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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A54801	St. Stephens-Green, or, The generous lovers a comedy, as it is acted at The Theatre-Royal, in Dublin / written by Will. Philips ...	Philips, William, d. 1734.	1700 (1700)	Wing P2119; ESTC R4782	48,811	90

St. Stephen's Green OR THE Generous LOVERS A COMEDY As it is Acted at The Theatre-Royal IN DUBLIN Written by WILL. PHILIPS Esq DUBLIN Printed by John Brocas in School-House-Lane And are to be Sold by the Booksellers 1700 TO THE Right Honourable THE Earl of INCHIQUIN My Lord THis Play has a double Reason for seeking Shelter under Your Lordship I Writ it and for our Irish Stage and You are the chief Friend which either has But I shou'd be Cautious in Declaring what 't is probable the World may Condemn in you since in the Humour the present Age is for a Man to own that he thinks Plays even lawful 't is almost enough to bring his Principles of Morality and Religion into Question But My Lord the Firmness of yours is so well known that I shall have no Reason to for bear saying you have an Esteem for Plays and I may with Safety to your Reputation Applaud you for it since I am Confident the greatest Zealot wou'd slacken his Fury against the Stage and join with you in Supporting it did he know how earnestly you Wish it Reform'd from the Corruption of Manners to the Encouraging Virtue and Exposing Vice and with what Decency Modesty and Good Breeding you wou'd have it Regulated You may remember you Caution'd me to observe these Things when I first acquainted you that I had a Design to Write this Comedy and I have attempted to Obey you I wish Your Lordship had given me farther Instructions then this wou'd have appear'd more Perfect and Correct to the World and an Offering more Worthy you As it is I present it to you with Courage because I know the Errors your Judgment discerns your Goodness will Excuse and what you cannot Excuse you will at least Forgive I only Wish there may be something in it which may prevent your Blushing while you Protect it and shall very readily own the Faults the Criticks find in it I have not yet heard them but without doubt there are many and therefore I think my self the more obliged to those who have been so particularly kind to this Play They have sufficiently evidenced how Inclinable they are to Encourage Wit and Poetry by being so Favourable and so Generous to my weak Attempts on both who have so little of the one and so unskill'd in the other I shou'd be extreamly pleas'd if my Success wou'd move any other who has a happier Genius to divert this Town with some Performance of this kind But it is my Satisfaction and Pride that tho' he shou'd Write better he cannot meet with more Encouragement than I have done And since I own my Weakness and yet boast of Success you may be assur'd that as I think my self Answerable for the former so I know the latter is owing to your Lordship another Proof of your accustomed Goodness and a fresh Obligation to me But this is a Subject I must not pursue for tho' the acknowledgment of Obligations is but a small Return yet I know you th● 〈…〉 and therefore tho' Silence is a Pain to the Grateful yet I choose to be uneasy to my self rather than offensive to your Modesty which I know will not Pardon my Publishing what you will not allow me even to mention when we are together Give me leave only My Lord to assure you that I have a just Sense of your Favours and that tho' I had ne're receiv'd one yet I shou'd ever have been My Lord Your Lordship 's Most Faithful and most Humble Servant Will. Philips PROLOGUE HOw hard 's the Fate which Poetry attends VVhen ev'ry Man to be its Judge Pretends Not so in other Arts Painters best tell VVhich Colour Shade or Posture does excel Doctor 's a Right to Kill or Save obtain And Lawyers only do the Law Explain But ev'ry Fool fancies induigent Heav'n And equal Share of VVit to him has giv'n And talks of Time Place Action and the Plot VVords like a Parrot he by rote has got Hither such come to Censure not to Hear And whisper dull Remarks in 's Neighbour's Ear. Chat the whole Play then Judgment give at Guess And damn the Poet for the Actor's dress Strut in the Pit Survey the Gallery In hopes to be lur'd up by some kind She. Humours still opposite to ours they have Laugh when we weep and when we laugh look grave Our Author hopes none such are here to Day For they 'll ne're relish this Dull Sober Play VVhere there 's not one Immodest VVord to move In the Box Blushes or a Laugh above But for their Comfort tho the Scene be here The Characters of Vice he takes elsewhere If any to themselves Reflections take They are to Blame who Applications make EPILOGUE Spoke by Lady Volant WHo to a Monarch humbly sues for Grace Shou'd not Consult the Merits of his Case So much as those who offer his Address 'T is by their Int'rest he must hope success Our Author thus who can no Merit Plead But the harsh Censures he deserve does dread Orders that I for Mercy Intercede He Judges right but in his Choice he 's out As he his Merit I my Int'rest doubt And well I may since 't is by different Arts I must please Men and gain the Ladies Hearts The Beaus I wou'd Oblige but that you know Is more than one poor VVoman has Pow'r to do Besides they 're all so Mercenary grown They 'll grant no Favour unless I grant one Their Answer is when we a Boon demand Meet me at Chappellizard or the Strand And that 's a Bribe I think too dear to give To let this Play their dreadful Rage survive And from the Fair what Mercy can be had I fear they 'll hate me for but seeming Bad. In hopes to please now we have done the Play I 'll throw the Nausceous Mask of Vice away And strive those Paths of Virtue to pursue So strictly kept so eminent in you Dramatis Personae Freelove A Gentleman of England Bellmine A Gentleman of Ireland Friends Sir Francis Feiguyouth Old and Amorous VVormwood Snarling and Ill-natur'd Vainly A Pert Conceited Fop. Trickwell Servant to Freelove Timothy Tellpenny Steward to Lady Volant Aemilia Niece to Sir Francis Feignyouth Marina His Daughter Lady Volant Affected and Mercinary St. Stephen's Green OR The Generous Lovers ACT I. SCENE St. Stephen's-Green Enter Aemilia and Marina Mar. WELL well Aemilia You may pretend what you please But I am sure You go to Church thus constantly only to Pray for an Easterly Wind. Aemi. Truly Marina if my Love has made me Devout yours has made you very Lazy for ever since you saw Bellmine you are grown as fond of your Bed as a young Poet is of his first Works Mar. And is not that a properer place to think of one's Lover than the Church I am as much teaz'd with your Devotion as a Rake is with Dunns or as a Mask in the Play-House is with that Rake Aemi. Love that sweetens all Tempers

spit thee with thy own Sword Vain Why thou hast as much Modesty as good Nature VVorm Death I have neither Vain Who can deal thus honestly by me and cannot hear your self commended with the Title of my Friend Worm The Title of thy Friend a Commendation why this is past all Sufferance Look ye Sir since I cannot perswade you to understand me by Words I 'll try to make you understand me by my Sword Come Draw Sir Drawing Vain Draw Sir VVorm Ay draw Sir so I say no Repetition Vain What a Plague will you Fight a Man because he calls you his Friend VVorm Friend again that word has wing'd thy Destiny as the Poets have it I see the Rogue dare not Fight I may push this matter home Vain But Good Mr. VVormwood VVorm Death Sir Draw I say I shall make you Dance to a New Tune Vain Oh Lard Sir is that all how dull was I that I did not understand you I protest dear Sir you had reason to take it ill that I shou'd be so tedious in Gratifying you I learn'd a New Minuet yesterday and tho' the place be not so proper yet to shew how earnest I am to oblige you La La La La. Sings and Dances VVorm Nay then I think I may venture to put up my Sword and beat Time with my Feet on your Buttocks thus and thus Enter Freelove and Bellmine Free What Quarrelling Gentlemen hold hold Vain Oh no Sir by no means you do not know Mr. Wormwood he 's a facetious Person and had a Mind we shou'd practice a New Dance Bel. An Antick I suppose Vain Right Sir 't is even so if we can but get a Sett you shall see what Sport we 'll make at the next Ball. Free That I hope will be difficult VVorm Gentlemen a word I wou'd not have you seen in that little thing 's Company you see he has no Sense nor Courage and it may make the Wise and Brave reflect on you Free We thank you for your Caution Sir Vain Mr. Bellmine you know I always had a value for you your Friend too seems a fine Gentleman and I suppose is of your temper wou'd be acceptable to the Ladies but nothing can be so destructive to that as being seen with that old snarling ill bred Fellow hang him despise him leave him Bell. Indeed to leave him to himself is the surest way to Plague him for ill Nature is its own Greatest Torment Vain You are most Ingenious Dear Mr. Bellmine you and I will be wondrous great Call your Friend away and come with me By your absence for some time you may be out of Acquaintance Come I 'll shew you every Body I 'll make you acquainted with the whole Town this Afternoon I have access every where You know the Ladies were always Fond of me Bell. I desire not to intermeddle between such Ladies and you therefore pray Excuse me Vain Extreamly obliging kind to the last Degree to deny your self so great a Pleasure for fear of Rivaling me But I will not suffer that so much Goodness should prejudice you Come we are hard by Sir Francis Feignyouth's I 'll carry you thither Bell. Are you acquainted there Vain Goodness that you shou'd not know that most intimately Sir Truth is they wou'd be much fonder of me but I 'am often troubled with the Spleen exceedingly troubled with the Spleen Mr. Bellmine and they poor Creatures do so Sympathize with me that I never go there but I give it to them Bell. Faith thou art enough to give any one the Spleen Vain Oh Good Sir be not concern'd I wou'd not for the world infect you 't is too much to be so nearly concern'd for me Besides there is no Danger of having it in your Ingenious Company and that is the reason I go there so often to divert it for Sir Francis's Daughter Mrs. Marina has a world of Wit and her Cousin Aemilia is nothing short of her they have both vast Sense vast Sense they have indeed and you know you may depend on my Judgment Then they Write so Charmingly Bell. Have you any of their Letters Vain Oh Goodness Sir what a Question is there Bell. A Question why dost thou dare to say it Vain Not a word you say but gives me a proof how infinitly you value me No 't is base to boast of a Ladies Favour that is the truth on 't I take your Caution extream kindly Mr. Bellmine Bell. Death and Hell dare not to think it not to hope it nay not to wish it Vain Oh Enough enough a Word to the Wise I will be more discreet for the future Bell. Discreet Insolent Wretch Death thou deservest to be beaten Free Bellmine so loud Dost thou not know that next to the Disgrace of being Beaten is that of Beating those we know will bear it Bell. For thee even to name the Woman I admire is almost enough to lessen my Good Opinion of her did I not know you both Free Away mind him not Vain Od's my Life is one of them his Mistress I thought there was something extraordinary it makes him so Cholerick he is Jealous and takes me for his Rival nothing less cou'd make him angry with me But we that are admir'd by the Women must expect to be envied by the Men. Pox take 'em I cou'd bear their Envy but I don't rellish this Quarrelling and Striking and Hurting and Fighting and Wounding and Dying and the Devil and all Where is the sense of it I am sure every Body is so fond of me that if they did but know how little I care for such things there is not one wou'd offer it to me not one I 'm confident Least these Strangers shou'd mistake my humour I 'll march off and there is a rare Opportunity a Hackney Coach coming this way with two Masks I 'll pretend they call'd me Heigh you Rascal Coach-man don't you hear the Ladies cry hold Dear Gentlemen you see the Reason of my leaving you there are some Ladies in the Coach call me therefore I hope you will pardon the abrupt Departure of your most obedient faithful Servant Exit VVorm There 's a Dog now there 's a Rogue Why wou'd you prevent my Drubbing him I wou'd have kick't him into Jelly Free If you had persever'd you had quickly made his feeling as dull as his understanding VVorm I attack'd his most sensible part Free And yet I have known some as Contemptible as he boast of their success in Intreagues nay and boast with truth too tho' one shou'd imagine that Vice alone shou'd destroy their future Success since it is as imprudent in Women to put it in such Mens power to boast as it is in the Men base to be Guilty of it Bell. There is none so Despicable but have some Quality to recommend them to some Body Nay it oft happens that a Man is admir'd by some for that very Quality for which others despise him And Vainly has one