Category: Plays/Films/Dramas
_Such dreadful Laws of late 'gainst Wit are made,_ _It dares not in the City show its Head._ _No Place is safe; each Cuckold turns Informer,_ _If we make merry--it must be in a Corner._ _And here's To-night, what doubly makes it sweet,_ _A private Table, and a Lady's Treat:_ _...
_Aur._ I wonder much at my _Bassino_'s Stay: Oh! Love! how swiftly fly thy Hours away When we are blest! How tedious are thy Minutes When cruel Absence parts two longing Lovers!
12. ACT IV. SCENE I._Arm._ Dear Madam, moderate your Sorrow: Reserve those Tears to move _Bassino_'s Heart, Mine is all Pity: You may rest secure Of all the Arguments a Friend can use To bring him...
4. SCENE III._Aur._ No more of that--Cease thy ungrateful Suit, _Alonzo_ is a Man I cannot love; I own he's witty, generous, and brave; Has all the Charms that Nature can bestow To fire a Wo...
7. SCENE II.L. _Piz._ Not come yet! ungrateful Man! must a Woman of my Quality wait? How have we lost our Pow'r since the Creation? When the whole World had but one single Lord, Whom every...
8. ACT III. SCENE I._Aur._ Away, away----Talk not of Reputation, When Love's in t'other Scale--But what can shock my Reputation; Heaven's my Witness, I ne'er lodg'd a Thought, For Count _Bassino_ t...
6. ACT II. SCENE I._Lucy._ Madam, I did; I found him in his Study, reading the Lover's Watch, which he swears does not at all agree with his Constitution. He hates Injunctions of Love, like those...
13. SCENE II. Pizalto's _Lodgings_._Piz._ Why, what makes this young Jade stay so long? Adod, this is to pay before hand----Ha----methinks I hear a Laughing and Giggling in my Wife's Apartment; I must know whence...
14. ACT V. SCENE I._Bass._ I can't imagine where I dropt my Letter: Pray Heaven it be where none can ever find it. Gods! Let me once enjoy her, then call on me Your Store of Plagues, and I will me...
9. SCENE II. _Lady_ Pizalta's _Lodgings_._Lucy._ (_Aside._) Truly you have Reason to say so, for 'tis not the first Intrigue I have manag'd for you----Oh! dear Madam, your Ladyship does me too much Honour----But how do...
3. SCENE II._Bass._ All Things lie hush'd in peaceful Silence here: All but _Bassino_'s Mind----Oh! happy he Who lives secure and free from Love's Alarms. But happier far, who, Master of hi...
2. ACT I. SCENE I.L. Piz. Oh! _Lucy_, I'm undone---- That Stranger there has charm'd my Heart: I feel The Pow'r of conquering Love; quick, quickly tell me, What shall I do to ease this racking Pa...
10. SCENE III. _The Piazza._Lud._ If thou meanest thy Lady, with all my Heart--But I can tell thee, she'll rather prove Oil, than what you speak of----But, say, where am I to see my lovely Charmer?
5. SCENE IV. Ludovico's _Lodgings_._Lud._ _Mountaine_, run to Signiora _Ronquilla_, and tell her I have done with her for ever, if she does not send this Evening the hundred Ducats she promised to lend me----And...
1. VOLUME ONE_Such dreadful Laws of late 'gainst Wit are made,_ _It dares not in the City show its Head._ _No Place is safe; each Cuckold turns Informer,_ _If we make merry--it must be in a...
11. SCENE IV. Pizalto's _Lodgings_._Piz._ Well--My Wife's a fine Woman! a very fine Woman! But a Pox she's a Wife still, and this young Jade runs in my Head plaguily: Well----here 'tis under my Hand; a Thousand P...