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A67202
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The plain-dealer a comedy, as it is acted at the Theatre Royal / written by Mr. Wycherley.
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Wycherley, William, 1640-1716.
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1677
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Wing W3749; ESTC R10532
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warrant you Madam Wid. O where where Come you Villain along with me and shew me where Exeunt Widow Jerry Oldfox Manent Manly Freeman Man Thou hast taken the right way to get a Widow by making her great Boy Rebel for when nothing will make a Widow marry she 'll do 't to cross her Children But canst thou in earnest marry this Harpy this Volume of shrivel'd blur'd Parchments and Law this Attornies Desk Free Ay ay I 'll marry and live honestly that is give my Creditors not her due Benevolence pay my Debts Man Thy Creditors you see are not so barbarous as to put thee in Prison and wilt thou commit thy self to a noisom Dungeon for thy life which is the only satisfaction thou canst give thy Creditors by this match Free Why is not she rich Man Ay but he that marries a Widow for her Money will find himself as much mistaken as the Widow that marries a young Fellow for due Benevolence as you call it Free Why d' ye think I sha'nt deserve Wages I 'll drudge faithfully Man I tell thee again he that is the Slave in the Mine has the least propriety in the Ore You may dig and dig but if thou wou'dst have her Money rather get to be her Trustee than her Husband for a true Widow will make over her Estate to any Body and cheat her self rather than be cheated by her Children or a second Husband Enter to them Jerry running in a fright Ierr. O Law I 'm undone I 'm undone my Mother will kill me You said you 'd stand by one Free So I will my brave Squire I warrant thee Ierr. Ay but I dare not stay till she comes for she 's as furious now she has lost her Writings as a Bitch when she has lost her Puppies Man The comparison's handsom Ierr. O she 's here Enter Widow Blackacre and Oldfox Free To the Sailor Take him Iack and make haste with him to your Master's Lodging and be sure you keep him up till I come Exit Jerry and Sailor Wid. O my dear Writings Where 's this Heathen Rogue my Minor Free Gone to drown or hang himself Wid. No I know him too well he 'll ne'r be Felo de se that way but he may go and choose a Guardian of his own head and so be Felo de ses beins for he has not yet chosen one Free Say you so And he sha'nt want one Aside Wid. But now I think on 't 't is you Sir have put this Cheat upon me for there is a saying Take hold of a Maid by her Smock and a Widow by her Writings and they cannot get from you But I 'll play fast and loose with you yet if there be Law and my Minor and Writings are not forth-coming I 'll bring my Action of Detinue or Trover But first I 'll try to find out this Guardianless graceless Villain Will you jog Major Man If you have lost your Evidence I hope your Causes cannot go on and I may be gone Wid. O no stay but a making Water while as one may say and I 'll be with you again Ex. Widow and Oldfox Manent Manly Freeman Free Well sure I am the first Man that ever began a Love Intrigue in Westminster-hall Man No sure for the Love to a Widow generally begins here And as the Widow's Cause goes against the Heir or Executors the Jointure Rivals commence their Suit to the Widow Free Well but how pray have you past your time here since I was forc'd to leave you alone You have had a great deal of patience Man Is this a place to be alone or have patience in But I have had patience indeed for I have drawn upon me since I came but three Quarrels and two Law-Suits Free Nay faith you are too curst to be let loose in the World you shou'd be ty'd up again in your Sea-kennel call'd a Ship But how cou'd you quarrel here Man How cou'd I refrain A Lawyer talk'd peremptorily and saucily to me and as good as gave me the Lye Free They do it so often to one another at the Bar that they make no Bones on 't elsewhere Man However I gave him a Cuff on the Ear whereupon he jogs two Men whose Backs were turn'd to us for they were reading at a Booksellers to Witness I struck him sitting the Courts which office they so readily promis'd that I call'd 'em Rascals and Knights of the Post one of 'em presently calls two other absent Witnesses who were coming towards us at a distance whil'st the other with a Whisper desires to know my name that he might have satisfaction by way of Challenge as t'other by way of Writ but if it were not rather to direct his Brother 's Writ than his own Challenge there you see is one of my Quarrels and two of my Law-Suits Free So and the other two Man For advising a Poet to leave off Writing and turn Lawyer because he is dull and impudent and sayes or writes nothing now but by Precedent Free And the third Quarrel Man For giving more sincere Advice to a handsom well-drest young Fellow who ask'd it too not to marry a Wench that he lov'd and I had lay'n with Free Nay if you will be giving your sincere advice to Lovers and Poets you will not fail of Quarrels Man Or if I stay in this place for I see more Quarrels crouding upon me let 's be gone and avoid ' em Enter Novel at a distance coming towards them A Plague on him that Sneer is ominous to us he is coming upon us and we shall not be rid of him Nov. Dear Bully don't look so grum upon me you told me just now you had forgiven me a little harmless Raillery upon wooden legs last night Man Yes yes pray be gone I am talking of business Nov. Can't I hear it I love thee and will be faithful and alwayes Man Impertinent 'T is Business that concerns Freeman only Nov. Well I love Freeman too and wou'd not divulge his secret pr'ythee speak pr'ythee I must Man Pr'ythee let me be rid of thee I must be rid of thee Nov. Faith thou canst hardly I love thee so Come I must know the business Man So I have it now Aside Why if you needs will know it he has a quarrel and his Adversary bids him bring two Friends with him now I am one and we are thinking who we shall have for a third Several crossing the Stage Nov. A Pox there goes a Fellow owes me an Hundred pound and goes out of Town to morrow I 'll speak with him and come to you preesently Exit Novel Man No but you wo' not Free You are dextrously rid of him Enter Oldfox Man To what purpose since here comes another as impertinent I know by his grin he is bound hither Old Your Servant worthy noble Captain Well I have left the Widow because she carry'd me from your company for faith Captain I must needs tell thee thou