The London Stage Volume 1; A Collection of the Most Reputed Tragedies, Comedies, Operas, Melo-Dramas, Farces, and Interludes. Accurately Printed from Acting Copies as Performed at the Theatres Royal and Carefully Collated and Revised (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ...Colonel, with submission, I think there is no occasion to go out of our own country here; we have never a duke in it, I believe, but we have manv an honest gentleman, who, in my opinion, it. i.Mil deserve the young lady. Col. So, you would have me marry Dy to a country 'squire, eh How say you to this, Dy? would not you rather be married to a duke? Dia. So my husband's a rake, papa, I don't care what he is." Col. A rake you d--d confounded little baggage; why you would not wish to marry a rake, wou'd you? So her husband is a rake, she does not care what he is' Ha, ha, ha, ha Via. Well, but listen to me, papa: when you go out with your gun, do you take any pleasure in shooting the poor tame ducks and chickens in your yard? No, the partridge, the pheasant, the woodcock, are the game: there is some sport in bringing them down, because they are wild; and it is just the same w ith an husband or a lover. I would not waste powder and shot, to wound one of your sober, pretty behaved geutlemen; but to hit a libertine, extravagaut, madcap fell'jw, to take him upon the wing--Cot. Do yon hear her, master Jenkins? Ha, ha, ha'. Jenk.VfeM, but, good Colonel, what do yon say to my worthy nnd honourable patron here, Sir John Flowerdafe? He has an estate of eight thousand pounds a year, as well paid rents as any in the kingdom, and bat one only daughter to enjoy it; and yet he is willing, yon see, to give this daughter to your son. Dia. Pray, Mr. Jenkins, how does Miss Clarissa and our university friend, Mr. Lionel? That is the only grave young man I ever liked, and the onlyhandsome one I ever was acquainted with, that did not make love to me. Col. Ay, master Jenkins, who is this Lionel? They say ne is a d--d, witty, knowing fellow; and egad, I think him well enough for one...