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A56734
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The morning ramble, or, The town-humours a comedy acted at the Duke's Theatre.
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Payne, Henry Neville, fl. 1672-1710.
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1673
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Wing P892; ESTC R11211
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Fiddles at my heels and drive him back to Town or never let him sleep but in shelter of as many Night-Caps as Morose in the Silent Woman hath Rose I am very serious Sir my Lady begs you to be gone before you wake her Brother Mer. Come Rose confess confess I know thou art acquainted with a touch of thy Mistresses secrets Tell me is there no other seat but of being sent into the Countrey Honour Muchland appears Hon. Oh yes no doubt on 't the Mistress is highly concern'd for fear of losing the hopes of so sober a Husband Mer. Marry and I thought so Hon. One that if a Body has occasion for at night may be heard of either in a Tavern French-house Constables hands or the Counter Mer. Well and is not that better then to be troubl'd with a formal fopp of bus'ness who lodges his wife in the Countrey to prescribe for the Agne then scratches his empty Noddle cryes I protest I must post to London I shall be undone else there stayes a whole Term a doing nothing or what is as bad that which comes at last to nothing Townl. And thinks he performs his Duty very well to his Wife if he gives her a bout every post with a long formal Letter of Excuses for not coming Mer. VVhich must beget another on her full of Complaints for his absence Town Then when he returns in the Spirit of Beef and Ale Will it may beget a Male Child Mer. Which proves like the Ingredients 't is Compounded of a fit Companion for Clowns and of no use but to have his Name inserted in long Indentures Tripartite for Intaling specially that Earth that is near as sensible as it's Clod-pate owner Town The drawing of this deed too is a new excuse for coming to London and seeing as the learned have it his Uncle Mer. So that in fine your man of bus'ness loves to be thought to love bus'ness Courts bus'ness lyes with bus'ness and begets nothing but business or things as dull as business and Lady will you slight a Man that loves Wit Mirth and Burgundy for this Animal nonrationale Hon. I pray Sir where 's the necessity for marrying either do you think there is none but such as cannot stay at home for their bus'ness or will not for their Wine and Wenches Town Lady have a care that is my Province Wenches if you speak irreverently of Wenches I am bound to stand up for them and shall soon be provok't to say that if my friend here and some few others like him could but relish the pleasure of Wenching you and all the ill-bred honest Women in the Town might sleep quietly or waking gnaw your Sheets without the help of a Song and Fiddle at your windows VVenching quoth a. Hon. Well Mr. Merry I see you for your Wine and your Friend for Wenches are so well met 't would be pity to part you and I am resolv'd not to be so cruel therefore assuring you I am not in hast for a Husband but can stay till a soberer grow if there be none yet ripe I leave you to your further Adventures Exiturus Honour and Rose Mer. Faith no parting so Strike up and sing the Chorus Chor. Ah what Charms have those Eyes c. Hon. Pray hold my Brothers coming Mer. I am glad of it since I cannot reclaim the Sister from doting on Sobriety I 'le see what can be done on the Brother go on Sings Then spight of my self c. Enter Mr. Muchland above Much. Ah Mr. Merry you 're upon the Ramble I see what time of Night is it Mer. About two and fair Weather who would lye spending this pleasant time in a lazy Bed and then rise to fry all day in the Sun Much. Why did not Nature intend the Night for Rest seeming to draw Curtains about us and the Day for Action displaying the great producer of it Light Mer. This Philosophy may serve well enough for one not in Love but 'faith my Body is too combustible to endure two fires at once Love and the Sun and therefore I drink at Night to slacken than within and sleep in the Day to avoid that without Much. I see you would seem a Philosopher too to justifie the drinking as caus'd by your Love but my Sister will scarce believe you in that Hon. Yes Brother but I will for I do believe 't is Love Love of drinking I mean that causes the fire within he complains of and so he drinks on to quench it Much. Well Gentlemen the street may prove scandalous Rose go let 'em in Exit Rose Hon. Scandalous if you mean to them 't is impossible for they 're as well known in the street as the Bell-man and as duly expected by the Neighbour-hood to their Lodgings punctually to come home at break of day Mer. You say right Madam the Smiths Shoo-makers Pewterers and Sadlers in our street have no measure to call up their Prentices by but the noise of my Fiddles playing me to my Lodging Town He tells you true Madam for they heard once he was going to remove and in great fright call'd a Vestry the next Lord's Day where it was propos'd to make a Collection amongst them to pay for his Lodging on Condition he would stay Mer. Yes faith and a solemn present of saffron Cakes and Sack given to Townlove to move me to it Enter Rose below Rose Come Gallants you may enter but Mr. Muchland is not of my mind to suffer it Mer. Prethee why Rose I know thou art not so cruel but thou could'st find in thy heart sometimes to let in a Friend later than this Rose Sir it must be with greater expectation of a sober demeanour when they come in then I could hope from you now Mer. Townlove Rose is a Person I much rely on therefore prethee mannage the controversie begun with her whilst I go and excuse my self to her Mistress Ex. all but Rose and Townlove Rose No Sir Arguments are in vain to me I 'm so possest that Love and Wine are inconsistent together that I think I could dy rather then recant my Opinion Town And Rose it may be in doing so would'st be as solid a Martyr as many of thy Sex who have as they say witnessed with their Death truths they no wayes understood nor indeed lay half so obvious to their Reason Rose Well Sir will you please to come in the noise that these Fiddles keep will allure more of you wandring Knights to enter except the Door be shut Town No Rose thou and I will stand and guard the passage to this Inchanted Castle where vil'd Matrimonical Love is pursu'd in these dayes of clearer light Rose Why then Sir you dare not enter into any House it seems that is defil'd with Honesty if those be your principles you and I are not proper Sentinels for one place being Souldiers of two opposite parties Town Why Rose are you for no Love that is not bound by the spell of