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A67192
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The country-wife a comedy acted at the Theatre Royal / written by Mr. Wycherley ...
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Wycherley, William, 1640-1716.; Molière, 1622-1673.
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1675
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Wing W3738; ESTC R21398
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none might fall upon us Women by your conversation but indeed Sir as perfectly perfectly the same Man as before your going into France Sir as perfectly perfectly Sir Hor. As perfectly perfectly Madam nay I scorn you shou'd take my word I desire to be try'd only Madam Lad. Well that 's spoken again like a Man of honour all Men of honour desire to come to the test But indeed generally you Men report such things of your selves one does not know how or whom to believe and it is come to that pass we dare not take your words no more than your Taylors without some staid Servant of yours be bound with you but I have so strong a faith in your honour dear dear noble Sir that I 'd forfeit mine for yours at any time dear Sir Hor. No Madam you shou'd not need to forfeit it for me I have given you security already to save you harmless my late reputation being so well known in the World Madam Lady But if upon any future falling out or upon a suspition of my taking the trust out of your hands to employ some other you your self shou'd betray your trust dear Sir I mean if you 'l give me leave to speak obscenely you might tell dear Sir Hor. If I did no body wou'd believe me the reputation of impotency is as hardly recover'd again in the World as that of cowardise dear Madam Lad. Nay then as one may say you may do your worst dear dear Sir Sr. Jas. Come is your Ladyship reconciled to him yet have you agreed on matters for I must be gone to Whitehal Lad. Why indeed Sir Jaspar Master Horner is a thousand thousand times a better Man than I thought him Cosen Squeamish Sister Dainty I can name him now truly not long ago you know I thought his very name obscenity and I wou'd as soon have lain with him as have nam'd him Sr. Jas. Very likely poor Madam Dain I believe it Squeam No doubt on 't Sr. Jas. Well well that your Ladyship is as virtuous as any she I know and him all the Town knows heh he he therefore now you like him get you gone to your business together go go to your business I say pleasure whilst I go to my pleasure business Lad. Come than dear Gallant Hor. Come away my dearest Mistriss Sr. Jas. So so why 't is as I 'd have it Exit Sr. Jaspar Hor. And as I 'd have it Lad. Who for his business from his Wife will run Takes the best care to have her bus'ness done Exeunt omnes ACT 3. SCENE 1. Alithea and Mrs. Pinchwife Alith Sister what ailes you you are grown melancholy Mrs. Pin. Wou'd it not make any one melancholy to see you go every day fluttering about abroad whil'st I must stay at home like a poor lonely sullen Bird in a cage Alit Ay Sister but you came young and just from the nest to your cage so that I thought you lik'd it and cou'd be as chearful in 't as others that took their flight themselves early and are hopping abroad in the open Air. Mrs. Pin. Nay I confess I was quiet enough till my Husband told me what pure lives the London Ladies live abroad with their dancing meetings and junketings and drest every day in their best gowns and I warrant you play at nine Pins every day of the week so they do Enter Mr. Pinchwife Mr. Pin. Come what 's here to do you are putting the Town pleasures in her head and setting her a longing Alit Yes after Nine-pins you suffer none to give her those longings you mean but your self Mr. Pin. I tell her of the vanities of the Town like a Confessor Alith A Confessor just such a Confessor as he that by forbidding a silly Oastler to grease the Horses teeth taught him to do 't Mr. Pin. Come Mistriss Flippant good Precepts are lost when bad Examples are still before us the liberty you take abroad makes her hanker after it and out of humour at home poor Wretch sho desired not to come to London I wou'd bring her Alith Very well Mr. Pin. She has been this week in Town and never desired till this afternoon to go abroad Alith Was she not at a Play yesterday Mr. Pin. Yes but she ne'er ask'd me I was my self the cause of her going Alith Then if she ask you again you are the cause of her asking and not my example Mr. Pin. Well to morrow night I shall be rid of you and the next day before 't is light she and I 'll be rid of the Town and my dreadful apprehensions Come be not melancholly for thou sha't go into the Country after to morrow Dearest Alith Great comfort Mrs. Pin. Pish what d' ye tell me of the Country for Mr. Pin. How 's this what pish at the Country Mrs. Pin. Let me alone I am not well Mr. Pin. O if that be all what ailes my dearest Mrs. Pin. Truly I don't know but I have not been well since you told me there was a Gallant at the Play in love with me Mr. Pin. Ha Alith That 's by my example too Mr. Pin. Nay if you are not well but are so concern'd because a lew'd Fellow chanc'd to lye and say he lik'd you you 'l make me sick too Mrs. Pin. Of what sickness Mr. Pin. O of that which is worse than the Plague Jealousy Mrs. Pin. Pish you jear I 'm sure there 's no such disease in our Receipt-book at home Mr. Pin. No thou never met'st with it poor Innocent well if thou Cuckold me 't will be my own fault for Cuckolds and Bastards are generally makers of their own fortune Aside Mrs. Pin. Well but pray Bud let 's go to a Play to night Mr. Pin. 'T is just done she comes from it but why are you so eager to see a Play Mrs. Pin. Faith Dear not that I care one pin for their talk there but I like to look upon the Player-men and wou'd see if I cou'd the Gallant you say loves me that 's all dear Bud. Mr. Pin. Is that all dear Bud Alith This proceeds from my example Mrs. Pin. But if the Play be done let 's go abroad however dear Bud. Mr. Pin. Come have a little patience and thou shalt go into the Country on Friday Mrs. Pin. Therefore I wou'd see first some sights to tell my Neighbours of Nay I will go abroad that 's once Alith I 'm the cause of this desire too Mr. Pin. But now I think on 't who was the cause of Horners coming to my Lodging to day that was you Alith No you because you wou'd not let him see your handsome Wife out of your Lodging Mrs Pin. Why O Lord did the Gentleman come hither to see me indeed Mr. Pin. No no You are not cause of that damn'd question too Mistriss Alithea Well she 's in the right of it he is in love with my Wife and comes after her 't is so but I 'll nip his love