Category: Humour
_Bon_. Sir, I have now in my cellar ten tun of the best ale in Staffordshire; 'tis smooth as oil, sweet as milk, clear as amber, and strong as brandy; and will be just fourteen year old the fifth day of next March, old style.
_Mrs. Sul_. Were I born an humble Turk, where women have no soul nor property, there I must sit contented. But in England, a country whose women are its glory, must women be abu...
6. Chapter 6_Arch_. 'Tis enough. You must know, then, that my master is the Lord Viscount Aimwell; he fought a duel t' other day in London, wounded his man so dangerously, that he thinks fi...
1. Chapter 1_Bon_. Sir, I have now in my cellar ten tun of the best ale in Staffordshire; 'tis smooth as oil, sweet as milk, clear as amber, and strong as brandy; and will be just fourteen...
12. Chapter 12_Dor_. Well, well, my lord, you have conquered; your late generous action will, I hope, plead for my easy yielding; though I must own, your lordship had a friend in the fort bef...
3. Chapter 3_Arch_. In the usual forms, good sir, after I have served myself.--But to our business. You are so well dressed, Tom, and make so handsome a figure, that I fancy you may do exec...
10. Chapter 10_Mrs. Sul_. Here! what, in my bedchamber at two o'clock o' th' morning, I undressed, the family asleep, my hated husband abroad, and my lovely fellow at my feet!--O 'gad, sister!
2. Chapter 2_Dor_. But there's a form of law in Doctors-Common and I swear, sister Sullen, rather than see you this continually discontented, I would advise you apply to that: for besides t...
5. Chapter 5_Aim_. Aimwell! call me Oroondates, Cesario, Amadis, all that romance can in a lover paint, and then I 'll answer. O Archer! I read her thousands in her looks, she looked like C...
8. Chapter 8_Aim_. Well, well, anything to deliver us from sauntering away our idle evenings at White's, Tom's, or Will's and be stinted to bare looking at our old acquaintance, the cards;...
9. Chapter 9_Squire Sul_. Ay, sir; and unless you have pity upon me, and smoke one pipe with me, I must e'en go home to my wife, and I had rather go to the devil by half.
4. Chapter 4_Mrs. Su_., Ha! ha! ha! my dear sister, let me embrace thee! now we are friends indeed; for I shall have a secret of yours as a pledge for mine--now you'll be good for something...
11. Chapter 11_Arch_. Right, right, the rogue's destiny, a rope to hang himself.--Come, my lord--this is but a scandalous sort of an office [_Binding the Highwaymen together_.] if our adventu...