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Alith better BLACKACRE Caut Chris Christina confess Country Wife cousin Cros cuckold d'ye damned dance dancing-master Dapperwit daughter dear door Eliza Enter Exeunt Exit faith father Flip Flirt follow fool Free gallant gentleman GERRARD Gripe hate hear HIPPOLITA honour Horn Horner husband impudence jealous Joyn Joyner kiss Lady Fid Lady FLIPPANT Le Misanthrope lodging look Lord lover Lucy madam marriage marry mistress Mons Monsieur ne'er never night Oliv Olivia on't pardon Pinch PINCHWIFE Plain Dealer Plau play poet poor pray prithee Prue Ranger Re-enter rogue servant Sir Jasp Sir Sim Sir Simon Spanish Spark SPARKISH speak Squeam stay sure talk tell thee there's thou art town twas twill W. C. WARD warrant wench widow wife WILLIAM WYCHERLEY woman women Wycherley Wycherley's young
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Page iv - What things have we seen Done at the Mermaid! heard words that have been So nimble, and so full of subtle flame, As if that every one (from whence they came) Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest, And had resolved to live a fool the rest Of his dull life...
Page 226 - How, sir! if you are not concerned for the honour of a wife, I am for that of a sister; he shall not debauch her. Be a pander to your own wife! bring men to her! let 'em make love before your face! thrust 'em into a corner together, then leave 'em in private! is this your town wit and conduct?
Page 382 - Fid. I warrant you, sir, I am already all joy with the hopes of your commands; and shall be all wings in the execution of 'em: speak quickly, sir.
Page 385 - Kings-Bench, bluster, sputter, question, cavil; but be sure your argument be intricate enough to confound the court: And then you do my business. Talk what you will, but be sure your tongue never stand still; for your own noise will secure your sense from censure: 'tis like coughing or heming when one has got the belly-ake, which stifles the unmannerly noise.
Page 327 - Are as dull rogues as ever cumber'd stage: He draws a friend only to custom just, And makes him naturally break his trust. I, only, act a part like none of you, And yet you'll say, it is a fool's part too: An honest man who, like you, never winks At faults; but, unlike you, speaks what he thinks: The only fool who ne'er found patron yet, For truth is now a fault as well as wit.
Page 291 - I think on't too, Horner said he was sorry she had married Sparkish; and her disowning her marriage to me makes me think she has evaded it for Homer's sake: yet why should she take this course?
Page 376 - But I say, sir, you are a beggarly younger brother, twenty years younger than her; without any land or stock, but your great stock of impudence: therefore what pretension can you have to her?
Page 452 - Matrimony, to a Woman, is worse than Excommunication, in depriving her of the benefit of the Law : and I wou d rather be depriv'd of life.
Page 235 - Horner, will you never keep civil company? methinks 'tis time now, since you are only fit for them. Come. come, man, you must e'en fall to visiting our wives, eating at our tables, drinking tea with our virtuous relations after dinner, dealing cards to 'em, reading plays and gazettes to 'em, picking fleas out of their smocks for 'em, collecting receipts, new songs, women, pages, and footmen for 'em.
Page xlii - I doubt not he did all his acquaintance, that he would marry as soon as his life was despaired of. Accordingly, a few days before his death, he underwent the ceremony, and joined together those two sacraments which wise men say...