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A62423 The life of Mother Shipton a new comedy as it was acted nineteen dayes together with great applause / written by T.T. T. T. (Thomas Thomson), fl. 1668. 1670 (1670) Wing T1009; ESTC R2655 32,589 62

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The Life of Mother Shipton A NEW Comedy As it was Acted Nineteen dayes together with great Applause Folia Ampla Sybillae Virg. Written by T. T. LONDON Printed by and for Peter Lillicrap and are to be sold by T. Passenger the three Bibles on London Bridge 1610. The Actors Names Pluto The King of Hell Radamon A cheif Spirit Four other Devils The Ab. of Beverly Hairbrain A wild Gallant Swagger His Companion A Captain Mr. Shiftwell A Pander Mr. Moneylack His Companion Sr. Oliver VVhorehound An old Leacher David His man Roger His wifes man Sir Ol. VVhorehounds wife going by the name of Lovefree Mr. Scrape a Userer Mother Shipton Abigail her Maid Maria Shiftwels sister Priscilla a Whore Prue a Bawd Shiftwels wife And two whores The Scenes The City of York OR Nasebrough Grove in Yorkshire The Prologue PRologues are grown so plenty yet so dear Our authour choos'd to have no prologue here His is an invitation to a feast He hopes your stomacks will not ill digest Yet be not over curious since he has spent As much as on his Credit could be lent He 's not a Poet yet upon his blessing Has charg'd the Cooks be careful in the dressing Expect no choice of dainties of the prime As at the Temple at a reading time Or that our young Cooks are experienc'd so They can please every pallat this we know They may in time then in the mean while Grace their endeavours with a courteous smile To th' Author and the Actors too prove free Spare not for claps and first begin with me Exeunt The Life of Mother Shipton Act the First Scene the First Shipton sitting by a Rivers side and Radamon a Divel a part Ship MIserable Shipton in what a poor condition has it pleased the powers to place thee sure all the Eyes of Happiness did look a Squint at my Nativity and all the Destinies combin'd to wrap me up in endless poverty Di. This is excellent her low condition does lay the foundation for my siege I 'l listen to what follows Ship How pleasant and thrice happy is the fortune of other Mortalls how bravely do they live and injoy themselves and their estates How like petty dieties are they seated in their pallaces and to such poor Cottage bred Creatures as my self extend their generous Hospitality how nobly do they pass over their lives and with odours and perfumes enter their earthly graves whose fame is still surviving by their Princely Pedigree why was not this my lot poor miserable Shipton Di. Better better yet she is ambitious and I am half confident she is my own Ship What pleasant life have I forlorn desolation What estate or subsistance The Alms of the Parish What Grave but a Ditch And for my pedigree can only boast of poverty I was wretched by my Parents indigency and by their death in my Minority thrice thrice more Miserable Am I not flesh and blood Has not Nature bestowed on me the like perfections each Mortal now can boast off Why am I so low then when others are so high Why do I court the ground when others in their glorious pinacles grasp the sky Well hence forth will I scorn their Alms and gifts of Charity Directly or indirectly I will find a way To make me rich in Pride and Money too but stay pauses Di. Do do mount higher in ambition yet and then Thou 'lt fall so low thou ne're shall rise again Ship I am too presumptuous and do offend these powers we are bound in the strictest obligations to obey No be content in time thou wilt see Heaven will give thee more felicity Di. Ha! This startles me does her ambition thaw I 'l to her e're she too much repents Fair Maid nay startle not pardon me that I have been a gentle auditor to your sorry tale yet think of me as I seem to be a Gentleman well descended and not of so mean a spirit to divulge the least Syllable of what I have heard but be as secret as the silent Air. Ship Sir your Carriage and discourse confirm you a Gentleman and since you have over heard what I never intended to declare to any My hope is in your promise You will be Privy Di. I 'l be thy bosome Cabinet and since at first sight I see thou art meritorious 'T is in my power and I am willing to bring thee to advancement Nay such honour as shall touch the height of those to whom thou hast been subservient and spurn at those that hitherto have slighted thee Ship Sir you promise fair Di. I 'l perform fairer Therefore to morrow morn at sun rising under the broad Beech-tree in Naes-borough Grove fail not to meet me Ship Upon my Life I will not Di. Then thou shalt see I 'l find a means to Work thy content and thereby Transform thy sorrow to felicity Ship I thank you sir Di. Till then fair Maid farewell This will be good news to the King of Hell Exit Radamon Ship This promise makes me proud perform it thou art noble The Parish Alms gifts and Cottages I 'l scorn And no more walk in places so forlorn To this Event ye powers grant success The Sun must usher in my Happiness Exit Scene the Second Enter Shiftwell and Moneylack Mo. 'T Is a mad life thou leadst Shift A merry life the only life I am like a man finding a Table furnished to his hand as mine is still to me prayers for the sounder I thank him he has maintained my house this six years not only keeps my wife but me and all my family I am at his Table he puts me to nothing no rent nor Church duties no not so much as the scavenger the happiest state that ever man was born to I walk out in a morning come to breakfast find excellent cheer a good fire in winter look in my coal house about Midsomer eve five or six chaldrone new laid up look in my back yard I shall find a pile of fagots that over look the Church steeple I say nothing to all this but smile and gently pin the door again when my wife lyes Inn as even now she 's on the point of grunting a Lady lies not like her she has her Embossings Embroiderings Spanglings and I know not what her Sugar by whole loaves her wine by Rundlets I see these things but like a haypy man I pay for none at all yet fooles think●t mine I have the name and in his Gold I shine This charge the Knight has whilst I without any fear Lye soft sleep hard drink wine and eat good chear And then for want of my wife have I a legion of Mistresses Mo. But prithee when doest exspect Sir Oliver Shift Why to morrow so his last letter said Mo. So then we may hope for a recruite Shift Hope we will command it he must be liberal to me but mum here comes David Enter David How now David any newes for me from Sir Oliver Da.