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A36653
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The mistaken husband a comedie, as it is acted by His Majesties servants at the Theatre-Royall / by a person of quality.
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Dryden, John, 1631-1700.
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1675
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Wing D2318; ESTC R18617
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Grant me your Love once more and I will yet restore your Honour You shall appear as vertuous and innocent as you are fair and charming Mrs. Man How dar'st thou move so impudent a Suit Or hope the least success in 't Can I think Of all Mankind thou canst restore my Honour Thou Thief thou Murtherer thou destroyer of it Haz. I grant I am a Thief and who so proper To give Wealth as he who robb'd you of it But I have not destroy'd it 't is it safe And does not that deserve some recompence Love me and let me get a new possession From knowledge of that good your Error gave me And you shall see what Mrs. M. Never name it no more no prayers shall ever win me No Sophistry seduce or Tortures force me To one dishonest act now known dishonest Haz. What contrary effects enjoyment causes In you a loathing and in me a love The sence of such a blessing once possest Makes me long after what before I priz'd not And sure that needs must be the truest passion Which from possession grows for then we know Why 't is and what we love all love before Is but a guess of an uncertain good Which often when enjoy'd we find not so Mrs. Man Why am I forc'd to tell you that I love you I do and blush to say it but my guilt Shall reach no farther than my selfe expect No fruit from my Confession no new yielding Yet love me still for that I may permit you Think of no other woman for my sake And I 'le forgive you what is past and sometimes More then I should remember you Haz. And is this all that I must ever hope Mrs. Manley This is too much Have pitty on me and demand no more Leave me some Love for him who should have all And if you have so much of honour in you Invent some means to piece my shatter'd Fame Haz. Madam I will not shame your Charity You have forgiven me and I 'le deserve it I 'le give you from my self though I can ne're Forget you have been mine You have left in me An hatred to all woman kind besides And more undone me in this short visionary joy Of once possessing then I e're could you Mrs. Man Then Farewel Farewel the mutual ruine of each other Farwel a dream of Heaven how am I tost Betwixt my duty and my strong desires Dash't like a ship upon an unseen Rook And when my care can hardly get my off Yet I am ready to repeat my crime And scarce forbear to strike a second time Exeunt severaâ—â—y Enter Isbel Haz. How now what News from Tripoly Isb. O Lord Sir 't is no jesting matter my Mistress is in the strangest taking she fomes as if she had the falling sickness Curses like a Carman stopt going up Ludgate-Hill and has whetted the point of her Steel bodkin as if she had a plot on us she has askt twice or thrice for a Knife Haz. Never fear her I warrant you she that will ask for a weapon is not desperate get you gone in to her and twattle her out of the sullens if you can if not I 'le not long be absent Isb. goes out To him Underwit Vnderw I have done the business the Justice was as stately as a drunken Constable at midnight till his Clark whisperâ—d him in the Ear what I had brought him and told him of your promise of a Turky Pye at Easter then the weight of that made him lean to my party and now he has committed him to Newgate Haz. Thomas Thom. within Sir Hazard away to the Jaylour grease him in the Fist desire him to be the new Prisoners Senâ—pâ—ter and bestow Cuffs on him Vnderwit a Word We must break up house-keeping presently and away for this Woman 's plaguy peevish and will discover all go abroad quickly wee 'l to Sea to Night though I am monstrous loth to leave Her Vnderw 'T is impossible for I spi'd one of the Sailours in a Strong-Water Shop who tells me another Ship fell fowl of ourâ— and has broke her Stern and Galleries Haz. Then we are lost Vnderw No not so I 'le help you out so that we may scape gainers though not so great ones as we aimed to be I thought on my expedient in my return from the Justices and least my memory might fail me writ it down There 't is gives him a Paper you know Manly's credulous enough to believe a formal story And while you prepare the woman if I work not his dull clay brain to any thing I am no Master Potter Haz. I like the design let us about it presently and with the Morning-Tide down to the Ship They go out SCEN. VI. The Street Snipp and three Watchmen Snip Neighbours I am a Searcher by my Place and a Constable by my Office you are my Trusty boys that Watch my Candle and take a care that I do not sleep in the dark I am not ignorant of your abilities for every night I 'm on the Watch you overcome eighteen penny-worth of my Ale apiece besides what Thieves allow that they may steal by us and our extortions from wandring Wastcoateers with all which you are yet able to reel home in the mornings which shews you have not only able Legs and those I have seen you use very nimbly when you have been assaulted by drunken Gentlemen but strong Brains wherefore Neighbours I ask your advice concerning this Warrant 1 Pray Mr. Constable whose Warrant is it Snip pulls out a Warrant Snip By ' Lady that 's a hard question for a Justice of Peace with the help of his Clark made it my Gossip Turnup paid for it and she delivered it to me 1 I but I mean Mr. Constable from what Justice came it Snip Why it came from Justice Shipwrack a very able man I know not what rent he sits at but that he paid a good fine for his place it cost him a brace of hundreds to be put into Commission but to the business my Gossip that gave it me told me it was a Warrant but we Magistrates must not trust too much to Information I cannot read it Neighbour pray do you 2 Truly 't is a very pretty thing how evenly 't is cut 3 Hold up t'other end Neighbour 2 Why will you teach me to read 3 No truly I will not teach you to do that I cannot do my self but I know you hold it as if you were about to shew tricks with the heels upwards Well this is from the purpose how do you like the Warrant 2 Very handsomely indeed Mr. Constable these dainty fair black stroaks look very prettily upon the white Paper 3 Lord To see what some men can do How many scratches go to the making of a Warrant Snip Well but what are the Contents 2 Nay there I leave you I should have learn'd to write and read too had not all my time been taken up in running of Errands 3 Give it my