English drama -- 17th century
PHIL. I’m at my wit’s ends, Savourwit. SAV. And I Am even following after you as fast As I can, sir. PHIL. My wife will be forc’d from me, My pleasure! SAV. Talk no more on’t, sir; how can there Be any hope i’ the middle, when we’re both At our wit’s end in the beginning? my i...
PHIL. I’m at my wit’s ends, Savourwit. SAV. And I Am even following after you as fast As I can, sir. PHIL. My wife will be forc’d from me, My pleasure! SAV. Talk no more on’t, s...
2. SCENE II.MIS. LOW. Is there no saving means, no help religious, For a distressèd gentlewoman to live by? Has virtue no revenue? who has all then? Is the world’s lease from hell, the devi...
3. SCENE III.SIR O. TWI. Good master Sandfield, for the great affection You bear toward my girl, I am well pleas’d You should enjoy her beauty; heaven forbid, sir, That I should cast away a...
4. ACT II. SCENE I._Enter_ WEATHERWISE _while Servants are setting out a table, and_ PICKADILL _looking on_. WEA. So, set the table ready; the widow’s i’ the next room, looking upon my clock with...
5. SCENE II.PHIL. If thou talk’st longer, I shall turn to marble, And death will stop my hearing. SAND. Horrible fortune! SAV. Nay, sir, our building is so far defac’d, There is no stuff le...
6. SCENE III.MIS. LOW. I’ve sent in one to the widow. LOW. Well said, Kate! Thou ply’st thy business close; the coast is clear yet. MIS. LOW. Let me but have warning, I shall make pretty shi...
7. ACT III.[109] SCENE I.WEA. Faith, sir Gilbert, forget and forgive; there’s all our hands to a new bargain of friendship. PEP. Ay, and all our hearts to boot, sir Gilbert. WEA. Why, la, you, there’s b...
8. ACT IV. SCENE I.SIR O. TWI. O my reviving joy! thy quickening presence Makes the sad night of threescore and ten years Sit like a youthful spring upon my blood: I cannot make thy welcome rich e...
9. SCENE II.PICK. Bestir your bones nimbly, you ponderous beef-buttocked knaves; what a number of lazy hinds do I keep company withal! where’s the flesh-colour velvet cushion now for my lad...
10. ACT V. SCENE I.L. GOLD. Now, like a greedy usurer alone, I sum up all the wealth this day has brought me, And thus I hug it. [_Embracing her._ MIS. LOW. Prithee—— L. GOLD. Thus I kiss it. [_Ki...
11. act v. sc. 2, the latter says,_the motion_, &c.] i. e. the puppet-show: that of Nineveh, which was very celebrated, has been mentioned before, vol. i. p. 229, and vol. iv. p. 166. In _Euerie Woman in her Hum...