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A34580
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The mistaken beauty, or, The lyar a comedy, acted by Their Majesties servants at the Royal Theatre.; Menteur. English
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Corneille, Pierre, 1606-1684.
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1685
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Wing C6314; ESTC R18809
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you Dor. As to my dear Friends now I 'll tell you all of five Barges expresly I had prepar'd I dispos'd four Consorts of Musick in four of them Violins in the first Lutes and Voyces in the second Flutes in the third and Hoboy's in the last Who playing by turns so Ravished our Ears It seem'd the very Harmony of the Spheres The first and most capacious of all Serv'd us for our Banqueting House or Hall Contrived so with interlaced Boughs For freshness sake it seem'd a Summer House At each corner were Festons of Jessamine With other verdurs Orange-flowers and Granadine Thither I led the Lady I adore Attended on by some five Beauties more and presently in all pompeous manner the Collation was served in it were long to tell you the several Services Number of the Dishes and order of every Mess suffices it In this delicious Room there were six services twelve Dishes at every one While the Air the Water and adjoyning shore Eccho'd the Musick which the Barges bore Risen from Table suddenly did appear Fire-works o' th Bank-side darted in the Air And Thousand Thousands flying now upright And now across did make a day of Night In which Deluge of flames you would admire To see th' Element of water turn'd to fire This past and done we danced the rest o' th' Night Passing the time with infinite delight Till Day when I waited on the Ladies home And so we finish'd our Collation Al. I must needs say Sir you have an admirable faculty in recounting wonders And Paris as great as 't is has seldome seen a Banquet like 〈◊〉 this Dor. Alas I was surpriz'd and had only an hour or two's warning to prepare it else that had been far more splendious and magnificent Phi. The order was rare and exquisit and the expence must needs have been Excessive and Immense Dor. A slight Toy not worth the speaking off Al. Well fare ye well sir we shall meet another time at more liesure Dor. I am your Servan◠sir and I beseech you count me so Al. I even die with jelousie Philist Phi. Faith and y 'ave small reason for the particulars of this Collation agree but ill with the particulars of the Page Al. The hour and place agree at least the rest is nothing Scena 6. Dorant Clyton Cly. Now Sir may I freely speak to you without offence Dor. Thou mayest and thou mayest choose too whether thou wilt or no but look before company you be less saucy hereafter Cly. Is it your Custome to Reve thus when you talk Dor. How Reve Cly. Nay Sir I speak with respect unto you in any other but your self I should call it plain lying Dor. Fool thou hast no wit Cly. Faith Sir for that little I have you 'd make me lose it to hear you talk a this manner of Wars and Banquets and consorts of Musick and I know not what I like you you fight without any danger yet and make Feasts without any Cost but why I wonder shou'd you fain y 'ad been in Town so long Dor. Why but the more to endear my affection Cly. And what had the Wars to do with that Dor. Simple t wou'd have been a fine Complement wou'd it not to say Ladies I am latly come from the Vniversity and if y 'ave any need of the Laws or of the Rubriques I know the whole Codex and Authenticks too the Old and New digest the infortiat Baldus Jason Accursius and Aleiat this brave discourse now would render one very considerable in Ladies company and mollifie the Hearts of the most inexorable wou'd it not and a Paragraph-man wou'd make a fine Gallant for Ladies no the Title of the Valiant is that introduces us into their favour strait and makes them admire us too they love Souldiers and love to hear them talk of Angles Lines Fortifications strange names of Men Cities and Nations which the less they understand more it amazes 'em All the Art is in setting a good Face upon 't Lying handsomly and Swearing with a good Grace Cly. But when they know all this is but a Lye Dor. When once I 've gain'd access by 't what care I and for any other misfortune if any importunatly come to trouble me 't is but saying we speak by Intelligence this 't is to make Love a la Mode now Cly. These are Mysteries too high for me I understand them not but touching your Feast you 'd prove an excellent maker of Romances without doubt and never Vrganda nor Melusin with all their enchantments could furnish a Kitchen half so soon nor half so well as you have done I perceive these lofty Fictions are natural unto you Dor. I profess I take delight when your great Talkers and Tellers of Wonders think to amaze me with Stories they Tell to make them presently more wonder at Stories I Tell 'em again thou canst not imagine the pleasure I take To turn their own Wonders home Vnto themselves and strike these Talkers dumb Cly. I doubt not but that ye take great pleasure in 't but wo'nt this engage you in quarrels sometime or other Dor. If 't do I must disengage my self as well as I can again but this idle discourse has retarded me from seeking the Lady Come Clyton follow me and I 'll teach thee more Art how to live than e're thou knew'st before Finis Actus Primi Actus 2. Scena 1. Geronte Clarina Isabella Cla. I doubt not of his worth Sir nor needs there farther commendation it is sufficient he is your Son but yet I shou'd appear too greedy and avidous of marriage however worthy he were to take a Husband on credit whom I ne'r had seen before On the other side to admit his Visits and Courtship in quality of a Suiter suppose the marriage went not on it wou'd but expose me to affronts and derision Wherefore I desire to see him first and see him so As whether the marriage go on or no It may be no prejudice to my Fame and me Ger. It is but just and reasonable and you declare your self Clarina as discreet as fair In your demand I 'le go fetch Dorant then And within this hour return with him agen and take occasion to make a stand just under your window that you may throughly survey him mark but his Person Port and Presence and you shall see though he came but yesterday a Scholar from the University few Courtiers have better Air and Meen than he but of this your self be judge after common Fame for me his Father I may be partial in his Commendations for the desire I have To see him wedded being my only Son And wish him Married unto you alone Cla. You much honour me Sir in making so worthy a choice for so unworthy a person and I in confidence of your commendations have a longing desire to see him Scena 2. Clarina Isabella Isa So without engageing your self you are resolved to see him then Cla. I am Isabella but