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Tunbridge-Wells, or, A days courtship a comedy : as it is acted at the Dukes-Theatre / written by a person of quality ...
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Rawlins, Thomas, 1620?-1670.
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1678
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Wing R368; ESTC R21395
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Sister 's the more substantial Man and if Sir Lofty and you can make a Bargain the 1500 pounds I 've got shall be your portion Vain I superstitiously imbrace the proposition Court What without my approbation Vain I know you are too intelligent a Wit to refuse a Knight of 2000 a year Court And because I will not forfeit that reputation here 's my hand to the foolish bargain Owm. I shall expect present payment of the Bond you made to me tho th' other of your quondam Wifes proves bad Fair. How could he contract so great a debt to you Vain Let me dissolve like a Cherubim if he owes me not 200 Guinnies mony lent Fop. And me an hundred or I 'm a guilt Nutmeg Fair. What an unconscionable fellow wert thou was not 300 pounds an handsome purchase Be satisfied and give him up the Bond least you provoke me t' indite you for a Cheat. Owm. Upon condition they discharge the Guinnies they pretend I owe them there it is gives up the Bond. Fair. I 'le ingage they shall For you may fair Trapans I would advise you to pack up your tooles and post for London and there live penitentially this long Vacation on Mackarel and Cucumbers till Smith-field Pigs increase your commons Brag. Crac. You are a damn'd jeering Rogue Exeunt Brag and Crack Fair. Mr Quibble my Sister shall return your Cassock which she stripp'd you of when you were drunk take warning how you fuddle with Footmen and to morrow you shall have the profit of our Wedding and you Poet Witless may imploy this evening in composing Epithalamiums to be Sung to the Brides in the morning they may turn to better account than your next Droll Fop. I love you for this ne're go what shall become of me Fair. Y' had almost scapled my memory But since I have robbed you of one Wife the best justice is to help you to another a Medly of poor Wits and Rich Fooles make the best mixture in Nature and I 've a Sister in London at your Service Fop. The Deel swallow me if I post not to London within this minute to Court her Fair. T is now too late to cellebrate our Nuptials and too early to rectire a Country Dance may prove perhaps no very unpleasant motion Court Come Platonick let 's have a Dance at parting Wild. My condition is not so desperate as you imagine it for I can more confidently beg a kindness from a married Woman because the concession is less to her disadvantage Court Did I abound as much in Charity as you in hope the Knight were in a very dangerous condition Wild. I care not how little Charity you have for they say that 's extreamly cold give me love Court You know not how a Dance may warm it a Dance Fair. Tho th' execution of our first design met very ill success our obligations are still payable to your good intentions the proâ—ects were both Courtwits and she resolved to reserve the best t' â—er self as an Encomium of her Wit To Wilding Wild. To which I shall submissively subscribe Owm. And I for ever curse Fair. 'T were nobler to repent you plainly see No Wit can prosper without honesty Exeunt FINIS EPILOGUE HOw harmlessy we 've treated you to day There 's not one dangerous Line through all the Play There 's no keen biting Satyr to enrage The guilty Consciences of half the Age. No mighty Sense to make the Criticks jar And set the envious Tribe at mortal War No Lines so rare intrigues so wondrous wity Enough t' adjourn the Wits to a Committee And make the Chair-man o' th' Cabal cry ram him Confound him sink him split him rot him damn him Down with him for a sawcy son of a Whore He must be damn'd the Dog shall write no more No thanks to our safe Authors milder Stars He has no such dangers no such threatning fears He gives you no occasion for your spight Is no pretender to their fame that Write Then Gentlemen you may be kind to Night Yes there indeed 't is worth your while to frown 'T is victory to run great Authors down But let This Triflle of a Play creep safely under For Gallants 't is too humble for your Thunder Books newly Printed this Year 1678 and are to be Sold by Henry Rogers at the Sign of the Crown in VVestminster-Hall SCarrons Comical Romance or a facetious History of a Company of Stage-players interwoven with diverse curiâ—us and choice Novels rare Adventures and amorous Intrigues â—n Fol. 2. The wonder of the Peak of Darby commonly called the Devils Arse of Peak English and Latin Oct. 3. Melpomene or the Muses delight being new Poems and Songs Written by several of our Great Wits of the present Age Oct. 4. Camera Regis or the present State of London Oct. 5. The Works of Homer both Odysses and Illiads translated into English Verse by the famous Thomas Hobs of Malmsbury Twelves â—ogether with Mr. Hobs his Preface about Heroick Poetry and the â—ife of Homer 6. The Memoires and rare Adventures of that Heroick and vaâ—â—rous Lady Henrietta Sylvia Molierae now compleat in six parts Written by her self now living in France 7. Ten Dialogues of Natural Philosophy Written by Thomas â—obs of Malmsbury Oct. FINIS