Category: Humour

The spoil'd child: A farce, in two acts, as performed at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane

Bickerstaff, Isaac, 1735-1812; Ford, Richard, Sir, -1806; Hoare, Prince, 1755-1834; Jordan, Dorothy, 1761-1816· 2 chapters· 6,320 words

_Miss P._ Aye, till the next breaking up—no—no, brother, unless he is severely punished for what he has already done, depend upon it this vicious humour will be confirmed into habit, and his follies increase in proportion with his years.

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1. SCENE I.—_A Dining Parlour.—PICKLE and his sister sitting by a table, on

_Miss P._ Aye, till the next breaking up—no—no, brother, unless he is severely punished for what he has already done, depend upon it this vicious humour will be confirmed into h...

2. ACT II.

_Mar._ Aye, have I—poor Tommy, he came from a-board a ship but now, and is so grown, and altered—sure enough he believes every word I have told him, as your honour ordered me, a...