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A48059
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Sr. Hercules Buffoon, or, The poetical squire a comedy, as it was acted at the Duke's Theatre / written by John Lacy ...
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Lacy, John, d. 1681.
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Wing L147; ESTC R1617
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about and laugh Clerk I had certainly laugh'd in the Judges Face but for consideration of you Sir La. Clerk take heed you be very just Clerk As your own heart ' y faith Bo. How thou wilt get clear of the Judge when he comes to have his Deer out of Whetstones Park I know not Her I have a harder task by half I am to help Aimwell to one of the rich Heiresses I have told him a damn'd Lie La. Like enough prethee what is it Her I told him the Guardian and I were intimate Friends old Acquaintants and Schoolfellows and the Devil take me if I ever saw him in my life yet I am resolv'd to face him down that we are dear Friends and old Acquaintants and that 's as hard a task as ever impudence undertook Bo. Faith so 't is considering the great Spirit of the Guardian Her I 'll do it for all that Sq. Give me thy hand Father I commend thy impudence old La. Bravely resolv'd come I will first treat thee then go with thee and back thee manfully Exeunt FOURTH ACT. SCENE I. Enter Lord Arminger Guardian Mariana Waiters Lo. WAit in the next Room Sel. I am prouder to have the great Lord Arminger under this mean Roof than haughty Princes are of Empire and I bow with such reverence to your person as holy men do to the holy Altar and with the same humility offer my Oblation up receive her as from Heaven for she is fraught with virtue equal with the Angels Lo. Sir I admire you with more than common wonder Guardians usually make price of the innocent Orphans in their charge but you are more than just you are kind and to that degree which Parents have for Children Sel. I shall betray my self with violent fondness such torrents of love flow in me that I think the World too little for her Dower Ma. Indeed my Lord his tender care seems to have more of Father than Guardian in 't in which we hold our selves most highly blessed Sel. My good Lord I leave you to make your Court where doubtless you 'll find your love most worthily and readily received Exit Seldin Lo. Madam your Uncle spoke largly of your Virtues to me but nothing of your Person and now I see the cause for 't is impossible the capacity of Man shou'd reach the character of so much Beauty as I now behold and all the rest must needs submit to crown you Goddess of your admired Sex Ma. My Lord you answer not your character you were rendered to me the onely Man of Honour Truth and Justice and I hear nothing but aâ—ery Complement fine Poetical Flattery fit onely to catch Girls Lo. Madam by my Honour and that 's my dearest treasure I flatter not but speak truth just as my heart conceives it therefore I again declare you are the onely Beauty that ever yet my eye encountered and I find a dotage stealing on me more than common love Ma. Hold my Lord I command you for sure she may command that is so much admired therefore by that precious Gemm your Honour are those sweet words you 've spoken truth Lo. Madam by all the bliss I hope for I have no falshood in me Ma. Then stop and go no further in your love I charge you for I must never be your Wife Lo. How Madam I came prepar'd by your Uncle this day to marry you Ma. O my Lord that day is further off than the unknown uncertain hour of Doom Lo. Madam if there be cause for this your cruelty reveal it and by the Original of all Honour here I swear this Bosom is your Grave to bury all your Secrets Ma. I believe you my Lord with the same Faith I do Religion Lo. Madam you have repriev'd my Life by thinking me worthy of your thoughts though unworthy of your love Ma. O my honoured Lord it is my unworthiness not yours that must for ever keep this cruel distance Lo. What e'er the reason is that cannot be it say you 're contracted unknown to your Uncle say any cruel thing but that Ma. Then I declare the noble character my Uncle gave me of your Lordship sprung in me a true and perfect love which made my desires so violent to see you that since my life till now was more uneasie than a sick mans restless night and yet must never marry Lo. Never was man pleased and startled so at once Infinitely pleased to hear you say you love but strangly startled that you ne'er must marry the thought frights me the Ghosts of murder'd men shake not guilty Slaves as that resolve shakes me I find Man is not fortified to bear the frights of love I beseech you Madam if you have cause for this your resolution give me some ease by imparting it Ma. It is so dreadful for a good man to hear but if your Lordship will ask my Uncles leave to carry me and my Sister abroâ—d you then shall know why you and I must never marry Lo. Your resolution has dispersed my spirits so they are never more to be collected all within me lies confused a mad man's bloud 's in better temper and I am all on fire till I am satisfied Ma. My Lord I am destroyed if you reveal me Lo. You are more cruel in distrusting that than in refusing me Ma. Your pardon and henceforth my trust shall ever rest in you Exeunt SCENE II. Enter Sir Hercules Bowman Aimwell Laton Overwise Aim You have put me off from time to time and I am resolved to be no longer fooled therefore try your Interest you boast of with the Guardian or Her Well Fool doubt not me in the least this is the greatest strait I ever yet was put to Bowman for me to salute and impudently embrace a man of his high spirit and face him down that we are dearland intimate Friends and yet never saw him the Devil take me 't is a damn'd audacious task Bo. However go forward here 's my hand thou shalt not suffer Her Then dear Impudence stand my friend this one push and I 'll own thee for my Patron all my life La. Here comes the Guardian bear up Knight Omnes Your most humble Servant Sir Enter Seldin Sel. Gentlemen I am to crave your pardon my Niecâ—s are not this day to be seen however the freedom of my house I tender you with all the respect imaginable Her Sure Sir Marmaduke you will let your intimate Friend see your Nieces dear Rogue how dost thou do Own me for your Friend and Schoolfellow 't will be thousands in your way This worthy Gentleman dear Friend thou must know Sel. It will concern me more to know you Sir for in my life I never met such confidence Her Why how now Marmaduke has your Guardianship made you proud have you forgot your self Sel. What the Devil means this Fellow Gentlemen who knows this Creature or who brought him hither Aim We all know him and he brought us hither pretending more Interest