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The mock-duellist, or, The French vallet a comedy acted at the Theatre Royal by His Majesties servants / written by P.B., Gent.
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Belon, P. (Peter)
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1675
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Wing B1854; ESTC R22744
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THE MOCK-DUELLIST OR The French Vallet A COMEDY Acted at the THEATRE ROYAL By his Majesties Servants Written by P. B. Gent. Licensed May 27. 1675. Roger L'Estrange LONDON Printed by J. C. for William Crooke at the Green Dragon without Temple-bar 1675. TO THE VERTUOUS ACCOMPLISHED Lady MADAM S. C. MADAM THe French Vallet according to his natural Insolence throws himself at your feet not in his broken English with a Begar Madam mee voul ave it de so but in that Dialect used by the most refin'd Wits Vous supplye tres humblement Le regarder d'un aspect favorable Which blessing he vows is a sufficient saveguard against those three Fatalities of Books Envy Spight and Malice I know Madam that to have shrowded under your generous protection all that the greatest Gallantry of the two most Polite Nations of the world could have wound up to the highest sublimity of Wit had worn some face of Justice which might have rendred the presumption excusable it being so generally known that none with more reason than your self could undertake the Censure of what is so much your own I mean La parfaite cognoissance du beau Monde But Champagne's Crime can plead no excuse and being beyond the reach of â—rdinary Clemencie can have no other hopes than in â—hat goodness which shines with so much Lustre â—hroughout all your actions Take pitty of him Madam and while your hand is in pardon also the â—iberty which his Advocate takes of subscribing himself Madam Your most humble Servant P. B. THE PROLOGUE YE who will judge and ye that can indeed And Right rather than long Prescription plead To both we equally do bow this night Owning the Power of one and th' other's right Our Poet says h 'as brought you a new Play Or if no new dish dress'd another way And better too he thinks Plot Humour Wit The Devil 's in it if it do not hit Leading you not through horrid rugged ways Knows better how to please than to amaze Of Lines of Wonder you have had enow That pose your Intellect and th' Authors too And to this Ages spight will live perplex't To dare the Vnderstanding of the next His easier Scene no big-swoln rumbling speaks That while you look on 't like a Bubble breaks Tumbling along with an amazing noise But his accoast is gentle Nature's voice In this conceit he brisks begins to swell And swears he shall come off at least as well As some applauded Freemen of the Trade Whom neither Art nor Nature Poets made 'T were brave if 't would go thus and you should be Perswaded to believe 't as well as he But he 'll go less for all this little Huff At other intervals he 's tame enough And wisely then considers what is due From his bold weakness to such Powers as you You whose Prerogative is understood To give the stamp and make the Mettle good With Priviledge as great and unconfin'd As his who Leather into Money coin'd Actors NAMES Sir Amorous Frost An old doating Knight in love with Kitty Noble Sir Hope Coggin Suiter to the Lady Lovewealth Noble Servant to Diana Coggin Crosby Servant to Phill. Airy Peregrine Airy Young Airy Brothers Shift A Cheat. Slye Noble's man Champagne A French servant to Sir Amorous Clay A Country-Bumpking Suiter to the Lady Lovewealth Clunch Clay 's man A Brave Thieves Constable and Watch. Maskers Musique and Attendance The Lady Lovewealth A covetous Lady Diana Sister to Sir Cog. Mrs. to Noble Phill. Sister to the Airies in love with Sir Cog. Mrs. Crostitch Mrs. of the School Kitty Sister to Noble Phanny Betrothed to Crosby Lysse Woman to Diana Siss Woman to Phill. Prew Woman to the Lady Lovewealth The SCENE Covent-garden A CATALOGUE of BOOKS Newly Printed for William Crook 1. SIr Henry Blunt's Voyage into the Levant in 12. Price 1 s. 2. The Flower-garden shewing how all sorts of Flowers are to be Ordered The time of Flowering taking them up and Planting them c. By W. Hughes 12. Price 1 s. 3. Poems of the Right Reverend Dr. Rich. Corbet late Lord Bishop of Norwich Corrected and inlarged Price 1 s. 4. The American Physitian shewing all the Vertues Uses c. of all the Roots Plants c. in the English Plantations in America With a Discourse teaching how to make Chocolette c. By W. Hughes Price 1 s. 5. The Court of Curiosity being the most Witty Fortune-book and Learnedest Interpretations of Dreams c. ever extant Translated out of French by J. G. Gent. Price 2 s. 6. Vittoria Corombona or the white Devil A Tragedy Acted at the Theatre Royal. Written by J. W. Price 1 s. 7. The Old Troop or Monsieur Raggou A Comedy Acted at the Theatre Royal. Price 1 s. 8. The Memoires and Adventures of Sylvia Moliere Price 2 s. 9. Vlysses's Travels By Mr. Hobbes In English Verse Price 1 s. 10. Calliope's Cabinet opened and reviewed wherein all Gentlemen of what Rank soever may know how to Adorn themselves for Feastings c. By J. Salter Price 8 d. 11. A New Collection of Poems and Songs wrote by the present Wits of the Age upon several Subjects Price 1 s. 6 d. 12. A Discourse of the Dukedom of Modena being the present Dutchess of Yorks Country Price 6 d. 13. Brevis Demonstratio A Discourse proving Christianity by Reason Price 10 d. 14. Catalines Conspiracie A Tragedy Acted aâ— the Theatre Royal. Wrote by Ben. Johnson Price 1 s. 15. The Primitive Institution By L. Addison one of the Kings Chaplains Price 1 s. 6 d. BOOKS Printed this Year 1675. For William Crook 1. Homer's Odysses Translated into English by Tho. Hobbes of Malmsbury with a large Preface concerning the Vertues of an Heroique Poem Price 4 s. 2. The Present State of the Jews more particularly those relating to Barbary wherein is contained an exact Account of their Customs Secular and Religious Discovered by the many years conversation with their R. R. By L. Addison D. D. one of his Majesties Chaplains in Ordinary Price 2 s 6 d. 3. The Jurisdiction and Lawfulness of the Authority of Courts Leet Baron Marshalsea Pypowder and Antient Demesn c. by J. Kitchin To which is now added a Collection of choice Writs by R. A. and T. J. The Fifth Edition Price 6 s. 4. The Third Volume of Mr. Tho. Hobbes his Works containing what is omitted in the two Volumes printed at Amsterdam in Quarto Price 10 d. 5. The Golden Rule made plain and easie by a short Method different from that which is commonly found in Books of Arithmetick By C. H. Price 3 d. 6. De Mirabilibus Pecci carmen Tho. Hobbes Malmsbury Price 6 d. 7. Enterpe Revived being Epigrams on the most Eminent Persons of Honour now living Price 1 s. 8. The Amorous Gallant or Love in Fashion A Comedy in Heroick Verse as it was Acted Price 1 s. THE Mock-Duellist OR The FRENCH VALLET ACT I. SCENE I. Shift Thief Shift ONce more I tell thee