Category: Humour
_Enter TOM FASHION and LORY, POSTILION following with a portmanteau_. _Fash_. Lory, pay the postboy, and take the portmanteau. _Lory. [Aside to TOM FASHION_.] Faith, sir, we had better let the postboy take the portmanteau and pay himself. _Fash. [Aside to LORY_.] Why, sure, th...
Mr. _and_ MRS. DANGLE _discovered at breakfast, and reading newspapers_. _Dang. [Reading.] Brutus to Lord North.--Letter the second on the State of the Army_--Psha! _To the firs...
12. Chapter 12Enter_ MISS HOYDEN, NURSE, _and_ TOM FASHION. _Fash_. This quick despatch of the chaplain's I take so kindly it shall give him claim to my favour as long as I live, I assure you...
16. Chapter 16"_Two_ SENTINELS _discovered asleep_." _Dang_. Tilbury Fort!--very fine indeed! _Puff_. Now, what do you think I open with? _Sneer_. Faith, I can't guess-- _Puff_. A clock.--Har...
3. Chapter 3_Enter_ LOVELESS _and_ AMANDA. _Love_. How do you like these lodgings, my dear? For my part, I am so pleased with them, I shall hardly remove whilst we stay here, if you are sat...
14. Chapter 14MRS. DANGLE, SIGNOR PASTICCIO RITORNELLO, SIGNORE PASTICCIO RITORNELLO, INTERPRETER, _and_ MUSICIANS _discovered_. _Interp_. Je dis, madame, j'ai l'honneur to introduce et de vo...
17. Chapter 17_Enter_ PUFF, SNEER, _and_ DANGLE. _Puff_. Well, we are ready; now then for the justices. [_Curtain rises._] "JUSTICES, CONSTABLES, &c., _discovered_." _Sneer_. This, I suppose,...
2. Chapter 2_Enter_ LORD FOPPINGTON _in his dressing-gown, and_ LA VAROLE. _Lord Fop._ [_Aside._] Well,'tis an unspeakable pleasure to be a man of quality--strike me dumb! Even the boors of...
8. Chapter 8_Enter_ MISS HOYDEN _and_ NURSE. _Nurse_. Well, miss, how do you like your husband that is to be? _Miss Hoyd_. O Lord, nurse, I'm so overjoyed I can scarce contain myself! _Nurs...
1. Chapter 1_Enter TOM FASHION and LORY, POSTILION following with a portmanteau_. _Fash_. Lory, pay the postboy, and take the portmanteau. _Lory. [Aside to TOM FASHION_.] Faith, sir, we had...
5. Chapter 5Enter_ LOVELESS _and_ SERVANT. _Love_. Is my wife within? _Ser_. No, sir, she has gone out this half-hour. _Love_. Well, leave me.--[_Exit_ SERVANT.] How strangely does my mind...
11. Chapter 11_Enter_ LOVELESS. _Love_. Now, does she mean to make a fool of me, or not! I shan't wait much longer, for my wife will soon be inquiring for me to set out on our supping party....
4. Chapter 4Enter_ LORD FOPPINGTON, _and_ LA VAROLE. _Lord Fop_. Hey, fellow, let thy vis-a-vis come to the door. _La Var_. Will your lordship venture so soon to expose yourself to the weat...
10. Chapter 10_Enter_ LOVELESS. _Love._ So, thus far all's well: I have got into her dressing-room, and it being dusk, I think nobody has perceived me steal into the house. I heard Berinthia...
6. Chapter 6_Enter_ TOM FASHION _and_ LORY. _Fash_. So here's our inheritance, Lory, if we can but get into possession. But methinks the seat of our family looks like Noah's ark, as if the...
15. Chapter 15_Enter_ DANGLE, PUFF, and SNEER. _Puff_: No, no, sir; what Shakspeare says of actors may be better applied to the purpose of plays; they ought to be the abstract and brief chron...
9. Chapter 9_Enter_ AMANDA _followed by her_ MAID. _Maid._ If you please, madam, only to say whether you'll have me buy them or not? _Aman._ Yes--no--Go, teaser; I care not what you do. Pr'...
7. Chapter 7MISS HOYDEN _discovered alone_. _Miss Hoyd_. Sure, nobody was ever used as I am! I know well enough what other girls do, for all they think to make a fool o' me. It's well I hav...