Category: Humour
Kite. [_Making a Speech._] If any gentlemen soldiers or others, have a mind to serve his majesty, and pull down the French king; if any 'prentices have severe masters, any children have undutiful parents; if any servants have too little wages, or any husband too much wife, let...
Kite. [_Making a Speech._] If any gentlemen soldiers or others, have a mind to serve his majesty, and pull down the French king; if any 'prentices have severe masters, any child...
7. ACT III SCENE I_Rose._ Rose, sir. My father is a farmer within three short miles o' the town: we keep this market; I sell chickens, eggs, and butter, and my brother Bullock there sells corn.
9. SCENE I._Rose._ Lookye, I'm a great woman, and will provide for my relations: I told the captain how finely he played upon the tabor and pipe, so he sat him down for drum-major.
8. SCENE II._Mel._ And pray was it a ring, or buckle, or pendants, or knots; or in what shape was the almighty gold transformed, that has bribed you so much in his favour?
14. SCENE IV._Brazen._ Why then Fire and Fury! I have eaten Smoak from the Mouth of a Cannon, Sir; don't think I fear Powder, for I live upon't. Let me see. [_Takes one_.] And now, Sir, how...
13. SCENE III._Const._ He in the middle is Justice Balance, he on the right is Justice Scale, and he on the left is Justice Scruple, and I am Mr. Constable; four very honest gentlemen.
10. SCENE II._Kite._ [_Rising._] By the position of the heavens, gained from my observation upon these celestial globes, I find that Luna was a tide-waiter, Sol a surveyor, Mercury a thief,...
5. SCENE III._Kite._ Hey, boys! thus we soldiers live! drink, sing, dance, play;--we live, as one should say--we live--'tis impossible to tell how we live--we are all princes--why, why you a...
4. SCENE II._Bal._ We have but little reason to expect it; the doctor acquaints me here, that before this comes to my hands he fears I shall have no son.--Poor Owen! but the decree is just;...
2. SCENE II._Mel._ Welcome to town, cousin Sylvia. [_Salute._] I envied you your retreat in the country; for Shrewsbury, methinks, and all your heads of shires, are the most irregular place...
3. SCENE I._Bal._ Lookye, captain, give us but blood for our money, and you shan't want men. Ad's my life, captain, get us but another marshal of France, and I'll go myself for a soldier.
12. SCENE II._Plume._ A baker, a tailor, a smith, butchers, carpenters, and journeymen shoemakers, in all thirty-nine--I believe the first colony planted in Virginia had not more trades in t...
11. SCENE I._Bal._ Lookye, Mr. Scale, for my own part I shall be very tender in what regards the officers of the army--I only speak in reference to Captain Plume--for the other spark I know...
6. SCENE I._Wor._ I cannot forbear admiring the equality of our fortunes: we love two ladies, they meet us half way, and just as we were upon the point of leaping into their arms, fortune...