own passion for this secret lady or hers for you, that gives you
• 51:23
  this aversion to the match your father has proposed you. I shall appear,
• 51:29
  Humphrey, more romantic in my answer than in all the rest of my story.
• 51:34
  For though I dote on her to death, and have no little reason
• 51:37
  to believe she has the same thoughts for me, Yet in all my acquaintance
• 51:43
  and utmost privacies with her, I never once directly told her that I loved
• 51:47
  How was it possible to avoid it? My tender obligations to my father have
• 51:53
  laid so inviolable a restraint upon my conduct that till I have his consent to
• 51:59
  speak, I am determined on that subject to be dumb forever. Well,
• 52:05
  Sir, to your praise, be it spoken. You are certainly the most
• 52:07
  unfashionable lover in Great Britain. And to Tom, Sir, Master Mergle's at
• 52:15
  the next door, and if you are at leisure, we'll be glad to
• 52:17
  wait on you whenever he pleases. Hold Tom, did you receive no answer
• 52:22
  to my letter? Sir? I was desired to call again, for I
• 52:27
  was told him mother would not let her be out of her sight. But
• 52:30
  about an hour hence Mistress Lettis said, I should certainly have one very well
• 52:36
  exit, Tom, Sir, I will take another opportunity. In the meantime,
• 52:43
  I only think it proper to tell you that from a secret I know
• 52:46
  you may appear to your father as forward as you please to marry Lucinda without
• 52:52
  the least hazard of its coming to a conclusion, Sir, your most obedient
• 52:58
  servant, honestly, Humphrey, continue but my friend in this exigence, and
• 53:04
  you shall always find me yours Exit, Humphrey. I long to hear how
• 53:08
  my letter has succeeded with Lucinda, but I think it cannot fail, for
• 53:14
  at worst, where I possible she could take it ill. Her resentment of
• 53:19
  my indifference may as probably occasion a delay as her taking it right. Poor
• 53:23
  Mertal, what terrors must he be in in all this? While, since
• 53:28
  he knows she is offered to me and refuse to him, there is no
• 53:31
  conversing or taking any measures with him for his own service. But I ought
• 53:37
  to bear with my friend and use him as one in adversity. All his
• 53:43
  disquiets by my own I prove the greatest grief's perplexity in love. Exit end
• 53:52
  of Act one, Act the second seen one Bevilginior's lodgings. Enter Bevil Junior
• 54:01
  and Tom sir master myrtle very well, do you step again and wait for
• 54:07
  an answer to my letter? Exit tom enter myrtle well, Charles, why
• 54:15
  so much care in thy countenance is though anything in this world deserves it?
• 54:21
  You, who used to be so gay, so opened, so vacant.
• 54:24
  I think we have of late changed complexions. You, who used to be
• 54:30
  much the graver man, are now all air in your behavior. But the
• 54:34
  cause of my concern may for aught, I know, be the same object
• 54:37
  that gives you all this satisfaction. In a word, I am told that
• 54:42
  you are this very day, and your dress confirms it to me to be
• 54:45
  married to Lucinda. You are not misinformed, nay, put not on the
• 54:51
  terrors of arrival till you hear me out. I shall disoblige the best of
• 54:54
  fathers if I don't seem ready to marry Lucinda. And you know I have
• 55:00
  ever told you you might make use my secret resolution never to marry her for
• 55:05
  your own service as you please. But I am now driven to the extremity
• 55:09
  of immediately refusing or complying unless you help me to escape the match. Escape
• 55:16
  Sir, neither her merit or her fortune are below your acceptance. Escaping do
• 55:22
  you call it? Dear sir? Do you wish I should desire the match?
• 55:28
  No? But such is my humorous and sickly state of mind, since
• 55:31
  it has been able to relish nothing but Lescinda that, though I may owe
• 55:36
  my happiness to your aversion to this marriage, I can't bear to hear her
• 55:39
  spoken of with levity or unconcern. Pardon me, sir, I shall transgress
• 55:45
  that way no more. She has understanding, beauty, shape, complexion,
• 55:51
  wit, Nay, Dear Beviel, don't speak of her as if you loved
• 55:54
  her? Neither? Why then, to give you ease at once? Though
• 55:59
  I allow LOUSI to have good sense, wit, beauty, and virtue,
• 56:02
  I know another in whom these qualities appear to me more amiable than in her.
• 56:08
  There you spoke like a reasonable and good natured friend, when you acknowledge
• 56:14
  her merit and own your prepossession for another, and once you gratify my fondness
• 56:19
  and cure my jealousy. But all this while you take no notice. You
• 56:22
  have no apprehension of another man that has twice the fortune of either of us.
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  Simburton hang him a formal philosophical pedantic Coxcomb for that sought. With all
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  these crude notions of divers things under the direction of great vanity and very little
• 56:39
  judgment, shows his strongest bias and avarice, which is so predominant in him
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  that he will examine the limbs of his mistress with the caution of a jockey,
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  and pays no more compliment to her personal charms than if she were a
• 56:52
  mere breeding animal. Are you sure that is not affected? I have known
• 56:55
  some women soon are set on fire by that sort of negligence. No,
• 57:00
  no, hang him. The rogue has no art. It is pure simple
• 57:05
  insolence and stupidity. Yet with all this I don't take him for a fool.
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  I own the man is not unnatural. He is a very quick sense,
• 57:15
  though very slow understanding. He says, indeed, many things that want
• 57:20
  only the circumstances of time and place to be very just and agreeable. Well,
• 57:25
  you may be sure of me if you can disappoint him. But my
• 57:29
  intelligence says the mother has actually sent for the convincer to draw articles for his
• 57:34
  marriage with Lucinda. So those for mine with her are by her father's orders,
• 57:39
  ready for signing. But it seems she has not thought fit to consult
• 57:44
  either him or his daughter in the matter, Shah, a poor troublesome woman.
• 57:50
  Neither Lucinda nor her father will ever be brought to comply with it.
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  Besides, I am sure Simberton can make no settlement upon her without the concurrence
• 57:59
  of his great uncle, Sir Jeoffrey in the West. Well, Sir,
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  and I can tell you that's the very point that is now laid before her
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  council, to know whether a firm settlement can be made without his uncle's actual
• 58:13
  joining in it. Now, pray consider, sir, when my affair with
• 58:16
  Lucinda comes, as it soon must, to an open rupture, how are
• 58:21
  you sure that Symbaton's fortune may not then tempt her father too to hear his
• 58:27
  proposals? There you are right, indeed, that must be provided against.
• 58:31
  Do you know who are her counsel? Yes, for your service, I
• 58:36
  have found out that too. They are Sergeant Bramble and Old Target. By
• 58:42
  the way, they are neither of them known in the family. Now I
• 58:45
  was thinking why you might not put a couple of false counsel upon her to
• 58:50
  delay and confound matters a little? Besides, it may probably let you into
• 58:54
  the bottom of her whole design against you as how, pray, why can't
• 59:00
  you slip on a black wig and a gown and be old bramble yourself?
• 59:05
  Huh. I don't dislike it, But what shall I do for a brother
• 59:08
  in the case, What think you of my fellow Tom? The rogue's intelligent
• 59:14
  and is a good mimic. All his part will be but to stutter heartily,
• 59:17
  for that's old target's case. Nay, it would be an immorl thing
• 59:22
  to mock him, were it not that his impertinence is the occasion of its
• 59:25
  breaking out. To that degree, the conduct of the scene will chiefly lie
• 59:30
  upon you. I like it of all things. If you'll send Tom to
• 59:35
  my chambers, I will give him full instructions. This will certainly give me
• 59:38
  occasion to raise difficulties, to puzzle or confound her project for a while at
• 59:43
  least, oh warrant you success. So far we are right then, and
• 59:47
  now, Charles, your apprehension of my marrying her is all you have to
• 59:52
  get over, dear Bevel, though I know you are my friend, Yet
• 59:57
  when I abstract myself from my own interest in I know no objection she can
• 1:00:01
  make to you or you to her. And therefore hope dear myrtle, I'm
• 1:00:07
  as much obliged to you for the cause of your suspicion as I am offended
• 1:00:10
  at the effect. But be assured I am taking measures for your certain security,
• 1:00:16
  and that all things with regard to me will end in your entire satisfaction.
• 1:00:22
  Well, I'll promise you to be as easy and as confident as I
• 1:00:25
  can, though I cannot but remember that I have more than life at stake
• 1:00:30
  on your fidelity going then depend upon it. You have no chance against you,
• 1:00:37
  Nay, no ceremony. You know I must be going, exit,
• 1:00:40
  myrtle. Well, this is another instance of the perplexities which arise to in
• 1:00:46
  faithful friendship. We must often in this life go on in our good offices,
• 1:00:52
  even under the displeasure of those to whom we do them in compassion to
• 1:00:57
  their weaknesses and mistakes. But all this while poor Indiana is tortured with the
• 1:01:02
  doubt of me. She has no support or comfort but in my fidelity.
• 1:01:07
  Yet she sees me daily pressed to marriage with another. How painful in such
• 1:01:13
  a crisis must be every hour she thinks on me. I'll let her see
• 1:01:17
  at least my conduct to her he is not changed. I'll take this opportunity
• 1:01:22
  to visit her. For though the religious vow I have made to my father
• 1:01:27
  restrains me from ever marrying without his approbation, yet that confines me not from
• 1:01:32
  seeing a virtuous woman. That is the pure delight my eyes and the guiltless
• 1:01:39
  joy of my heart. But the best condition of human life is but a
• 1:01:45
  gentler misery. To hope for perfect happiness is vain, and love has ever
• 1:01:52
  its allays of pain exit seemed to in Indiana's lodgings, and Isabella and Indiana.
• 1:02:05
  Yes, I say to his artifice, dear child, I say to
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  thee again and again tis all skill and management? Will you persuade me there
• 1:02:15
  can be an ill design in supporting me in the condition of a woman of
• 1:02:19
  quality, attended, dressed and lodged like one, in my appearance abroad,
• 1:02:24
  and my furniture at home, every way in the most sumptuous manner. And
• 1:02:29
  he that does it has an artifice a design in it. Yes, yes,
• 1:02:35
  and all this without so much as explaining to me that all about me
• 1:02:38
  comes from him. Ay Ay, the more for that that keeps the title
• 1:02:44
  to all you have, the more in him, the more in him he
• 1:02:47
  scorns the thought, then he he he well be not so eager if he's
• 1:02:57
  an ill man. Let us look into history, jims. Here is another
• 1:03:00
  of them showing a letter. Here's two hundred and fifty pounds in bank notes
• 1:03:07
  with these words to pay for the set of dressing plate, which will be
• 1:03:12
  brought home to morrow. Why, dear aunt, now here's another piece of
• 1:03:16
  skill for you, which I own. I cannot comprehend. And it is
• 1:03:21
  with a bleeding heart I hear you say anything to the disadvantage of mister Beville.
• 1:03:25
  When he is present, I look upon him as one to whom I
• 1:03:29
  owe my life and the support of it. Then again as the man who
• 1:03:34
  loves me with sincerity and honor. When his eyes are cast another way and
• 1:03:38
  I dare survey him, my heart is painfully divided between shame and love.
• 1:03:45
  Oh, could I tell you, Ah, you need not I imagine all
• 1:03:50
  this for you. This is my state of mind in his presence, and
• 1:03:54
  when he is absent, you are ever dinning my years with notions of the
• 1:03:59
  arts of men, that his hidden bounty, his respectful conduct, his careful
• 1:04:03
  provision for me, after his preserving me from utmost misery, or certain signs
• 1:04:10
  he means nothing but to make I know not what of me. Oh,
• 1:04:14
  you have a sweet opinion of him. Truly I have when I am with
• 1:04:19
  him. Ten thousand things besides my sex is natural distance in shame to suppress
• 1:04:26
  my heart that yearns to think, to praise, to say it loves him.
• 1:04:30
  I say, thus it is with me while I see him, and
• 1:04:33
  in his absence I am entertained with nothing but your endeavors to tear this amiable
• 1:04:40
  image from my heart, and in its stead to place a base dissembler,
• 1:04:45
  an artful invader of my happiness, my innocence, my honor. Ah,
• 1:04:50
  poor soul, has not his plot taken? Don't you die for him?
• 1:04:57
  Has not the way he has taken been the most proper with you? Oh?
• 1:05:00
  Oh, he has sense and has judged the thing right. Go on,
• 1:05:06
  then, since nothing can answer you, say what your will of him?
• 1:05:11
  Hey ho, hey ho. Indeed, it is better to say so
• 1:05:15
  as you are now than as many others are. There are among the destroyers
• 1:05:21
  of women, the gentle, the generous, the mild, the affable,
• 1:05:27
  the humble, who all, soon after their success in their designs, turned
• 1:05:31
  to the contrary. Of those characters. I will own to you mister Bevil
• 1:05:36
  carries his hypocrisy the best of any man living. But still he is a
• 1:05:42
  man and therefore a hypocrite. They have usurped an exemption from shame for any
• 1:05:48
  baseness, any cruelty towards us. They embrace without love, They make vows
• 1:05:55
  without conscience of obligation. They are partners, nay see uceus to the crime,
• 1:06:01
  wherein they pretend to be less guilty Indiana aside. That's truly observed.
• 1:06:10
  But what's all this? To Beville? This it is to Bevil and all
• 1:06:15
  mankind trust not those who will think the worse of you for your confidence in
• 1:06:19
  them, serpents who lie in wait for doves. Won't you be on your
• 1:06:25
  guard against those who would betray you? Won't you doubt those who would contend
• 1:06:30
  you for believing em? Take it from me, fair and natural dealing is
• 1:06:34
  to invite injuries, tis bleating to escape wolves who would devour you. Such
• 1:06:41
  is the world aside, and such since the behavior of one man to myself
• 1:06:47
  have I believed all the rest of the sex. I will not doubt the
• 1:06:53
  truth of Beville. I will not doubt it. He has not spoke of
• 1:06:57
  it by an organ, that is given to lying. His eyes are all
• 1:07:00
  that have ever told me that he was mine. I know his virtue,
• 1:07:05
  I know his filial piety, and ought to trust his management with the father
• 1:07:10
  to whom he has uncommon obligations. What have I to be concerned? For?
• 1:07:15
  My lesson is very short if he takes me forever. My purpose of
• 1:07:19
  life is only to please him. If he leaves me, which heaven avert,
• 1:07:25
  I know he'll do it nobly, and I shall have nothing to do
• 1:07:29
  but to learn to die after worse than death has happened to me. I
• 1:07:33
  do persist in your credulity, flatter yourself that a man of his figure and
• 1:07:40
  fortune will make himself the jest of the town and marry a handsome beggar for
• 1:07:45
  love the town. I must tell him, Madam, the fools that laugh
• 1:07:50
  at mister Beville will but make themselves more ridiculous. His actions are the results
• 1:07:56
  of thinking, and he has sense enough to make even virtue fushable. Oh
• 1:08:00
  my conscience, he has turned her head. Come. Come, if he
• 1:08:05
  were the honest fool you take him for, why has he kept you here
• 1:08:10
  these three weeks without sending you to Bristol in search of your father? Your
• 1:08:15
  family and your relations. I am convinced he still designs it, and that
• 1:08:21
  nothing keeps him here but the necessity of not coming to an open breach with
• 1:08:26
  his father in regard to the match he has proposed him. Besides, has
• 1:08:30
  he not wit to Bristol? And has not he advised that my father has
• 1:08:35
  not been heard of there almost this twenty years all sham mere evasion. He
• 1:08:44
  is afraid if he should carry you thither, your honest relations may take you
• 1:08:47
  out of his hands, and so blow up all his wicked hopes at once
• 1:08:53
  wicked hopes. Did I ever give him any search? Has he ever given
• 1:08:58
  you any honest one? Can you say in your conscience he has ever once
• 1:09:03
  offered to marry you? No? But by his behavior I am convinced he
• 1:09:09
  will offer it the moment it is in his power or consistent with his honor
• 1:09:14
  to make such a promise good to me his honor, I will rely upon
• 1:09:18
  it. Therefore, desire, you will not make my life uneasy by these
• 1:09:24
  ungrateful jealousies of one to whom I am and wish to be obliged for from
• 1:09:29
  his integrity alone, I have resolved to hope for happiness. Nay, I
• 1:09:34
  have done my duty. If you won't see at your peril be it,
• 1:09:40
  let it be. This is his hour of visiting me. No to be
• 1:09:45
  sure, keep up your form. Don't see him in a bedchamber a part.
• 1:09:50
  This is pure prudence. When she is liable wherever he meets her,
• 1:09:56
  to be conveyed where'er he pleases. All the rest of my life is but
• 1:10:00
  waiting till he comes. I live only when I'm with him. Exit,
• 1:10:06
  Well go thy ways, thou wilful, innocent aside. I once had almost
• 1:10:13
  as much love for a man who poorly left me to marry Ana State.
• 1:10:17
  And I am now, against my will, what they call an old maid.
• 1:10:21
  But I will not let the peevishness of that condition grow upon me.
• 1:10:27
  Only keep up the suspicion of it, to prevent this creature's being any other
• 1:10:30
  than a virgin, except upon proper terms. Exit, re enter Indiana.
• 1:10:39
  Speaking to a servant, desire mister Bell to walk in design impossible. A
• 1:10:45
  base designing mind could never think of what he hourly puts in practice. And
• 1:10:50
  yet since the late rumor of his marriage, he seems more reserved than formerly.
• 1:10:57
  He sends in two before he sees me to know if I am at
• 1:11:00
  leisure, such new respects may cover coldness in the heart. It certainly makes
• 1:11:05
  me thoughtful. I'll know the worst at once. I'll lay such fair occasions
• 1:11:11
  in his way that it shall be impossible to avoid an explanation, for these
• 1:11:15
  doubts are insupportable. But see he comes and clears them all. And to
• 1:11:20
  bevil, madam, you're most obedient. I'm afraid I broke in upon your
• 1:11:27
  rest last night. Twas very late before we parted, but twas your own
• 1:11:30
  fault. I never saw you in such agreeable humor. I am extremely glad
• 1:11:35
  we were both pleased, for I thought I never saw you better company me.
• 1:11:41
  Madam, you rally. I said very little, but I am afraid
• 1:11:45
  you heard me say a great deal. And when a woman is in the
• 1:11:48
  talking vein, the most agreeable thing a man can do, you know,
• 1:11:53
  is to have patience to hear her. Then it's pity, madam, you
• 1:11:57
  should ever be silent, that we might be always agreeable to one another.
• 1:12:01
  If I had your talent or power to make my actions speak for me,
• 1:12:05
  I might indeed be silent, and you can pretend to something more than the
• 1:12:10
  agreeable. If I might be vain of anything in my power, Madam,
• 1:12:14
  tis that my understanding from all your sex has marked you out as the most
• 1:12:18
  deserving object of my steam. Should I think I deserve this? Twere enough
• 1:12:24
  to make my vanity forfeit the very steam you offer me? How so,
• 1:12:29
  madam, because the steam is the result of reason, and to deserve it
• 1:12:33
  from good sense, the height of human glory. Nay, I had rather
• 1:12:38
  a man of honor should pay me that than all the homage of a sincere
• 1:12:43
  and humble love you certainly distinguish, right, madam. Love often kindles from
• 1:12:48
  external merit only, but a stem rises from a higher source, the merit
• 1:12:54
  of the soul. True and great souls only can deserve it respectfully. Now
• 1:13:01
  I think they are greater still that can so charitably part with it? Now,
• 1:13:06
  madam, you make me vain, since the utmost pride and pleasure of
• 1:13:11
  my life is that I esteem you as I ought Indiana aside as he owed
• 1:13:18
  still more perplexing, he neither saves nor kills my hope. But Madam,
• 1:13:25
  we grow grave, methinks, Let's find some other subject. Pray, how
• 1:13:29
  did you like the opera last night? First? Give me leave to thank
• 1:13:32
  you for my digits, oh your servant, madam. But pray tell me
• 1:13:38
  you now, who are never partial to the fashion? I fancy you must
• 1:13:42
  be the properest judge of a mighty dispute among the ladies, that is,
• 1:13:45
  whether Crispo or Griselda is the more agreeable entertainment with submission. Now, I
• 1:13:53
  cannot be a proper judge of this question, how so, madam, because
• 1:13:58
  I find I have a partiality for one of them. Pray, which is
• 1:14:01
  that I do not know. There's something in that rural cottage of Griselda,
• 1:14:06
  her forlorn condition, her poverty, her solitude, her resignation, her innocent
• 1:14:13
  slumbers, and that lalling doul to Sonya that sung over her. It had
• 1:14:18
  an effect upon me that, in short, I never was so well deceived
• 1:14:23
  at any of them. Oh, now, then I can account for the
• 1:14:27
  dispute Griselda, it seems, is the distress of an injured, innocent woman
• 1:14:31
  Crispo, that only of a man in the same condition. Therefore, the
• 1:14:35
  men are mostly concerned for Crispo, and by natural indulgence both sexes for Griselda.
• 1:14:43
  So that judgment you think owe to be for one, though fancy and
• 1:14:46
  complaisance have got ground for the other. Well, I believe you will never
• 1:14:51
  give me leave to dispute with you on any subject, For I own Crispo
• 1:14:56
  has its charms for me too. Though in the main all the pleasure the
• 1:15:00
  best opera gives us is but mere sensation. Methinks it's beeedy. The mind
• 1:15:05
  can't have a little more share in the entertainment. The music's certainly fine,
• 1:15:11
  But in my thoughts there's none of your composers come up to all Shakespeare and
• 1:15:15
  out way, How madam, Why if a woman of your sense were to
• 1:15:18
  say this in a drawing room and to a servant, Sir, he's in
• 1:15:25
  your Carbinelli says, he waits your commands in the next room. Apropos you
• 1:15:30
  were saying yesterday, madam, you had a mind to hear him. Will
• 1:15:33
  you give him leave to entertain you? Now? By all means, desire
• 1:15:38
  the gentleman to walk in exit, servant. I fancy you'll find something in
• 1:15:44
  this hand that is uncommon. You're always finding ways, mister Bevil, to
• 1:15:48
  make life seem less tidious to me and to music master. When the gentleman
• 1:15:55
  pleases after a sonata is played, Bevil, wait, it's from the master
• 1:16:00
  to the door, et cetera. You smile, madam, to see me
• 1:16:04
  so complaisant to one whom I pay for his visit. Now, I own
• 1:16:09
  I think it is not enough barely to pay those whose talents are superior to
• 1:16:13
  our own. I mean such talents as would become our condition if we had
• 1:16:17
  them. Methinks we ought to do something more than barely gratify them for what
• 1:16:23
  they do at our command, only because their fortune is below us, you
• 1:16:28
  say, I smile. I assure you it was a smile of approbation.
• 1:16:31
  For indeed, I cannot but think it the distinguishing part of a gentleman to
• 1:16:36
  make his superiority of fortune as easy to his inferiors as he can. Aside
• 1:16:43
  now once more to try him, I was saying, just now, I
• 1:16:47
  believed you would never let me dispute with you, and I dare say it
• 1:16:51
  will always be so. However, I must have your opinion upon a subject
• 1:16:57
  which created a debate between my aunt and me just before you came hither.
• 1:17:01
  She would needs have it that no man ever does an extraordinary kindness or service
• 1:17:06
  for a woman but for his own sake. Well, madam, indeed,
• 1:17:12
  I can't but be of her mind, What though he should maintain and support
• 1:17:16
  her without demanding anything of her on her part? Why madam, is making
• 1:17:21
  an expense in the service of a valuable woman? For such I must suppose
• 1:17:27
  her, though she should never do him any favor, Nay, though she
• 1:17:30
  should never know who did her such service, such a mighty heroic business.
• 1:17:36
  Certainly I should think he must be a man of an uncommon mold. Dear
• 1:17:41
  Madam, Why so tis but at best a better taste in expense to bestow
• 1:17:46
  upon one whom he may think one of the ornaments of the whole creation,
• 1:17:51
  to be conscious that from his superfluity, an innocent, a virtuous spirit is
• 1:17:58
  supported above the temptation and sorrows of life, that he sees satisfaction, health,
• 1:18:03
  and gladness in her countenance, while he enjoys the happiness of seeing her
• 1:18:09
  as that I will suppose to. Or he must be too abstracted to insensible,
• 1:18:14
  I say, if he is allowed to delight in that prospect alas,
• 1:18:17
  what mighty matter is there in all this? No mighty martyr in so does
• 1:18:23
  interested a friendship disinterested? I can't think him so, Your hero, Madam,
• 1:18:29
  is no more than what every gentleman ought to be, and I believe
• 1:18:33
  very many are. He is only one who takes more delight in reflections than
• 1:18:39
  in sensations. He is more pleased with thinking than eating. That's the utmost
• 1:18:45
  you can say of him. Why, Madam, a greater expense than all
• 1:18:47
  this men lay out upon an unnecessary stable of horses? Can you be sincere
• 1:18:54
  in what you say? You may depend upon it if you know any such
• 1:18:58
  man. He does not love dogs inordinately, know that he does not nor
• 1:19:03
  carts, nor dice, no, nor bottle companions, no, nor loose
• 1:19:11
  wimen. No, I'm sure he does not. Take my word. Then,
• 1:19:15
  if your admired hero is not liable to any of these kinds of demands,
• 1:19:19
  there's no such pre eminence in this as you imagine. Nay, this
• 1:19:24
  way of expense you speak of is what exalts and raises him that has a
• 1:19:29
  taste for it. And at the same time his delight is incapable of satiety,
• 1:19:34
  disgust, or penitence. But still I insist his having no private interest
• 1:19:41
  in the action makes it prodigious, almost incredible. Dear madam, I never
• 1:19:45
  know you more mistaken. Why who can be more a usurer? Than he
• 1:19:50
  who lays out his money in such valuable purchases. If pleasure be worth purchasing,
• 1:19:57
  how great a pleasure is it to him who has a true taste of
• 1:20:00
  life to ease an aching heart, to see the human countenance lighted up into
• 1:20:05
  smiles of joy on the receipt of a bit of awe, which is superfluous
• 1:20:12
  and otherwise useless in a man's own pocket. What could a man do better
• 1:20:15
  with his cash? This is the effect of a human disposition, where there
• 1:20:20
  is only a general tie of nature and common necessity. What then, must
• 1:20:25
  it be when we serve an object of merit of admiration? Well, the
• 1:20:30
  more you argue against it, the more I shall admire the generosity. Nay,
• 1:20:35
  nay, then, Madam, tis time to fly. After a declaration
• 1:20:40
  that my opinion strengthens my adversary's argument, I had best hasten to my appointment
• 1:20:45
  with mister Myrtle, and begone, while we are friends, and before things
• 1:20:49
  are brought to an extremity, Exit carelessly, enter Isabella. Well, madam,
• 1:21:00
  what think you of him? Now? Pray? I protest? I
• 1:21:02
  begin to fear he is wholly disinterested in what he does for me on my
• 1:21:08
  heart. He has no other view but the mere pleasure of doing it,
• 1:21:12
  and has neither good or bad designs upon me. Ah, dear niece,
• 1:21:17
  don't be in fear of both. I'll warrant you you will know time enough
• 1:21:23
  that he is not indifferent. You please me when you tell me so,
• 1:21:28
  For if he has any wishes towards me, I know he will not pursue
• 1:21:31
  them, but with honor. I wish I were as confident of one as
• 1:21:36
  t'other. I saw the respectful downcast of his eye when you caught him gazing
• 1:21:42
  at you during the music. He, I warrant, was surprised, as
• 1:21:46
  if he had been taken stealing your watch. Oh, the undissembled guilty look.
• 1:21:54
  But did you observe any such thing? Really? I thought she looked
• 1:21:57
  most charmingly graceful. How engaging is modesty in a man when one knows there
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  is a great mind within, so tender a confusion, and yet in other
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  respects so much himself, so collected, so dauntless, so determined, Ah
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  niece. There is a sort of bashfulness which is the best engine to carry
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  on a shameless purpose. Some men's modesty serves their wickedness, as hypocrisy gains
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  the respect due to piety. But I will own to you there is one
• 1:22:30
  hopeful symptom, if there could be such a thing as a disinterested lover.
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  But it's all a perplexity. Till till till till what till I know whether
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  mister Myrtle and mister Bevel are really friends or foes, And that I will
• 1:22:48
  be convinced of before I sleep. For you shall not be deceived. I'm
• 1:22:55
  sure I never shall. If your fears can guard me. In the meantime,
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  I'll wrap myself up in the integrity of my own heart, nor dare
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  to doubt if his as conscious honor all his actions stirs so conscious innocence dispels
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  my fears. Excellent end of fact two Act the third scene, Celan's house,
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  Enter tom meeting Phyllis, Well, Phyllis, what with the faces if
• 1:23:28
  you've never seen me before? Aside, what a work of art to do?
• 1:23:31
  Now? She has seen some new visiting at the house whose heir she
• 1:23:34
  has caught, is resolved to practice them upon me. Numberless or the changes
• 1:23:40
  shall dance through before she'll answer this plain question be deleted. It have you
• 1:23:44
  delivered my master's out of your lady. Nay, I know too well to
• 1:23:47
  ask an account of it in an ordinary way. I'll be in my heirs
• 1:23:50
  as well as she well, Madam, as unhappy as you are at present,
• 1:23:56
  please to make me. I would not, in the general be any
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  other than what I am. I would not be a bit wiser, a
• 1:24:01
  bit rich, a bit taller, bit shorter than I am at this instant,
• 1:24:04
  looking steadfastly at her, did ever anybody doubt, Master Thomas, but
• 1:24:10
  that you were extremely satisfied with your sweet self? I am Indeed. The
• 1:24:15
  thing I have least reason to be satisfied with is my fortune, and I
• 1:24:18
  am glad of my poverty. Perhaps if I were rich, I should overlook
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  the finest woman in the world that wants nothing but riches to be thought so
• 1:24:28
  phyllis aside, how prettily that was said. But I have a great deal
• 1:24:32
  more before I say one word, or perhaps have been stupidly above her had
• 1:24:38
  I not been a equal. By not being a equal, never had opportunity
• 1:24:42
  of being a slave. I am my master's servant for hire, I am
• 1:24:45
  my mistress's from choice. Would she but approve my passion? I think it's
• 1:24:50
  the first time I ever heard you speak with any sense of anguish if you
• 1:24:54
  really do suffer any ah phyllis, can you doubt after what you have seen?
• 1:25:00
  I know not what I have seen nor what I have heard. But
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  since I am at leisure, you may tell me when you fell in love
• 1:25:05
  with me, how you fell in love with me, and what you have
• 1:25:09
  suffered or are ready to suffer for me tom aside the unmerciful jade. And
• 1:25:15
  I am in haste about my Master's letter, but I must go through it.
• 1:25:20
  Ah so well. I remember when and how, and on what occasion
• 1:25:24
  I was first surprised. It was on the first of April seventeen fifteen.
• 1:25:29
  I came into Master Seilian service. I was then a hobbled away and you
• 1:25:32
  a pretty little tight girl, a favorite handmaid of the housekeeper. At that
• 1:25:38
  time, we neither us knew what was in us. I remember I was
• 1:25:41
  ordered to get out of the window one pair of stairs to rub the sashes
• 1:25:44
  clean. The person employed on the inner side was your charming self, whom
• 1:25:47
  I had never seen before. Ha ha, I think I remember the silly
• 1:25:53
  accident. What made you you off ready to fall down into the street.
• 1:25:59
  You know not I warned you you couldnot guess what surprised me. You took
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  no delight when you immediately grew want in your conquest, and put your lips
• 1:26:05
  close and breathed upon the glass. And when my lips approached a dirty cloth,
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  he rubbed against my face and hid your beauteous form. When I again
• 1:26:15
  drew near, you spit and rubbed and smiled at my undoing. What silly
• 1:26:19
  thoughts you men have? We were pyramids, and thisby but ten times harder
• 1:26:25
  was my fate. Pyramists could peep only through a wall. I saw her,
• 1:26:30
  saw my thisbian, all her beauty, but as much kept from her
• 1:26:32
  as if a hundred wall was between. For there was more, there was
• 1:26:36
  her will against me. Would she but yet relent? Oh Phyllis, Oh
• 1:26:42
  Phyllis, shortened my torments, and the clear you pity me. I believe
• 1:26:45
  it's very sufferable. The pain is not so exquisite, but that you may
• 1:26:49
  bear it a little longer, Oh, my charming Phyllis. If all depended
• 1:26:54
  on my fair ones, well I could with glory suffer. But dearest creature,
• 1:26:59
  consider I'm miserable, state, how miserable we are miserable to be in
• 1:27:03
  love and are in the command of others than those we love, that generous
• 1:27:09
  passion in the heart to be sent to and fro on errands, cold checked
• 1:27:12
  and rated for the meanest trifles. Oh, Phyllis, you don't know how
• 1:27:16
  many china cups and glasses my passion for you has made me break. You
• 1:27:20
  have broke my fortune as well as my heart. Well, mister Thomas,
• 1:27:27
  I cannot but own to you that I believe your master rights, and you
• 1:27:30
  speak the best of any men in the world. Never was a woman so
• 1:27:33
  pleased with a letter as my young lady was with his. And this is
• 1:27:38
  the answer to it. Gives him a letter. This was well done,
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  My dearest. Consider we must strike out some pretty livelihood of ourselves by closing
• 1:27:47
  their affairs. It will be nothing for them to give us a little being
• 1:27:50
  of our own, some small tenement out of their large possessions. Whatever they
• 1:27:56
  give us, it will be more than what they keep for themselves. One
• 1:28:00
  acre with Phyllis would be worth a whole county without her. Oh, could
• 1:28:03
  I but believe you? If not the utterance believe the touch of my lips
• 1:28:10
  kisses her. Ah, there's no contradicting you, how closely you argue Tom,
• 1:28:17
  and we'll closer and due time. But I must hasten this letter to
• 1:28:23
  hasten towards the possession of you. Then Phyllis, consider how I must be
• 1:28:27
  revenged. Look to it of all your skittishness, shy looks, and at
• 1:28:31
  best but coy compliances. Oh Tom, you grow want done and sensual,
• 1:28:38
  as my lady calls it, I must not endure it. Oh you are
• 1:28:44
  a man and odious, filthy male creature. You should behave if you had
• 1:28:49
  a right sense over a man of sense like mister Simburton, with distance and
• 1:28:57
  indifference, or let me see some other becoming hard word with seeming in in
• 1:29:06
  inadvertency, and not rush on one as if you were seizing a prey.
• 1:29:13
  But hush, the ladies are coming. Good, Tom, don't kiss me
• 1:29:17
  above once and be gone, lud. We have been fooling in toying and
• 1:29:24
  not considered the main business of our masters and mistresses. Why their business is
• 1:29:29
  to be fooling and toying. As soon as the parchments are ready, well
• 1:29:32
  remembered parchments, my lady, to my knowledge, is preparing writings between her
• 1:29:40
  Coxcomb cousin Simberton and my mistress. Though my master has an eye to the
• 1:29:45
  parchments already prepared between your master, mister Bevell, and my mistress. And
• 1:29:51
  I believe my mistress herself has signed and sealed in her heart to mister myrtle.
• 1:29:59
  Did I not bid you to kiss me? But once in be gone?
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  Ha ha? But I know you won't be satisfied now, you smith
• 1:30:05
  creature? How should I kissing her hand? Well, since you are so
• 1:30:13
  humble or so cool as to ravish my hand, only I'll take my leave
• 1:30:19
  of you like a great lady, and you a man of quality, I
• 1:30:25
  salute formerly pox of all this state offers to kiss her more closely. No,
• 1:30:31
  prithee, Tom, mind your business. We must follow that interest which
• 1:30:36
  will take, but endeavor at that which will be most for us, and
• 1:30:41
  we like most. Oh, here's my young mistress. Tom taps her neck
• 1:30:46
  behind and kisses his fingers. Go ye, licorice, fool, Exit Tom,
• 1:30:55
  And to Lucinda, who was that you were hurrying away? Oh?
• 1:31:00
  That I had no mind to bart with? Why did you turn him away?
• 1:31:02
  Then? For your ladyship's service? To carry your ladyship's letter to his
• 1:31:06
  master, I could hardly get the rogue away. Why has he so little
• 1:31:12
  love for his master? No, but he hath so much love for his
• 1:31:16
  mistress. But I thought I heard him kiss you. Why did you suffer
• 1:31:20
  that? Why? Madam, we vulgar take it to be a sign of
• 1:31:25
  love. We servants, we poor people that have nothing but our persons to
• 1:31:30
  bestow or treat for, are forced to deal and bargain by way of sample.
• 1:31:34
  And therefore, as we have no parchments or wax necessary in our agreements,
• 1:31:39
  we squeeze with our hands and seal with our lips to ratify vows and
• 1:31:45
  promises. But can't you trust one another without such earnest down? We don't
• 1:31:49
  think it safe any more than you, gentry, to come together without deeds
• 1:31:54
  executed. Thou art a pert Mary hussy, ha ha, I wish,
• 1:31:59
  madam, that your lover and you were as happy as Tom and your servant.
• 1:32:02
  Are you grow impertinent? I have done, madam, and I won't
• 1:32:08
  ask you what you intend to do with mister Myrtle, what your father will
• 1:32:11
  do with mister Bevell, nor what you all, especially my lady, mean
• 1:32:16
  by admitting mister Simberton as particularly here as if he were married to you already
• 1:32:23
  nay, you are married. Actually, as far as people of quality are,
• 1:32:28
  how is that you have different beds in the same house? Pshaw.
• 1:32:32
  I have a very great value for mister Bevell, but have absolutely put an
• 1:32:35
  end to his pretensions in the letter I gave you for him. But my
• 1:32:40
  father, in his heart still has a mind to him. Were it not
• 1:32:43
  for this woman they talk of, and I am apt to imagine he is
• 1:32:46
  married to her, or never designs to marry at all. Then, mister
• 1:32:50
  Myrtle, he had my parents leave to apply to me, and by that
• 1:32:55
  he has won me and my affections. Who is to have this body of
• 1:32:59
  mine without them? It seems as nothing to me. My mother says,
• 1:33:02
  tis indecent for me to let my thoughts stray about the person of my husband.
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  Nay, she says, a maid, rigidly virtuous, though she may
• 1:33:10
  have been where her lover was a thousand times, should not have made observations
• 1:33:15
  enough to know him from another man when she sees him in a third place.
• 1:33:17
  That is more than the severity of a nun. For not to see
• 1:33:21
  when one may is hardly possible, and not to see when one count is
• 1:33:27
  very easy. At this rate, Madam, there are a great many who
• 1:33:31
  you have not seen, who Mamma says, the first time you see your
• 1:33:34
  husband should be at the instant he has made. So when your father,
• 1:33:39
  with the help of the Minister, gives you to him, then you are
• 1:33:41
  to see him. Then you are to observe and take notice of him,
• 1:33:45
  because then you are to obey him. But does not, my lady,
• 1:33:48
  remember you are to love as well as obey. To love is a passion,
• 1:33:54
  It is a desire, and we must have no desires. Oh,
• 1:33:58
  I cannot endure the reflection with what insensibility on my part? With what more
• 1:34:02
  than patience have I been exposed and offered to some awkward booby or other in
• 1:34:06
  every county of Great Britain. Indeed, Madam, I wonder I never heard
• 1:34:12
  you speak of it before. With this indignation, every corner of the land
• 1:34:16
  has presented me with a wealthy coxcomb. As fast as one treaty has gone
• 1:34:20
  off, another has come on, till my name and person have been the
• 1:34:24
  tittle tattle of the whole town. What does this world come to? No
• 1:34:28
  shame left to be bartered, for like the beasts of the field, and
• 1:34:31
  that in such an instance as coming together to an entire familiarity and union of
• 1:34:35
  soul and body. Oh, and this without being so much as well wishers
• 1:34:40
  to each other, but for increase of fortune. But Madam, all these
• 1:34:45
  vexations will end very soon in one for all. Mister Simberton is your mother's
• 1:34:48
  kinsman, and three hundred years an older gentleman than any lover you ever had,
• 1:34:55
  for which reason, with that of his prodigious large estate, she is
• 1:34:59
  resolved done him, and has sent to consult the lawyers. Accordingly, nay,
• 1:35:03
  has whether you know it or no, been entreaty with Sir Geoffrey,
• 1:35:09
  who to join in the settlement, has accepted of a sum to do it,
• 1:35:13
  and is every moment expected in town for that purpose. How do you
• 1:35:16
  get all this intelligence? By an art I have? I thank my stars
• 1:35:21
  beyond all the weighting maids in Great Britain, the art of listening, Madam,
• 1:35:27
  for your lady's service, I shall soon know, as much as you
• 1:35:30
  do leave me, leave me. Phyllis begone here here, I'll turn you
• 1:35:33
  out. My mother says, I must not converse with my servants, though
• 1:35:38
  I must converse with no one else except Phyllis. How unhappy are we who
• 1:35:43
  were born to great fortunes. No one looks at us with indifference or acts
• 1:35:47
  towards us on the foot of plain dealing. Yet by all I have been
• 1:35:51
  heretofore offered to or treated, For I have been used with the most agreeable
• 1:35:56
  of all abuses, flattery. But now by this phlegmatic fool, I'm used
• 1:36:00
  as nothing or a mere thing. He forsooth, is too wise, too
• 1:36:05
  learned, to have any regard for desires. And I know not what the
• 1:36:10
  learned oath calls sentiments of love and passion. Here he comes with my mother.
• 1:36:15
  It's much if he looks at me, or if he does takes no
• 1:36:17
  more notice of me than of any other movable in the room. And missus
• 1:36:21
  sealand a mister simpleton, how do I admire this noble, this learned taste
• 1:36:29
  of yours, and the word you regard You have to our own ancient and
• 1:36:32
  honorable house. In consulting a means to keep the blood as pure and as
• 1:36:38
  regularly descended as may be. Why, really, ma'am, the young women
• 1:36:44
  of this age are treated with discourses of such a tendency, and their imaginations
• 1:36:49
  so bewildered in flesh and blood that a man of reason can't talk to be
• 1:36:55
  understood. They have no ideas of happiness. But what are more gross than
• 1:37:00
  the gratification of hunger and thirst? Aside with how much reflection, he is
• 1:37:09
  a coxcomb. And in truth, ma'am, I have considered it a most
• 1:37:15
  brutal custom that persons of the first character in the world should go, as
• 1:37:20
  ordinarily and with as little shame to bed as to dinner with one another.
• 1:37:27
  They proceed to the propagation of the species as openly as to the preservation of
• 1:37:32
  the individual lusender. Aside, she that willingly goes to bed to thee must
• 1:37:39
  have no shame. I'm sure, oh, cousin Symburton, Cousin Simburton,
• 1:37:45
  how abstracted, how refined is your sense of things? But indeed it is
• 1:37:50
  too true. There is nothing so ordinary as to say, in the best
• 1:37:56
  governed families, my master and lady have gone to One does not know,
• 1:38:01
  but it might have been said of oneself hiding her face with her fan lycurgius,
• 1:38:09
  ma'am instituted. Otherwise, among the Lacedaemians, the whole female world was
• 1:38:16
  pregnant, but none but the mothers themselves knew by whom their meetings were secret,
• 1:38:24
  and the amorous congress always by stealth, and no such professed doings between
• 1:38:30
  the sexes as are tolerated among us under the audacious word marriage. Oh,
• 1:38:38
  had I lived in those days and been a matron of Sparta, one might,
• 1:38:43
  with less indecency have had ten children according to that modest institution, than
• 1:38:48
  one under the confusion of our modern, bear faced manner. Listener aside,
• 1:38:56
  and yet, poor woman, she has gone through the whole ceremony, and
• 1:39:00
  here I stand a melancholy proof of it. We will talk then of business.
• 1:39:04
  That girl walking about the room there is to be your wife. She
• 1:39:10
  has, I confess, no ideas, no sentiments that speak her born of
• 1:39:15
  a thinking mother. I have observed her. Her lively look, cre are
• 1:39:21
  and disengaged countenance, speaker very very What if you please, ma'am, to
• 1:39:29
  set her a little that way, Lucinda, say nothing to him. You
• 1:39:34
  are not a match for him. When you are married. You may speak
• 1:39:40
  to such a husband when you're spoken to. But I am disposing of you
• 1:39:44
  above yourself every way, ma'am. You cannot but observe the inconveniences. I
• 1:39:51
  expose myself too, in hopes that your ladyship will be the consort of my
• 1:39:57
  better parts. As for the young woman, she is rather an impediment than
• 1:40:03
  a help to a man of letters and speculation. Mo'm, there is no
• 1:40:09
  reflection. No philosophy can at all times subdue the sensitive life. But the
• 1:40:15
  animal shall sometimes carry away the man. Hah I the vermilion of her lips,
• 1:40:26
  pray, don't talk of me? Thus, the pretty enough pants of
• 1:40:30
  her bosom, sir, madam, don't you hear him? Her forward chest,
• 1:40:36
  intolerable high health, the grave easy impudence of him, proud heart,
• 1:40:45
  stupid cops, Come, I say, madam. Her impatience while we are
• 1:40:49
  looking at her, throws out all attractions, her arms, her neck,
• 1:40:56
  What a spring in her step? Don't you on me over? Thus you
• 1:41:00
  strange, unaccountable. What an elasticity in her veins and arterer is I have
• 1:41:06
  no veins, no arteries, Oh child, hear him, he talks.
• 1:41:13
  Finally, he's a scholar. He knows what you have. The speaking invitation
• 1:41:19
  of her shape, the gathering of herself up, and the indignation you see
• 1:41:26
  in the pretty little thing. Now I am considering her on this occasion,
• 1:41:32
  but as one that is to be pregnant. Listen aside the familiar, learned,
• 1:41:40
  unseasonable puppy and pregnant. Undoubtedly she will be yearly. I fear I
• 1:41:46
  shan't for many years have discretion enough to give her one fallow season monster.
• 1:41:55
  There's no bearing it, the hideous sot. There's no enduring it to be
• 1:41:59
  thus surveyed like a steed at sale at sale. She's very illiterate, but
• 1:42:05
  she's very well limbed to turn her in. I see what she is,
• 1:42:12
  oough exit listender in a rage, go you creature. I am ashamed of
• 1:42:18
  you. No harm done, you know, ma'am. The better sort of
• 1:42:25
  people, as I observe to you, treat by their lawyers of weddings adjusting
• 1:42:31
  himself at the glass, and the woman in the bargain, like the mansion
• 1:42:38
  house in the sale of the estate, is thrown in, and what that
• 1:42:44
  is, whether good or bad, is not at all considered. I grant
• 1:42:47
  it, and therefore make no demand for her youth and beauty and every other
• 1:42:53
  accomplishment, as the common word think. Because she's not polite, ma'am,
• 1:42:58
  I know your exact understanding, abstracted as it is from vulgar prejudices, will
• 1:43:05
  not be offended when I declare to you I marry to have an heir to
• 1:43:11
  my estate, and not to beget a colony or a plantation. This young
• 1:43:17
  woman's beauty and constitution will demand provision for a tenth child at least, Missus
• 1:43:26
  Zealand. Aside with all that wit and learning, how considerate what an economist,
• 1:43:33
  Sir, I cannot make her any other than she is, or say
• 1:43:39
  she is much better than the other young women of this age, or fit
• 1:43:43
  for much besides being a mother. But I have given directions for the marriage
• 1:43:46
  settlements, and Sir Jeffrey Simburton's counsel is to meet ours here at this hour
• 1:43:54
  concerning dis joining in the deed, which, when executed, makes you capable
• 1:43:59
  of settling What is due to Lucinda's fortune herself. As I told you,
• 1:44:03
  I say nothing of no, no indeed, ma'am, it is not usual,
• 1:44:11
  and I must depend upon my own reflection and philosophy not to overstock my
• 1:44:16
  family. I cannot help her cousin symbaton, but she is for aught I
• 1:44:23
  see, as well as the daughter of anybody else. That is very true,
• 1:44:28
  ma'am. And to a servant who whispers, Missus Zealand. The lawyers
• 1:44:34
  are come, and now we are to hear what they have resolved as to
• 1:44:39
  the point whether it's necessary that Sir Geoffrey should join in the settlement, as
• 1:44:44
  being what they call in the remainder. But good cousin, you must have
• 1:44:48
  patience with them. These lawyers, i am told, are of a different
• 1:44:53
  kind. One is what they call a chamber council, the other a pleader.
• 1:44:58
  The conveyance is slow from an imperfection in his speech, and therefore shunned
• 1:45:03
  the bar, but extremely passionate and impatient of contradiction. The other is as
• 1:45:10
  warm as he, but has a tongue so voluble and the heads so conceited
• 1:45:15
  he will suffer nobody to speak but himself. You mean old sergeant Target and
• 1:45:20
  counselor Bramble. I have heard of them the same showing the gentleman exit servant
• 1:45:30
  re enter servant introducing Myrtle and Tom disguised as Bramble and Target. Gentlemen,
• 1:45:40
  this is the party concerned, mister Symbaton, and I hope you have considered
• 1:45:44
  of the matter. Yes, madam, we have agreed that it must be
• 1:45:48
  by indent dent, dent dent. Yes, Madame, mister Sergeant and myself
• 1:45:59
  have a as he is pleased to inform you that it must be an indenture
• 1:46:03
  tripartite and tripartite. Let it be for Sir Jeffrey must needs be a party.
• 1:46:10
  Old Sebton in the year sixteen nineteen says in that the ancient role in
• 1:46:15
  mister Sergeant's hands, as recour stair to being had, will more at large
• 1:46:19
  appear. Yes, and by the deeds in your hands it appears that,
• 1:46:25
  mister Sergeant, I beg of you to make no inferences upon what is in
• 1:46:29
  our custody, but speak to the titles in your own deeds. I shall
• 1:46:33
  not show that detail. My client is in town. You know best your
• 1:46:39
  own methods. The single question is whether he entailed is such that my cousin,
• 1:46:45
  Sir Jeffrey, is necessary in this affair. Yes, as to the
• 1:46:49
  lordship of Traetriplet, but not as to the mess wage of grim Gribber.
• 1:46:55
  I say that, yeah, that's grim Griver. Grim River is in us.
• 1:47:06
  That is to say, the remainder thereof, as well as that of
• 1:47:13
  Triplet. You go upon the deed of Sir Ralph made in the middle of
• 1:47:18
  the last century. Precedent to that which old Simberton made over the remainder and
• 1:47:24
  made it pass to the heirs in general, by which your client comes in
• 1:47:29
  at our question whether the remainder, even if true triplet, is in him.
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  But we are willing to waive that and give him a valuable consideration.
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  But we shall not purchase what is in us forever as grim Griver is at
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  the rate as we got against the contingent of mister Simberton having no son,
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  then we know Sir Jeffrey is the first of the collateral male line in this
• 1:47:51
  family. Yet their burgh is apprehend you very well, and your argument might
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  be a force, and we would be inclined to hear that in all its
• 1:48:05
  spots. But Sir, I see very plainly what you are going into.
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  I tell you it is as probable a contingent that Sir Jeffrey may die before
• 1:48:15
  mister Simberton as that he may outlive him. Sir, we are not tried
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  for that yet. But I must say, Sir, I allow you the
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  whole extent of her argument, but that will go no farther than as to
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  the claimants under old symbaton. I am of the opinion that according to the
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  instruction of Sir Ralph, he could not dock the entail and then create our
• 1:48:38
  new estate for the heirs. General, Sir, I have not patience to
• 1:48:42
  be told that when go very I will allow it you, mister sergeant.
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  But there must be the word heirs forever to make such an estate as you
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  pretend, I must be impartial, though you are our counsel for my side
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  of the question. Were it not that you are so good as to allow
• 1:49:05
  him what he has not said, I should think it very hard. You
• 1:49:11
  should answer him without hearing him. But gentlemen, I believe you have both
• 1:49:16
  considered this matter and are firm in your different opinions. Twere better Therefore you
• 1:49:25
  proceeded according to the particular sense of each of you, and gave your thoughts
• 1:49:30
  distinctly in writing. And do you see, sirs pray? Let me have
• 1:49:35
  a copy of what you say in English? Why what is it all we
• 1:49:41
  have been saying in English? Oh? But I forget myself. You're a
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  wet But however, to please you, Sir, you shall have it in
• 1:49:49
  as plain terms as the law will admit of. I would have it,
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  sir, without delay. That's the law will not admit of sitting in Westminster,
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  and I am this moment obliged to be at every one of them,
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  and twould be wrong if I should not be in the hall to attend one
• 1:50:06
  of them. At least the rest would take it ill. Else Therefore,
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  I must leave what I have said to mister Sergeant's consideration, and I will
• 1:50:15
  adjust his arguments on my part, and you shall hear from me again,
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  sir. Exit Bramble, agreed, Agreed. Mister Bramble is very quick.
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  He parted a little abruptly. He could not bear my argument. I pinched
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  him to the quick about that girl there, I saw that, for he
• 1:50:41
  dares not so much as hear you. I shall send to you, mister
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  Sergeant, as soon as Sir Jeffrey comes to town, and then I hope
• 1:50:48
  all may be adjusted. I shall be at my chambers at my usual hours.
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  Exit mo'm if you please. I'll now attend you to the tea table,
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  where I shall hear from your ladyship reason and good sense. After all
• 1:51:08
  this law and gibberish. This is a wonderful thing, sir, that men
• 1:51:14
  of professions do not study to talk the substance of what they have to say
• 1:51:17
  in the language of the rest of the world, should they'd find their account
• 1:51:23
  in it. They might, perhaps, ma'am, with people of your good
• 1:51:28
  sense, but with the generality twould never do. The vulgar would have no
• 1:51:33
  respect for truth and knowledge if they were exposed to naked view. Truth is
• 1:51:41
  too simple, of all art bereaved, since the world will, why let
• 1:51:45
  it be deceived? Excellent? End of Act three, Act the fourth sin
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  one Bevillgnior's lodgings with a letter in his hand, followed by tom upon my
• 1:52:04
  life, Sir, I know nothing of the matter. I never opened my
• 1:52:09
  lips to Master Myrtle about anything of the honors letter to Madame Lucinda. What's
• 1:52:13
  the fool in such a fright? For I don't suppose you did. What
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  I would know is whether mister Myrtle shows any suspicion or asked you any questions
• 1:52:23
  to lead you to say casually that you had carried any such letter for me
• 1:52:27
  this morning? Why, sir? If he did ask me any questions,
• 1:52:30
  how could I help it? I don't say you could. Oh, I'm
• 1:52:34
  not questioning you, but him. What did he say to you? Why,
• 1:52:39
  sir? When I came to his chambers to be dressed, for the
• 1:52:42
  lawyer's part. Your Honor was pleased to put me upon. He asked me
• 1:52:45
  if I had been at master ceilings this morning? So I told him,
• 1:52:48
  Sir, I often went thither, because Sir, if I had not said
• 1:52:54
  that, he might have thought there was something more in my going now than
• 1:52:58
  at another time. Very well, aside the fellow's caution, I find has
• 1:53:03
  given him this jealousy. Did he ask you no other questions? Yes,
• 1:53:10
  sir, Now I remember as he came away in the Hackney coach Master sidns
• 1:53:15
  Tom says he. As I came into your master this morning, he bade
• 1:53:18
  you go for an answer to a letter he had sent. Pray, did
• 1:53:21
  you bring him any? Says he? Aur says I, Sir, your
• 1:53:25
  Honor is pleased to choke with me. You have a mind to know whether
• 1:53:28
  I can keep a secret in her, and so by showing him you could,
• 1:53:31
  you told him you had one. Sir, what mean actions does jealousy
• 1:53:39
  make a command stoop to? How poorly has he used art with a servant
• 1:53:43
  to make him betray his master? Well? And when did he give you
• 1:53:46
  this letter for me? Say? He read it before he pulled off his
• 1:53:50
  lawyer's gown. At his own chambers very well. And what did he say
• 1:53:56
  when you brought him my answer to it? He looked a little out of
• 1:53:59
  humors and said it was very well. I knew he would be grave upont
• 1:54:03
  wait without hmm good. I don't like this. I'm afraid we are all
• 1:54:10
  in the wrong box. Here Exit Tom. I put on a serenity while
• 1:54:15
  my fellow was present, but I have never been more thoroughly disturbed this hot
• 1:54:20
  man to write me a challenge on supposed artificial dealing when I professed myself his
• 1:54:27
  friend. I can live contented without glory, but I cannot suffer shame.
• 1:54:31
  What's to be done? But first let me consider Lucinda's letter again, reads
• 1:54:39
  Sir, I hope it is consistent with the laws a woman ought to impose
• 1:54:44
  upon herself. To acknowledge that your manner of declining a treaty of marriage in
• 1:54:47
  our family, and desiring the refusal may come from me, has something more
• 1:54:53
  engaging in it than the courtship of him who I fear will fall to my
• 1:54:57
  lot, except your friend excerpts himself for our common safety and happiness. I
• 1:55:01
  have reasons for desiring. Mister Myrtle may not know of this letter till hereafter,
• 1:55:08
  and I am your most obliged, humble servant, Lucinda sealand well.
• 1:55:14
  But the PostScript reads, I won't, upon second thoughts, hide anything from
• 1:55:19
  you. But my reason for concealing this is that mister Myrtle has a jealousy
• 1:55:25
  in his temper, which gives me some terrors. But my esteem for him
• 1:55:29
  inclines me to hope that only an ill effect which sometimes accompanies a tender love,
• 1:55:33
  and what may be cured by a careful and unblameable conduct. Thus has
• 1:55:39
  this lady made me her friend and confidant, and put herself in a kind
• 1:55:44
  under my protection. I cannot tell him immediately the purport of her letter,
• 1:55:48
  except I would cure him of the violent and untractable passion of jealousy, and
• 1:55:54
  so serve him and her by disobeying her in the article of secrecy, more
• 1:56:00
  than I should by complying with her directions. But then this dueling, which
• 1:56:04
  custom is imposed upon every man who would live with reputation and honor in the
• 1:56:09
  world, how must I preserve myself from imputations? There? He'll forsooth call
• 1:56:15
  it or think it fear If I explain without fighting but his letter, I'll
• 1:56:21
  read it again reads, Sir, you have used me basely in corresponding and
• 1:56:29
  carrying on a treaty where you told me you were indifferent. I have changed
• 1:56:32
  my sword since I saw you, which advertisement I thought proper to send you
• 1:56:38
  against the next meeting between you and the injured Charles Myrtle. Enter Tom,
• 1:56:45
  Master Myrtle, sair, would your honor please to see why you stupid creature.
• 1:56:50
  Let mister Myrtle wait at my lodgings. Show him up. Exit Tom
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  Well. I am resolved upon my carriage to him. He is in love
• 1:57:00
  and in every circumstance of life a little distrustful, which I must allow for.
• 1:57:05
  But here he is, And to Tom, introducing Myrtle, Sir,
• 1:57:12
  I am extremely obliged to you for this honor to Tom, But sir,
• 1:57:17
  you, with your very discerning face, leave the room. Exit Tom Well.
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  Mister Myrtle, your commands with me, the time, the place,
• 1:57:28
  our long acquaintance, and many other circumstances which affect me on this occasion,
• 1:57:31
  oblige me without further ceremony or conference. To desire you would not, only
• 1:57:36
  as you already have, acknowledge the receipt of my leather, but also comply
• 1:57:41
  with the request in it. I must have farther notice taken of my message
• 1:57:45
  than these half lines I have yours. I shall be at home, sir.
• 1:57:49
  I own I have received a letter from you in a very unusual style,
• 1:57:55
  but as I design, everything in this matter shall be your own action,
• 1:57:59
  your own seeking. I shall understand nothing but what you are pleased to
• 1:58:02
  confirm face to face. And I have already forgot the contents of your epistle.
• 1:58:08
  This cool manner is very agreeable to the abuse you have already made of
• 1:58:12
  my simplicity and frankness. And I see your moderation tends to your advantage and
• 1:58:16
  not mine. To your own safety, not consideration of your friend my own
• 1:58:21
  safety, mister Myrtle, your own safety, mister Bevell, Look you,
• 1:58:28
  mister Myrtle. There's no disguising that I understand what you would be at But
• 1:58:32
  sir, you know I have often dared to disapprove of the decisions A tyrant
• 1:58:38
  custom has introduced to the breach of all laws, both divine and human,
• 1:58:43
  mister Bevil, mister Bevel, it would be a good first principle in those
• 1:58:48
  who have so tender a conscience that way to have as much abhorrence of doing
• 1:58:54
  injuries as as what as fear of answering for him, as fear of our
• 1:59:00
  answering for him. But that apprehension is just or blameable according to the object
• 1:59:05
  of that fear. I have often told you in confidence of heart, I
• 1:59:11
  abhort the daring to offend the author of life, and rushing into his presence,
• 1:59:15
  I say, by the very same act, to commit the crime against
• 1:59:18
  him, and immediately to urge on to his tribunal. Mister Bevil, I
• 1:59:25
  must tell you this coolness, this gravity, this show of conscience, shall
• 1:59:30
  never cheat me of my mistress. You have indeed the best excuse for life,
• 1:59:35
  the hopes of possessing Lucinda. But consider, Sir, I have as
• 1:59:42
  much a reason to be weary of it if I am to lose her,
• 1:59:45
  and my first attempt to recover her shall be to let her see the dauntless
• 1:59:48
  man who is to be her guardian and protector. Sir, show me but
• 1:59:54
  the least glimpse of argument that I am authorized by my own hand to vindicate
• 1:59:59
  any lordless insult of this nature, and I will show thee to chastise thee
• 2:00:03
  hardly deserves the name of courage, slight, inconsiderate man, There is,
• 2:00:10
  mister myrtle, no such terror in quick anger, And you shall you know
• 2:00:15
  not why be cool as you have? You know not why being warm is
• 2:00:19
  the woman one loves so little an occasion for anger. You perhaps, who
• 2:00:25
  know not what it is to love? Who have your ready, your commodious,
• 2:00:30
  your foreign trinket for your loose hours, and from your fortune, your
• 2:00:33
  specious outward carriage and utter lucky circumstances as easy a way to the possession of
• 2:00:39
  a woman of honor. You know nothing of what it is to be alarmed,
• 2:00:44
  to be distracted with anxiety and terror of losing more than life. Your
• 2:00:47
  marriage, happy man goes on like common business. And in the interim you
• 2:00:53
  have your rambling captive, your Indian princess, for your soft moments of dalliance.
• 2:00:58
  You're convenient, You're ready, Indiana. You have touched me beyond the
• 2:01:02
  patience of a man. And I am excusable in the guard of innocence,
• 2:01:08
  or from the infirmity of human nature, which campaign no more. To accept
• 2:01:12
  your invitation and observe your letter, sir, I'll attend you enter. Tom
• 2:01:19
  did you call sir, I thought you did. I heard you speak aloud.
• 2:01:24
  Yes, go call a coach, sir, master myrtle, friends,
• 2:01:31
  gentlemen, what do you mean I am but a servant? Or call a
• 2:01:36
  coach. Exit tom a long pause, walking sullenly by each other aside?
• 2:01:45
  Shall I so provoke to the uttermost recover myself at the entrance of a third
• 2:01:51
  person, and that my servant too, and not have respect enough to all
• 2:01:57
  I have ever been receiving from infancy, the obligation to the best of fathers,
• 2:02:02
  to an unhappy virgin too, whose life depends on mine. Shutting the
• 2:02:08
  door to myrtle, I have, thank Heaven had time to recollect myself,
• 2:02:15
  and shall not, for fear of what such a rash man as you think
• 2:02:18
  of me, keep longer unexplained the false appearances under which your infirmity of temper
• 2:02:25
  makes you suffer, when perhaps too much regard to a false point of honor
• 2:02:30
  makes me prolong the suffering. I am sure mister Bevell cannot dote, but
• 2:02:33
  I had rather have satisfaction from his innocence than his sword. Why then,
• 2:02:40
  would you ask it first? That way? Consider you kept your temper yourself
• 2:02:45
  no longer till I spoke to the disadvantage of her you loved, true,
• 2:02:49
  But let me tell you I have saved you from the most exquisite distress,
• 2:02:55
  even though you had succeeded in the dispute. I know you so well that
• 2:03:00
  I am sure to have found this letter about a man who had killed would
• 2:03:03
  have been worse than death to yourself. Read it aside when he is thoroughly
• 2:03:10
  mortified and shame has got the better of jealousy, when he has seen himself
• 2:03:15
  truly, he will deserve to be assisted towards obtaining lusciner myrtle. Aside,
• 2:03:23
  with what a superiority he has turned the injury on me as the aggressor.
• 2:03:28
  I begin to fear I have been too far transported a treaty in our family.
• 2:03:32
  Is not that saying too much? I shall relapse. But I find
• 2:03:38
  on the PostScript something like jealousy? With what face can I see my benefactor,
• 2:03:43
  my advocate, whom I have treated like a betrayer, Oh Bethel,
• 2:03:48
  With what word shall I there needs none to convinces much more than to conquer?
• 2:03:56
  But can you you have ah paid the inquiet you gave me in the
• 2:04:00
  change I see in you toward me alas what machines are we thy face is
• 2:04:06
  altered to that of another man, to that, my companion, my friend,
• 2:04:13
  that I could be such a precipitate wretch. Pray no more. Let
• 2:04:17
  me reflect on how many friends have died by the hands of friends for want
• 2:04:21
  of temper, and you must give me leave to say again and again how
• 2:04:27
  much I am beholden to that superior spirit. You have subdued me with what
• 2:04:32
  had become of one of us, or perhaps both, had you been as
• 2:04:35
  weak as I was and as incapable of reason. I congratulate to us both
• 2:04:42
  the escape from ourselves, and hope the memory of it will make us dearer
• 2:04:45
  friends than ever. Dear Bevil, your friendly conduct has convinced me that there
• 2:04:50
  is nothing manly but what is conducted by reason and agreeable to the practice of
• 2:04:57
  virtue and justice. And yet how many have been sacrificed to that idol the
• 2:05:01
  unreasonable opinion of men. Nay, they are so ridiculous in it that they
• 2:05:06
  often use their swords against each other with disassembled anger and real fear, betrayed
• 2:05:14
  by honor and compelled by shame, the hazard being to preserve a name nor
• 2:05:18
  dare inquire into the dread mistake till plunged in sad eternity. They awake excellent
• 2:05:27
  scene too, Saint James's Park. And to us, Sir John Bethel,
• 2:05:31
  and to mister sealand give me leave. However, mister sealand as we are
• 2:05:36
  upon a treaty for uniting our families, to mention only the business of an
• 2:05:41
  ancient house, genealogy and descent are to be of some consideration in an affair
• 2:05:45
  of this sort. Genealogy and descent. So there has been in our family
• 2:05:50
  a very large one. There was Galfred, the father of Edward, the
• 2:05:56
  father of Ptolemy, the father of Cressus, the father Richard, father of
• 2:06:00
  Henry, the marquis, father of Duke John. What do you rave,
• 2:06:06
  mister zealand all these great names in your family? These, yes, sir,
• 2:06:13
  I've heard my father name of old and more, ay, sir.
• 2:06:17
  And did he say they were all in your family? Yes, sir,
• 2:06:21
  he kept them all. He was the greatest cocker in England, he said.
• 2:06:27
  Duke John won him many battles and never lost one. Oh, sir,
• 2:06:32
  your servant, you are laughing at my laying any stress upon descent but
• 2:06:36
  I must tell you, Sir, I never knew any one but he that
• 2:06:41
  wanted that advantage turned it into ridicule, And I never knew any one who
• 2:06:45
  had better advantages put that into his account. But, Sir John, value
• 2:06:51
  yourself as you please upon your ancient house, and betalk freely of everything you
• 2:06:57
  were pleased to put into your bill of rates on this occasion. Yet,
• 2:07:00
  Sir, I've made no objections to your son's family. Tis his models that
• 2:07:06
  I doubt, Sir, I can't help saying that what might injure a citizen's
• 2:07:12
  credit may be no stain to a gentleman's honor, Sir John, The honor
• 2:07:17
  of a gentleman is liable to be tainted by a small a matter as the
• 2:07:21
  credit of a trader. We are talking of a marriage, And in such
• 2:07:26
  a case, the father of a young woman will not think it an addition
• 2:07:30
  to the honor or credit of her lover that he is a keeper, mister
• 2:07:34
  Sealand don't take upon you to spoil my son's marriage with any woman else,
• 2:07:40
  Sir John. Let him apply to any woman else that have as many mistresses
• 2:07:45
  as he pleases. My son, Sir, is a discreet and sober gentleman,
• 2:07:51
  Sah, I never saw a man that wenched soberly and discreetly, that
• 2:07:56
  ever left it off. The decency observed in the press dis hides even from
• 2:08:01
  the sinner the iniquity of it. They pursue it, not that their appetites
• 2:08:07
  hurry them away. But I warrant you, because tis their opinion, they
• 2:08:11
  may do it were what you suspect a truth? Do you design to keep
• 2:08:16
  your daughter of virgin till you find a man unblemished that way? Sah.
• 2:08:22
  As much as it as you take me far, I know the town and
• 2:08:26
  the world, and give me leave to say that we merchants are a species
• 2:08:31
  of gentry that have grown into the world this last century, and are as
• 2:08:35
  honorable and almost as useful as you landed folks that have always thought yourself so
• 2:08:41
  much above us, for your trading forsooth is extended no farther than a load
• 2:08:48
  of hay or a fat ox. You are pleasant people, indeed, because
• 2:08:54
  you are generally bred up to be lazy. Therefore I warrant you industry is
• 2:09:00
  dishonorable. Be not offended, sir, Let us go back to our point.
• 2:09:05
  Oh, not at all offended. But I don't love to leave any
• 2:09:11
  part of the account unclosed. Look you, sir John, Comparisons are odious,
• 2:09:16
  and more particularly so on occasions of this kind, when we are projecting
• 2:09:22
  races that are to be made out of both sides of the comparisons. But
• 2:09:26
  my son, Sir, is, in the eye of the world, a
• 2:09:31
  gentleman of merit, I own to you, I think him so. But
• 2:09:37
  Sir John, I am a man exercised and experienced in chances and disasters.
• 2:09:43
  I lost in my earlier years a very fine wife, and with her a
• 2:09:48
  poor little infant. This makes me, perhaps overcautious to preserve the second bounty
• 2:09:54
  of providence to me and be as careful as I can of this child.
• 2:10:00
  Your pardon me, My poor girl, sir, is as valuable to me
• 2:10:05
  as your boasted son to you. Why that's one very good reason, mister
• 2:10:11
  Sealand why I wish my son had her. There is nothing but this strange
• 2:10:16
  lady, here, this incognita that can be objected to him. Here and
• 2:10:22
  there a man falls in love with an artful creature and gives up all the
• 2:10:26
  motives of life to that one passion. A man of my Son's understanding cannot
• 2:10:33
  be supposed to be one of them. Very wise men have been so enslaved.
• 2:10:37
  And when a man marries with one of them upon his hands, whether
• 2:10:43
  moved from the demand of the world or slighter reasons, such a husband soils
• 2:10:48
  with his wife for a month perhaps, and then good beway, madam,
• 2:10:54
  that show's over. Ah. John Dryden points out such a husband to a
• 2:10:58
  hair when he says, and while abroad, Sir, prodigal the dolt is
• 2:11:03
  poor spouse at home as ragged as a cult is now in plain term,
• 2:11:09
  Sir, I shall not care to have my poor girl turned agrazing, and
• 2:11:15
  that must be the case when but pray consider sir, my son. Look
• 2:11:20
  you, sir, I'll make the matter short. This unknown lady, as
• 2:11:24
  I told you, is all the objection I have to him. But one
• 2:11:28
  way or other he is or has been, certainly engaged to her. I
• 2:11:35
  am therefore resolved this very afternoon to visit her. Now from her behavior or
• 2:11:43
  appearance, I shall soon be let into what I may fear or hope for,
• 2:11:50
  Sir, I am very confident there can be nothing inquired into relating to
• 2:11:54
  my son that will, not, upon being understood, turn to his advantage.
• 2:12:00
  I hope that sincerely as you believe it, Sir John Bevell, when
• 2:12:05
  I am satisfied in this great point, if your son's conduct answers the character
• 2:12:09
  you give him, I shall wish your alliance more than that of any gentleman
• 2:12:15
  in Great Britain. And so your servant exit. He is gone in a
• 2:12:22
  way but barely civil, but his great wealth and the merit of his only
• 2:12:26
  child, the heirest of it, are not to be lost for a little
• 2:12:30
  peevishness. And to Humphrey, ah, Humphrey, you are calme in a
• 2:12:35
  seasonable minute. I want to talk to THEE, and to tell THEE that
• 2:12:39
  my head and heart are on the rack about my son. Sir, you
• 2:12:43
  may trust his discretion. I am sure you may. Why I do believe
• 2:12:48
  I may, And yet I am in a thousand fears when I lay this
• 2:12:52
  vast wealth before me, when I consider his prepossessions either generous to a folly
• 2:12:56
  in an honorable love, or a past redemption in a vicious one, and
• 2:13:01
  from the one or the other, his insensibility to the fairest prospects towards doubling
• 2:13:07
  our estate. A father who knows how useful wealth is and how necessary even
• 2:13:13
  to those who despise it. I say, a father, Humphrey, A
• 2:13:16
  father cannot bear it. Be not transported, Sir, you will grow incapable
• 2:13:22
  of taking any resolution in your perplexity. Yet, as angry as I am
• 2:13:28
  with him, I would not have him surprised in anything. This mercantile rough
• 2:13:33
  man may go grossly into the examination of this matter and talk to the gentlewoman
• 2:13:39
  so as too. No, I hope not in an abrupt manner. No,
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  I hope not. Why dost thou know anything of her or of him,
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  or of anything of it or all of it? Oh, my dear
• 2:13:52
  master, I know so much that I told him this very day you had
• 2:13:58
  reason to be secretly out of humor about her? Did you go so far?
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  Well? What said he to that his words were looking upon me steadfastly?
• 2:14:07
  Humphrey says he that woman is a woman of honor. Ah, do
• 2:14:13
  you think he is married to her or designs to marry her? I can
• 2:14:18
  say nothing to the latter, But he says he can marry no one without
• 2:14:22
  your consent while you are living. If he said so much, I know
• 2:14:28
  he scorns to break his word with me. I am sure of that.
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  You are sure of that, well, that's some comfort. Then I have
• 2:14:37
  nothing to do but to see the bottom of this matter during this present ruffle.
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  Ah Humphrey, you are not ill, I hope, sir. Yes,
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  a man is very ill. That's in a very ill humor. To
• 2:14:52
  be a father is to be in care for one whom you oftener disoblige than
• 2:14:56
  please by that very care. Oh, that sons could know the duty to
• 2:15:01
  a father before they themselves are fathers. But perhaps you'll say now that I
• 2:15:05
  am one of the happiest fathers in the world. But I assure you that
• 2:15:11
  how the very happiest is not a condition to be envied. Sir. Your
• 2:15:16
  pain arises not from the thing itself, but your particular sense of it.
• 2:15:22
  You are over fond, Nay, give me leave to say you are unjustly
• 2:15:26
  apprehensive from your fondness. My master Bevill never disobliged you, and he will.
• 2:15:33
  I know he will do everything you ought to expect. He won't take
• 2:15:39
  all this money with the girl for aught. I know he will forsooth have
• 2:15:43
  so much moderation as to think he ought not to force his liking for any
• 2:15:46
  consideration. He is to marry her, not you. He is to live
• 2:15:52
  with her. Not to you, sir, I know not what to think,
• 2:15:58
  but I know nothing can be more miserable than to be in this doubt.
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  Follow me. I must come to some resolution. Excellent scene three Bevil
• 2:16:09
  Junior's lodgings. Enter Tom and Phyllis well, Madam. If you must speak
• 2:16:16
  with Master Meddle, you shall. He is now with my master in the
• 2:16:18
  library. But you must leave me alone with him, for he can't make
• 2:16:22
  me a present, nor I so handsomely take anything from him before you.
• 2:16:28
  It would not be decent. It will be very decent, indeed, for
• 2:16:31
  me to retire and leave my mistress with another man. He is a gentleman
• 2:16:35
  and will treat one properly. I believe so. But however I won't be
• 2:16:41
  far off, and therefore will venture to trust you. I'll call him to
• 2:16:45
  you. Exit Tom. What a deal of parther and Sputter hears between my
• 2:16:50
  mistress and mister Myrtle from mere punctilio. I could any hour of the day
• 2:16:56
  get her to her lover, and I would do it. But she,
• 2:17:01
  forsooth will allow no plot to get him. But if he can come to
• 2:17:05
  her, I know she would be glad of it. I must therefore do
• 2:17:11
  her unacceptable violence and surprise her into his arms. I am sure I go
• 2:17:18
  by the best rule imaginable. If she were my maid, I should think
• 2:17:22
  her the best servant in the world for doing so by me. Enter Myrtle
• 2:17:26
  and Tom, Oh, sir, you and mister Bevel are fine gentleman to
• 2:17:31
  let a lady remain under such difficulties as my poor mistress, and no attempt
• 2:17:37
  to set her at liberty or release her from the danger of being instantly married
• 2:17:43
  to Simberton. Tom has been telling. But what is to be done?
• 2:17:48
  What is to be done when a man can't come at his mistress? Why
• 2:17:54
  can't you fire our house or the next house to us to make us run
• 2:17:58
  out? And you take us? How missus Phillips, I let me see
• 2:18:03
  that rogue. Deny to fire a house, make a riot, or any
• 2:18:09
  other little thing when there were no other way to come at me. I
• 2:18:13
  am obliged here, madam. Why don't we hear every day of people hanging
• 2:18:18
  themselves for love? And won't they venture the hazard of being hanged for love?
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  Ah? Were I a man, what manly thing will you have me
• 2:18:28
  undertake? According to your Ladyship's notion of a man. Only be at once
• 2:18:33
  what one time or other you may be and wish to be, or must
• 2:18:39
  be. Dear girl, talk plainly to me and consider I, in my
• 2:18:45
  condition can't be in very good humor. You say to be at once what
• 2:18:48
  I must be? I ay, I mean no more than to be an
• 2:18:54
  old man. I saw you do it very well at the masquerade. In
• 2:18:58
  a word, Old Sir Jeoffrey Simbaton is every hour expected in town to join
• 2:19:05
  in the deeds and settlements for marrying mister Simberton. He is half blind,
• 2:19:09
  half lame, half death, half dumb, though has to his passions and
• 2:19:15
  desires. He is as warm and ridiculous as when in the heat of youth.
• 2:19:20
  Come to the business and don't keep the gentleman in suspense for the pleasure
• 2:19:22
  being courted as you serve me. I saw you at the masquerade act such
• 2:19:26
  a one to perfection. Go and put on that very habit and come to
• 2:19:31
  our house. As Sir Jeoffrey. There is not one there but myself knows
• 2:19:35
  his person. I was born in the parish where he is lord of the
• 2:19:39
  manor. I have seen him often and often at church in the country.
• 2:19:45
  Do not hesitate, but come hither. They will think you bring certain security
• 2:19:50
  against mister Myrtle. And you bring mister Myrtle leave the rest to me.
• 2:19:56
  I leave this with you and expect they don't. I told you know you
• 2:20:01
  they think you out of town. Would you had as good be forever?
• 2:20:05
  If you lose this opportunity, I must be gone. I know I am
• 2:20:09
  wanted at home. My dear Phyllis m catches and kisses her and gives her
• 2:20:16
  money. Ah, Fie, my kisses are not my own. You have
• 2:20:22
  committed violence. But I'll carry him to the right owner. Tom kisses her
• 2:20:28
  to Tom, come see me downstairs and leave the lover to think of his
• 2:20:33
  last game for the prize. Excellent Tom and Phyllis. I think I will
• 2:20:39
  instantly attempt this wild expedient. The extravagance of it will make me less suspected,
• 2:20:46
  and it will give me opportunity to assert my own right to Liscinda,
• 2:20:50
  without whom I cannot live. But I am so mortified at this conduct of
• 2:20:54
  mine towards poor Bebel. He must think meanly of me. I know not
• 2:20:58
  how to reassume myself and be in the spirit enough for such an adventure as
• 2:21:03
  this, yet I must attempt it, if it be only to be near
• 2:21:07
  Lucinda under her present perplexities ensure the next delight to transport with the fair is
• 2:21:13
  to relieve her in her house of care. Exit end of Act four,
• 2:21:20
  Act the fifth seen one Celand's house and to fillis with lights before myrtle disguised
• 2:21:30
  like old Sir Jeffrey, supported by Missus Cealand, Lucinda and Symbaton. Now
• 2:21:37
  I have seen you thus first, Sir Jeffrey, will you excuse me a
• 2:21:41
  moment while I give my necessary orders for your accommodation. Exit Missus Zealand.
• 2:21:48
  I have not seen you, Cousin Simberton, since you were ten years old,
• 2:21:52
  and as it is incumbent on you to keep up our name and family,
• 2:21:56
  I shall, upon very reasonable terms, join with you in a settlement
• 2:22:00
  to that purpose. Though I must tell you, Cousin, this is the
• 2:22:03
  first merchant that has married into our house. Listener aside de Sonon, am
• 2:22:09
  I a merchant because my father is what is he? Directly a trader?
• 2:22:13
  At this time? There's no hiding the disgrace, Sir. He trades to
• 2:22:20
  all parts of the world. We never had one in our family. Before
• 2:22:24
  who descended from persons that did anything, Sir, Since it is a girl
• 2:22:31
  that they have, I am, for the honor of my family willing to
• 2:22:37
  take it in again and to sink her into our name, and no harm
• 2:22:43
  done, disprudently and generously resolved. Is this the young thing? Yes,
• 2:22:50
  sir, Phyllis to Lsinda, good Madam, don't be out of humor,
• 2:22:56
  but let them run there at most of their extravagance. Hear them out.
• 2:23:01
  Can't I see her nearer? My eyes are but weak, Phyllis to Listender.
• 2:23:07
  Besides, I am sure the uncle has something worth your notice. I'll
• 2:23:13
  take care to get off the young one and leave you to observe what may
• 2:23:16
  be wrought out of the old one. For your good exit, Mom,
• 2:23:22
  this old gentleman, your great uncle, desires to be introduced to you and
• 2:23:30
  to see you nearer. Approach sir by your leave. A young lady puts
• 2:23:37
  on spectacles. Cousin Simperton, she has exactly that sort of neck and bottom
• 2:23:43
  for which my sister Gertrude was so admired in the year sixty one, before
• 2:23:48
  the French dresses first discovered anything in women below the gin listener aside, what
• 2:23:54
  a very odd situation I am in, though I cannot but be diverted at
• 2:23:58
  the extravas of their humors equally unsuitable to their age. Chin quotha, I
• 2:24:03
  don't believe my passionate lover there knows whether I have one or not. Ha
• 2:24:07
  ha, Madam, I would not willingly offend, but I have a better
• 2:24:11
  glass pulls out a large one and to Phyllis, Phyllis, to Symbleton,
• 2:24:20
  sir, My lady desires to show you the apartment that she intends for,
• 2:24:24
  Sir Jeffrey. Well, Sir, by that time you will have sufficiently gazed
• 2:24:31
  and suned yourself in the beauties of my spauce. There. I will wait
• 2:24:37
  on you again. Exit Simbleton and Phyllis. Were it not, Madame,
• 2:24:45
  that I might be troublesome. There is something of importance though we are alone,
• 2:24:50
  which I would say more safe from being heard. Listenda aside, there
• 2:24:56
  is something in this old fellow, methinks that raises my curiosity to be free.
• 2:25:01
  Madame, I as heartily condemn this kinsman of mine as you do,
• 2:25:05
  and I am sorry to see so much beauty and merit devoted by your parents
• 2:25:09
  to so insensible a possessor, surprising, I hope, then, sir,
• 2:25:15
  you will not contribute to the wrong. You are so generous as to pity
• 2:25:18
  whatever may be the interest of your family. This hand of mine shall never
• 2:25:22
  be employed to sign anything against your good and happiness. I am sorry,
• 2:25:26
  sir, it is not in my power to make you proper acknowledgments. But
• 2:25:31
  there is a gentleman in the world whose gratitude will I am sure be worthy
• 2:25:35
  of the favor. All the thanks I desire, Madame, are in your
• 2:25:39
  power to give, name them and command them. Only, Madame, that
• 2:25:43
  the first time you are alone with your lover, you will, with open
• 2:25:46
  arms receive him as willingly as his heart could wish it. Thus, then
• 2:25:52
  he claims your promise. Oh listen, Oh a cheat, A cheat,
• 2:25:58
  a cheat. Hush tis I tis I your lover, myrtle himself, Madame,
• 2:26:05
  Oh bless me, what a rashness and folly to surprise me. So
• 2:26:09
  but hush, my mother, enter missus, sealand simpleton and phyllis. How
• 2:26:16
  now what's the matter, oh madam? As soon as you left the room,
• 2:26:20
  my uncle fell into a sudden fit, and and so I cried out
• 2:26:24
  for help to support him and conduct him to his chamber. That was kindly
• 2:26:28
  done. Alas, sir, how do you find yourself? Never was taken
• 2:26:35
  in so odd away in my life? Pray lead me, oh I was
• 2:26:39
  talking here, Pray carry on to my cousin Symbaton's young lady, missus sealand
• 2:26:45
  aside my cousin Symbaton's young lady. How zealous he is even in his extremity
• 2:26:52
  for the match, A right simpleton? Simpleton and the sinder lead him as
• 2:27:00
  in pain pork's uncle? Will you pull my ear off? Pray? Uncle,
• 2:27:07
  you will squeeze me to death, no matter, no matter he knows
• 2:27:11
  not what he does. Come, sir, shall I help you out?
• 2:27:15
  By no means? I'll trouble nobody but my young cousins Here they lead him
• 2:27:20
  off, But pray, Madam, does your ladyship intend that mister Simberton shall
• 2:27:26
  really marry my young mistress at last? I don't think he likes, sir,
• 2:27:31
  that's not material. Men of his speculation are above desires. But be
• 2:27:35
  as it may. Now I have given old Sir Jeffrey the trouble of coming
• 2:27:41
  up to sign and seal. With what countenance can I be off? As
• 2:27:45
  well as with twenty others. Madam, it is the glory and honor of
• 2:27:50
  a great fortune to live in continual treaties and still to break off. It
• 2:27:56
  looks great, Madam, true Phillies, yet to return our blood again into
• 2:28:01
  the symbatons is an honor not to be rejected. But were you not saying
• 2:28:07
  that Sir John Bevill's creature Humphrey has been with mister Sealand, Yes, Madam,
• 2:28:13
  I overheard them agree that mister Sealand should go himself and visit this unknown
• 2:28:18
  lady that mister Bevill is so great with. And if he found nothing there
• 2:28:22
  to fight him, then mister Bedell should still marry my young mistress. How
• 2:28:28
  nay, then he shall find she is my daughter as well as his.
• 2:28:33
  I'll follow him this instant, and take the whole family along with me.
• 2:28:37
  The disputed power of disposing of my own daughter shall be at an end this
• 2:28:43
  very night. I'll live no longer in anxiety for a little hussy that hurts
• 2:28:48
  my appearance wherever I carry her, and for whose sake I seem to be
• 2:28:52
  at all regarded, And that in the best of my days. Indeed,
• 2:28:58
  Madam, if you were married, your ladyship might very well be taken for
• 2:29:03
  mister Sealand's daughter. Nay, when the chit has not been with me.
• 2:29:07
  I have heard the men say as much. I'll no longer cut off the
• 2:29:13
  greatest pleasure of a woman's life. The shining in assemblies by her forward anticipation
• 2:29:18
  of the respect that's due to her superior. She shall down to Symburton Hall,
• 2:29:24
  she shall, she shall, I hope, madam, I shall stay
• 2:29:31
  with your ladyship. Thou shalt Phyllis, and I'll place thee then more about
• 2:29:37
  me, but all the chairs immediately. I'll be gone this minute. Excellent
• 2:29:45
  seem to Charing Cross. Enter mister Sealand and Humphrey. I am very glad,
• 2:29:52
  mister Humphrey, that you agree with me that it is very common good
• 2:29:56
  I should look thoroughly into this matter. I am indeed of that opinion,
• 2:30:01
  for there is no artifice, nothing concealed in our family which ought in justice
• 2:30:07
  to be known. I need not desire you, sir, to treat the
• 2:30:11
  lady with care and respect. Master Humphrey, I shall not be rude,
• 2:30:16
  though I design to be a little abrupt, and coming to the matter at
• 2:30:20
  once to see how she will bear upon a surprise. That's the door,
• 2:30:26
  sir, I wish you success. While Humphrey speaks sealand consults his table book,
• 2:30:35
  I am less concerned what happens there, because I hear mister Myrtle is
• 2:30:39
  well lodged as old Sir Jeoffrey. So I'm willing to let this gentleman employ
• 2:30:43
  himself here to give them time at home, for I'm sure tis necessary for
• 2:30:48
  the quite of our family. Lucinda were disposed of out of it, since
• 2:30:54
  mister Bevill's inclination is so much otherwise engaged exit, I think this is the
• 2:31:01
  door knocks, Oh, carry this matter with an air of authority to inquire,
• 2:31:07
  though I make an errand to begin discourse knocks again and enter a footboy.
• 2:31:13
  So, young man, is your lady within a lax heir? I
• 2:31:18
  am but a country boy. I don't know whether she is or noah,
• 2:31:22
  But you stay a bit. I'll go in and ask the gentlewoman that's with
• 2:31:26
  her, why, Sarah, Though you are a country boy, you can
• 2:31:31
  see, can't you? You know whether she is at home when you see
• 2:31:35
  her, don't you? Nay nay, I'm not such a country land either,
• 2:31:39
  master to think she's at home? Because I see her. I have
• 2:31:43
  been in town but a month, and I lost one place already for believing
• 2:31:48
  my own eyes. Why, Sarah, have you learned to lie already?
• 2:31:52
  Ah? Master, things that allies in the country are not lies. In
• 2:31:56
  London, I begin to know my business little better than so. But you
• 2:32:03
  please to walk in. A call gentleman to you that can tell you for
• 2:32:07
  certain she can make bo to ask my lady herself. Oh, then she
• 2:32:11
  is within, I find, though you dare not say so. Nay,
• 2:32:16
  nay, that's neither here nor dare. What's matter whether she is within or
• 2:32:22
  no? If she has not a mind to see anybody. I can't tell,
• 2:32:26
  Siah whether you are art or simple. But however, get me a
• 2:32:30
  direct answer, And here's a shilling for you. Will you please walk in?
• 2:32:35
  Now see what I can do for you. I see you will be
• 2:32:39
  fit for your business in time, child, But I expect to meet with
• 2:32:43
  nothing but extraordinaries in such a house. Such a house, sir, you
• 2:32:50
  haven't seen it yet? Pray walk in, sir, I'll wait upon you.
• 2:32:54
  Excellent Scene three Indiana's house, And to Isabella, what anxiety do I
• 2:33:05
  feel for this poor creature? What will be the end of her, such
• 2:33:09
  a languishing, unreserved passion for a man that at last must certainly leave or
• 2:33:15
  ruin her, and perhaps both then the aggravation of the distresses that she does
• 2:33:20
  not believe he will not. But I must own if they are both what
• 2:33:26
  they would seem. They are made for one another as much as Adam and
• 2:33:30
  Eve were, for there is no other of their kind but themselves. And
• 2:33:35
  to boy, so Daniel, what news with you, madam? There a
• 2:33:43
  gentleman below would speak with my lady, sir. Don't you know mister Bevil
• 2:33:48
  Yet, Madam, this is not the gentleman who comes every day and asks
• 2:33:54
  for you and won't go in till he knows whether you are with her or
• 2:33:56
  no. Hah, that particular I did not know before. Well be it
• 2:34:03
  who it will? Let him come up to me? Exit boy and re
• 2:34:09
  enters with mister sealand Isabella looks amazed. Madam. I can't blame your being
• 2:34:16
  a little surprised to see a perfect stranger make a visit. And I am
• 2:34:20
  indeed surprised a side I see he does not know me. You are very
• 2:34:28
  prettily lodged here, Madam. In truth, it seems you have everything in
• 2:34:33
  plenty aside, and looking about a thousand a year, I warrant you upon
• 2:34:39
  this pretty nest of rooms, and the deity one within them Isabella. Apart
• 2:34:48
  twenty years, it seems of less effect in the alteration of a man of
• 2:34:52
  thirty than of a girl of fourteen. He's almost still the same. But
• 2:34:58
  alas I find by other men as well as himself, I am not what
• 2:35:03
  I was. As soon as he spoke, I was convinced twas he.
• 2:35:09
  How shall I contain my surprise and satisfaction? He must not know me yet,
• 2:35:16
  Madam, I hope I don't give you any disturbance. But there is
• 2:35:20
  a young lady here with whom I have a particular business to discourse, and
• 2:35:26
  I hope she will admit me to that favor. Why, sir, have
• 2:35:31
  you had any notice concerning her? I wonder who could give it you that
• 2:35:37
  madam is fit early to be communicated to herself? Well, sir, you
• 2:35:43
  shall see her aside. I find he knows nothing yet, nor shall from
• 2:35:50
  me. I am resolved. I will observe this interlude the sport of nature
• 2:35:54
  and of fortune. You shall see her presently, sir. For now I
• 2:36:01
  am as a mother, and will trust her with you exit as a mother.
• 2:36:07
  All right, that's the old phrase for one of these commoed ladies who
• 2:36:11
  lend out beauty for hire to young gentlemen that have pressing occasions. But here
• 2:36:18
  comes a precious lady herself in truth, a very sightly woman, enter Indiana.
• 2:36:26
  I am told, sir, you have some affair that requires your speaking
• 2:36:28
  with me. Yes, madam, they came to my hands a bill drawn
• 2:36:33
  by mister Bevell, which is payable to morrow, and he, in nearly
• 2:36:37
  course of business, sent it to me, who have cash of his,
• 2:36:41
  and desired me to send a servant with it. But I've made boud to
• 2:36:46
  bring you the money myself, sir. Was that necessary, no, madam?
• 2:36:52
  But to be free with you. The fame of your beauty and the
• 2:36:56
  regard which mister Bebell is a little who well known to have for you excited
• 2:37:01
  my curiosity, too well known to have for me. Your sober appearance,
• 2:37:07
  sir, which my friend described, made me expect no rudeness or absurdity at
• 2:37:11
  least who's there? Sir? If you pay the money to a servant,
• 2:37:16
  twill be as well. Pray, madam, be not offended. I came
• 2:37:20
  hither on an innocent nay, a virtuous design, And if you will have
• 2:37:26
  patience to hear me, it may be as useful to you as you are
• 2:37:30
  in a friendship with mister bevill as to my early daughter, whom I was
• 2:37:35
  this day disposing of you. Make me hope, Sir, I have mistaken
• 2:37:39
  you. I am composed again. Be free, say on a sight what
• 2:37:45
  I am afraid to hear. I feared, indeed an unwarranted passion here,
• 2:37:50
  but I did not think it was an abuse of so worthy an object,
• 2:37:54
  so accomplished a lady, as your sense and mien bespeak. But the youth
• 2:38:00
  of our age care not what merit or virtue they bring to shame, should
• 2:38:03
  they gratify. Sir, you are going into very great errors. But as
• 2:38:09
  you are pleased to say, you see something in me that has changed at
• 2:38:11
  least the color of your suspicions. So has your appearance altered mine and made
• 2:38:16
  me earnestly attentive to what has any way concerned you to inquire into my affairs
• 2:38:22
  and character, how sensibly and with what an air she talks? Good sir,
• 2:38:28
  be seated, and tell me tenderly keep all your suspicions concerning me alive,
• 2:38:33
  that you may, in a proper and prepared way acquaint me. Why
• 2:38:37
  the care of your daughter obliges a person of your seeming worth and fortune to
• 2:38:43
  be thus inquisitive about a wretched, helpless friendless weeping. But I beg your
• 2:38:52
  pardon. Though I am an orphan, your child is not, and your
• 2:38:58
  concern for her, it seems, has hither I'll be composed pray. Go
• 2:39:03
  on, sir, How would mister Bevil be such a monster to injure such
• 2:39:07
  a woman? No, sir, you wrong him. He has not injured
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  me. My support is from his bounty, bounty. When gluttons give high
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  prices for delicates, they are prodigious, bountiful. Still still you will persist
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  in that error. But my own fears tell me all you are the gentleman
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  I suppose, for whose happy daughter he is designed a husband by his good
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  father, And he has perhaps consented to the overture. He was here this
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  morning dressed beyond his usual plainness, nay more sumptuously, and he is to
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  be, perhaps this night a bridegroom. I own he was intended such.
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  But Madam, on your account, I have determined to defer my daughter's marriage
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  till I am satisfied from your own mouth of what nature are the the obligations
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  you are under to him? His actions, Sir, his eyes have only
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  made me think he designed to make me the partner of his heart. The
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  goodness and gentleness of his demeanor made me misinterpret all, choose my own hope,
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  my own passion that deluded me. He never made one amorous advance to
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  me. His large heart and bestowing haunt have only helped them miserable. Nor
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  know I why, but from his mere delight in virtue that I have been
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  his care and the object on which to indulge and please himself with boring favors.
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  Madam, I know not why it is, but I, as well
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  as you am, methinks, afraid of entering into the matter I came about.
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  But tis the same thing as if we had talked, never so distinctly.
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  He ne'er shall have a daughter of mine. If you say this from
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  what you think of me, you wrong yourself and him. Let not me
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  miserable, though I may be doing injury to my benefactor. No, Sir,
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  my treatment ought rather to reconcile you to his virtues. If to bestow
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  without a prospect of return, if to delight in supporting what might perhaps be
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  thought an object of desire, with no other view than to be her guard
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  against those who would not be so disinterested. If this action, Sir can,
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  in a careful parent's eye, commend him to a daughter, Give yours,
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  sir, give her to my honest, generous bevil. What have I
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  to do but sigh and weep and rave, run wild a lunatic in chains,
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  or hid in darkness, mutter in destructed starts and broken accents, my
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  strange, strange story de comfort, madam? All my comfort must be to
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  expostulate in madness, to relieve with friends, in my despair and shrieking,
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  to demand of fate? Why why was I born to such variety of sorrows?
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  If I have been the occasion, no, twas Heaven's high will,
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  I should be such to be plundered in my cradle, tossed on the seas,
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  and even there an infant captive to lose my mother here but of my
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  father to be adopted, lose my adopter, then plunged again into worse calamities.
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  Had infant captive? Yet then to find the most charming of mankind once
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  more to set me free from what I thought the last distress, to load
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  me with his services, his bounties, and his favors, to support my
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  very life in a way that stall at the same time my very solid self
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  from me. But has young Bevil been this worthy man? Yet? Then
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  again, this very man to take another without leaving me the right the pretence
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  of easing my fond heart with tears, for oh, I can't reproach him,
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  though the same and that raised me to this height now throws me down
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  the precipice. Dear lady, Oh, yet one moment's patience. My heart
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  grows full with your affliction. But yet there's something in your story that my
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  portion here is bitterness and sorrow. Do not think so? Pray? Answer
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  me? Does bebel know your name and family alas too? Well? Could
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  I be any other thing than what I am? I'll tear away all traces
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  of my former self, my little ornaments, the remains of my first state,
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  the hints of what I owe to have been in her disorder. She
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  throws away a bracelet, which Celen takes up and looks earnestly on it.
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  Ah, what's this? My eyes are not deceived. It is. It
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  is the same, the very bracelet which I bequeathed to my wife. But
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  allah mournful parting, What said you, sir, your wife? Whither does
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  my fancy carry me? What means this unfelt motion at my heart? And
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  yet again my fortune but deludes me? For if I are not, sir,
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  your name is Silant. But my lost father's name was Danvers. Was
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  it not? What new amazement? That is indeed my family? Now?
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  Then, when my misfortunes drew me to the Indies, the reasons too tedious
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  now to mention, I changed my name of Danvers into Sealand and to Isabella.
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  If yet there wants an explanation of your wonder, examine Welvi's face,
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  yours, sir, I well remember gaze on and reading me your sister Isabella,
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  my sister. But here's a claim more tender. Yet you're Indie Anna,
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  sir, your long lost daughter. Oh my child, my child,
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  all grashus heaven? Is it possible? Do I embrace my father? And
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  I do hold thee These passions are too strong for utterance. Rise, rise,
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  my child, and give my tears their way, Oh my sister,
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  embracing her now dearest niece, My groundless fears, my painful cares, no
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  more shall vex THEE. If I have wronged thy noble lover with too much
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  suspicion, my just concern for THEE, I hope will plead my pardon.
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  Oh, make him then the full amends, and be yourself the messenger of
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  joy. Fly this instant. Tell him all these wondrous tons of providence in
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  his favor. Tell him I have now a daughter to bestow, which he
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  no longer will decline that this day he still shall be a bridegroom, Nor
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  shall a fortune the merit which his father seeks be wanting. Tell him the
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  reward of all his virtues waits on his acceptance. Exitisabella, my dearest Indiana,
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  turns and embraces her. Have I then, at last a father's sanction
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  on my love, his bunch's hunt to give and make my heart a present
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  worthy of Beaviel's generosity? Oh, my child, how are our sorrows passed
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  or paid by such a meeting? Though I have lost so many years of
• 2:46:41
  soft paternal dealings with THEE, Yet in one day to find THEE thus and
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  thus bestow THEE in such perfect happiness is ample, ample reparation. And yet
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  again the merit of thy lover, Oh hard eyed spirits left to tell you
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  of his actions, how strongly filial duty has suppressed his love, and how
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  counselment still has doubled all his obligations. The pride, the joy of his
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  alliance, Sir, would warm your heart as he has conquered mine. How
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  laudable is love when born a virtue. I burned to embrace him. See,
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  Sir, my aunt already has succeeded and brought him to your wishes.
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  Enter Isabella with Sir John Bevill, Bevillgunior Missus sealand Symbatot Metal and Lucinda.
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  Sir John Bevill entering where where is this scene of wonder? Mister Sealand I
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  congratulate on this occasion our mutual happiness. Your good sister, Sir, has
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  with the story of your daughter's fortune, Phildus with surprise and joy. Now
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  all exceptions are removed. My son has now avowed his love and turned all
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  former jealous endoweds to approbation. And I am told your Goodness has consented to
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  reward him if Sir, a fortune equal to his father's hopes can make this
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  object worthy his acceptance. I hear your mentions, Sir, A fortune with
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  pleasure only as it may prove the means to reconcile the best of fathers to
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  my love. Let him be provident, but let me be happy, my
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  ever destined, my acknowledged wife, embracing Indiana wife, Oh, my ever
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  loved, my lord, my master. I congratulate myself as well as you
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  that I had a son who could, under such disadvantages, discover your great
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  merit, Oh, sir John, how vain? How weak is human prudence?
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  What care? What foresight? What imagination could contrive such blessed events to
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  make out children happy? As providence? In one sh sho? What hour
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  has laid before us? Simpleton? To missus Sealand, I am afraid,
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  ma'am, mister Sealand is a little too busy for our affair. If you
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  please, we'll take another opportunity. Let us have patience, sir, But
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  we make Sir Jeffrey wait, ma'am, Oh sir, I am not in
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  haste During this devil Junior presents Liscinda to Indiana. But here here's our general
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  benefactor, excellent young man, They could at once be a lover to her
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  beauty and a parent to her virtue. If you think that an obligation,
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  Sir, give me leave to overpay myself in the only instance that can now
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  add to my felicity. By begging you now to bestow this lady on mister
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  Myrtle. She is his without reserve. I beg you me be sent for,
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  mister Simberton, notwithstanding you never had my consent. Yet there is since
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  I last saw you, another objection to your marriage with my daughter. I
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  hope, sir, your lady has concealed nothing from me. Truths are nothing
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  but what was concealed from myself another daughter who has an undoubted title to half
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  my estate? How mister sealand why then, if half missus Lucinda's fortune is
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  gone, you can't say that any of my estate is settled upon her.
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  I was entreaty for the whole, but if that is not to be come
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  at, to be sure, there can be no bargain, Sir. I
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  have nothing to do but take my leave of your good lady, my cousin,
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  and beg pardon for the trouble. I have given this old gentleman that
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  you have, Mister Simberton, with all my heart, Myrtle discovers himself,
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  mister, mister Myrtle, and I beg pardon of the whole company that I
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  assume the person of Sir Jeffrey only to be present at the danger of this
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  lady being disposed of and in her utmost exigence to assert my rights to her,
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  which, if her parents will ratify as they once favored my pretensions,
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  no abatement of fortune shall lessen her value to me. Generous man, if
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  sir you can overlook the injury of being entreaty with one who has meanly left
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  her, as you have generously asserted your right in her, she is yours,
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  mister Myrtle. Though you have ever had my heart, yet now I
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  find I love you more because I bring you less. We have much more
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  than we want, and I am glad any event has contributed to the discovery
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  of our real inclinations to each other. Missus celand aside well, however,
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  I'm glad the girls disposed of anyway. Myrtle no longer rivals now. But
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  Brothers, dear Bevil, you are born to triumph over me. But now
• 2:52:20
  our competition ceases. I rejoice in the pre eminence of your virtue. And
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  your alliance adds charms to Lucinda. Now, ladies and gentlemen, you have
• 2:52:31
  set the world a fair example. Your happiness is owing to your constancy and
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  merit, and the several difficulties you have struggled with evidently show whate'er the generous
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  mind itself denies the secret care of providence supplies excellent epilook. Our author,
• 2:52:52
  Whoman treatise cannot move spite of the dear coquetry that you love swears he'll not
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  frustrate so plainly means by a loose epilogue his decent scenes, Is it not,
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  sir as hard fate? I meet to day to keep me reach it
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  still beyond the play, And yet I'm saved a world of pains that way
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  I now can look. I now can move at ease. Nor need I
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  torture these poor limbs to please, nor with a hand or foot attempt surprise,
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  nor rest my features, nor fatigue my eyes bless me? What freakish
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  gambols have I played? What motions tried and want and looks betrayed out of
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  pure kindness, all to overrule the threatened hiss and screen some scribbling full with
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  more respect im entertained. Tonight are other things I can with ease delight my
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  artless looks, while modest Grace's arm, He says, I need but to
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  appear in charm. A wife so formed by these examples bred pours joy and
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  gladden round the marriage bed, soft source of comfort, kind relief from care,
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  And tis her least perfection to be fair. The nymph with Indiana's worth,
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  whose eyes a nation will behold with Bevil's eyes. End of Act five.
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  End of The Conscious Lovers by Richard Steele