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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A67192	The country-wife a comedy acted at the Theatre Royal / written by Mr. Wycherley ...	Wycherley, William, 1640-1716.; Molière, 1622-1673.	1675 (1675)	Wing W3738; ESTC R21398	67,694	107

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

then jealousy succeeds The worst disease that Love and Wenching breeds ACT 2. SCENE 1. Mrs. Margery Pinchwife and Alithea Mr. Pinchwife peeping behind at the door Mrs. Pin. Pray Sister where are the best Fields and Woods to walk in in London Alit A pretty Question why Sister Mulberry Garden and St. James's Park and for close walks the New Exchange Mrs. Pin. Pray Sister tell me why my Husband looks so grum here in Town and keeps me up so close and will not let me go a walking nor let me wear my best Gown yesterday Alith O he 's jealous Sister Mrs. Pin. Jealous what 's that Alith He 's afraid you shou'd love another Man Mrs. Pin. How shou'd he be afraid of my loving another man when he will not let me see any but himself Alith Did he not carry you yesterday to a Play Mrs. Pin. Ay but we sate amongst ugly People he wou'd not let me come near the Gentry who sate under us so that I cou'd not see 'em He told me none but naughty Women sate there whom they tous'd and mous'd but I wou'd have ventur'd for all that Alith But how did you like the Play Mrs. Pin. Indeed I was aweary of the Play but I lik'd hugeously the Actors they are the goodlyest proper'st Men Sister Alith O but you must not like the Actors Sister Mrs. Pin. Ay how shou'd I help it Sister Pray Sister when my Husband comes in will you ask leave for me to go a walking Alith A walking hah ha Lord a Country Gentlewomans leasure is the drudgery of a foot-post and she requires as much airing as her Husbands Horses Aside Enter Mr. Pinchwife to them But here comes your Husband I 'll ask though I 'm sure he 'l not grant it Mrs. Pin. He says he won't let me go abroad for fear of catching the Pox. Alith Fye the small Pox you shou'd say Mrs. Pin. Oh my dear dear Bud welcome home why dost thou look so fropish who has nanger'd thee Mr. Pin. Your a Fool. Mrs. Pinch goes aside cryes Alith Faith so she is for crying for no fault poor tender Creature Mr. Pin. What you wou'd have her as impudent as your self as errant a Jilflirt a gadder a Magpy and to say all a meer notorious Town-Woman Alit Brother you are my only Censurer and the honour of your Family shall sooner suffer in your Wife there than in me though I take the innocent liberty of the Town Mr. Pin. Hark you Mistriss do not talk so before my Wife the innocent liberty of the Town Alith Why pray who boasts of any intrigue with me what Lampoon has made my name notorious what ill Women frequent my Lodgings I keep no Company with any Women of scandalous reputations Mr. Pin. No you keep the Men of scandalous reputations Company Alith Where wou'd you not have me civil answer'em in a Box at the Plays in the drawing room at Whitehal in St. James's Park Mulberry-garden or Mr. Pin. Hold hold do not teach my Wife where the Men are to be found I believe she 's the worse for your Town documents already I bid you keep her in ignorance as I do Mrs. Pin. Indeed be not angry with her Bud she will tell me nothing of the Town though I ask her a thousand times a day Mr. Pin. Then you are very inquisitive to know I find Mrs. Pin. Not I indeed Dear I hate London our Placehouse in the Country is worth a thousand of 't wou'd I were there again Mr. Pin. So you shall I warrant but were you not talking of Plays and Players when I came in you are her encourager in such discourses Mrs. Pin. No indeed Dear she chid me just now for liking the Player Men. Mr. Pin. Nay if she be so innocent as to own to me her likeing them there is no hurt in 't Aside Come my poor Rogue but thou lik'st none better then me Mrs. Pin. Yes indeed but I do the Player Men are finer Folks Mr. Pin. But you love none better then me Mrs. Pin. You are mine own Dear Bud and I know you I hate a Stranger Mr. Pin. Ay my Dear you must love me only and not be like the naughty Town Women who only hate their Husbands and love every Man else love Plays Visits fine Coaches fine Cloaths Fidles Balls Treates and so lead a wicked Town-life Mrs. Pin. Nay if to enjoy all these things be a Town-life London is not so bad a place Dear Mr. Pin. How if you love me you must hate London Ali. The Fool has forbid me discovering to her the pleafures of the Town and he is now setting her a gog upon them himself Mrs. Pin. But Husband do the Town-women love the Player Men too Mr. Pin. Yes I warrant you Mrs. Pin. Ay I warrant you Mr. Pin. Why you do not I hope Mrs. Pin. No no Bud but why have we no Player-men in the Country Mr. Pin. Ha Mrs. Minx ask me no more to go to a Play Mrs. Pin. Nay why Love I did not care for going but when you forbid me you make me as 't were desire it Alith So 't will be in other things I warrant Aside Mrs. Pin. Pray let me go to a Play Dear Mr. Pin. Hold your Peace I wo'not Mrs. Pin. Why Love Mr. Pin. Why I 'll tell you Alith Nay if he tell her she 'l give him more cause to forbid her that place Aside Mrs. Pin. Pray why Dear Mr. Pin. First you like the Actors and the Gallants may like you Mrs. Pin. What a homely Country Girl no Bud no body will like me Mr. Pin. I tell you yes they may Mrs. Pin. No no you jest I won't believe you I will go Mr. Pin. I tell you then that one of the lewdest Fellows in Town who saw you there told me he was in love with you Mrs. Pin. Indeed who who pray who wa st Mr. Pin. I 've gone too far and slipt before I was aware how overjoy'd she is Aside Mrs. Pin. Was it any Hampshire Gallant any of our Neighbours I promise you I am beholding to him Mr. Pin. I promise you you lye for he wou'd but ruin you as he has done hundreds he has no other love for Women but that such as he look upon Women like Basilicks but to destroy 'em Mrs. Pin. Ay but if he loves me why shou'd he ruin me answer me to that methinks he shou'd not I wou'd do him no harm Alith Hah ha ha Mr. Pin. 'T is very well but I 'll keep him from doing you any harm or me either Enter Sparkish and Harcourt But here comes Company get you in get you in Mrs. Pin. But pray Husband is he a pretty Gentleman that loves me Mr. Pin. In baggage in Thrusts her in shuts the door What all the lewd Libertines of the Town brought to my Lodging by this easie Coxcomb S'death I 'll not suffer it Spar. Here Harcourt do you approve my choice Dear little Rogue I told