Category: Plays/Films/Dramas
_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 years old the fifth day of next March.
_Arch._ O madam, the fame of your ladyship's charity, goodness, benevolence, skill, and ability, have drawn me hither, to implore your ladyship's help in behalf of my unfortunat...
1. SCENE I._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...
6. SCENE III._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...
3. SCENE II._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...
13. SCENE IV._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 b...
2. SCENE I._Dor._ But there's a form of law at Doctors' Commons; and I swear, sister Sullen, rather than see you thus continually discontented, I would advise you to apply to that: for bes...
5. SCENE II._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. SCENE II._Arch._ Ay, now is the time to prevent all this--Strike while the iron is hot--The priest is the luckiest part of our adventure; he shall marry you, and pimp for me. But here co...
11. ACT V SCENE III_Arch._ Indeed I did, madam, but I would have taken nothing but what you might very well have spared; but your crying, Thieves, has waked this dreaming fool, and so he takes the...
9. SCENE I._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. SCENE I._Mrs. Sul._ Pshaw! now you spoil all; why should not we be as free in our friendships as the men? I warrant you, the gentleman has got to his confidant already, has avowed his p...
12. SCENE III._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_ ROGUES _together_.] if our adve...
10. SCENE II._Mrs. Sul._ Here? what, in my bedchamber, at two o'clock i'th' morning, I undressed, the family asleep, my hated husband abroad, and my lovely fellow at my feet!----O, gad, sister!
14. Act 2: end of Scene 1, Mrs. Sullen's penultimate speech: