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Cuckolds-Haven, or, An alderman no conjurer a farce acted at the Queen's Theatre in Dorset Garden / by N. Tate.
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Tate, Nahum, 1652-1715.
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one Word Sir Quick Indeed and in very good sober Truth Sir Touch. Indeed and in very good sober Truth Sir behind my back thou wilt swear faster than a French Foot-Boy and talk more Baudy than a Midwife I tell thee Sirrah I am thy natural Lord and Master William Touchstone Goldsmith and Alderman of London an Alderman Sirrah Alderman I will likewise make thee understand that thou art my indented Servant Francis Quick-silver Work upon that now Quick Surely I am your bounden and most faithful Touch. Without Preamble I will know what Diversion you are now a running to Quick Surely one may use his Recreation with his Master's Profit Touch. Servants Recreations are seldom with their Master's Profit --- Work upon that now Quick Surely I was but going to a Funeral Sermon Sir of a dear Friend Sir Crying Touch. Say'st thou so I protest I was to blame for chiding thee dear Francis I ask thy Pardon and am sorry for thy Friend with all my heart But Sirrah seeing is believing shew me your Sermon-Book produce your Shorthand-Book quickly I say Quick Here Sir Touch. Let me see 't Quick Sincerely I shall come too late Sir Touch. Let me see 't I say what is here Sol la me fa sol sol --- what has this to do here With a Stone at the Gate and a handsom young Wench to rub my bald Pate Why thou Pagan Rogue Thou hast more Tricks with thee than an Irish Run-a-way with seven years Improvement in the West-Indies I will see further what Rigging you have about off with that Cloak of Iniquity where are you Quick-silver dodges about him at last Touchstone pulls off his Cloak and discovers Flutes Swords Pumps Racks Dancing Shoes c. girded round him Hey-day hey-day what a Composition is here Thou hast more Trangams about thee than a Hocus Pocus or the Wonderful Fish that came Arm'd against Turk and Pope Quick Work upon that now Touch. Thou shameless Varlet do'st thou deride me too do'st thou laugh at thy lawful Master contrary to thy Indentures I will make thee Sirrah at Noon-day for Pennance to walk in this Equipage from Leaden-Hall to Ludgate Quick I will as soon serve a Prenticeship to every Cuckold betwixt Leaden-Hall and Ludgate by this Light What a Plague Sir I am a Gentleman tho a younger Brother and your Worships Servant Touch. Do'st thou Swear Rake-hell thy Father was an honest Tradesman Quick But my Mother was a Gentlewoman and with your favour Sir I will swear by the Mothers side Is it not for your Worships Advantage that I keep Company I am entertain'd amongst Gallants they call me Cousin Frank right I lend them Money good They spend it very well And when 't is gon must they not strive to get more must not their Land fly and to whom shall not your Worship have the Refusal How could Tradesmen thrive if Gentlemen were not Unthrifts how could Gentlemen be Unthrifts without Supplies for their Debauchery Well the City ought to consider me I am now going to a Gaming-House the Sparks fall to Play I carry light Gold with me Cousin Frank say they some Gold for Silver I change gain by it They lose the Gold and cry Cousin Frank Lend me some Silver by which means Touch. Nay the Rogue has Wit that 's certain the Rogue has Wit I cannot help loving the Dog but Sirrah did I gain my Wealth by Ordinaries no. By exchanging of Gold no. By keeping Gallants Company no. I hired me a little Shop sought low kept no Debt-Book garnish'd my Shelves for want of Plate with good wholsom thrifty Sentences as Touchstone keep thy Shop and thy Shop will keep thee Light Gains make heavy Purses Be merry and wise And when I was Wiv'd having somthing to stick to I had ever the Horn of Security before my Eyes you all know the device of the Horn where the young Fellow slips in at the Butt and comes squeez'd out at the Buckall Yet I grew up to this Dignity that you see here and bear my Brows as high as my Neighbours but thou well look to Accounts your Father's Bond lyes for you Seven hundred art thou run out of Cash Quick I have proper Gentlemens words for 't and well drest shall I deny a Gentleman that calls me Cousin Frank Enter a Page Page Which is Mr. Touchstone's Shop Gold Here Sir What lack you Sir what d' ye buy Sir Touch. Look you there now there 's your Fellow Servant do's he spark it well if he outlast not an hundred such crackling Bavins as thou art Heav'n and Men neglect Industry with me Boy Page My Master Sir Petronell Flash presents his Service to you and intends instantly to visit you Touch. I understand you Boy to Consummate Marriage with my Eldest Daughter my Wive's Dilling whom she longs to call Madam Your Master shall find me most unwillingly ready Boy Ex. Page There 's another Affliction too my Eldest Daughter is as Prodigal as my youngest Servant She must be Ladify'd forfooth take all her Dress from the Court take Quality-Rambles and keep Quality-Hours Well a piece of Land she has her Grandmothers Gift let her Sir Petronell flash out that But as for my Substance she that scorns me as I am a Citizen and Alderman shall never be the better for that nor shall that be the worse for her However Golding come hither Golding no no you Quick-Silver I I Golding Golding my outmost Care is for thee and my only Trust is in thee look to the Shop Mr. Quick-Silver look on the Brodigals Hog-trough in the Hangings within I say Consider them think upon Husks Husks work upon that now Exit Quick Husks in your Wittal's weazon and a Million of Milstones to the Bargain Here 's Authority with a Horse Pox. Gold For shame how you Talk Quick And who shall say me nay I will both Talk and Swear I am a Gentleman and may Swear by my Pedigree Golding thou art yet ---- but I 'll improve thee into a Man and a good Fellow I will shew thee Company with Souls in them Drink thee into good Blood Good store of brisk Claret supplies ev'ry thing And the Man that is Drunk is as great as a King Gold Away with your Ribaldry Play-house Morals Quick I tell thee we will redeem redeem the City's Honour and shew there may be 'Prentices that are no Coxcombs Shall our free Spirits be held in Bonds of Calf-skin and subjected to a formal Beard and Chain Gold What would you have me do Quick Do nothing turn Gentleman and be Idle the Curse of Man is Labour Wilt thou walk here from Sun to Sun between two Pissing Posts or stand with a bare Pate driveling Nose and Arms a-cross under a rotten Pent-house Gold Away you Prodigal Fool. Quick That word again and thou art Immortal Gold Thou Shuttle-Cock Thou Gull of lew'd Companions I see thee already in the Temple Rounds with half a Hat thy Crevat the reversion of a
Licensed August 14. 1685. RO. L'ESTRANGE Cuckolds-Haven OR AN ALDERMAN No Conjurer A FARCE Acted at the QUEEN'S THEATRE in Dorset Garden By N. TATE LONDON Printed for J. H. and are to be sold by Edward Poole next door to the Fleece Tavern in Cornhill 1685. TO THE HONOURABLE COLONEL Edmund Ashton SIR AS you will find the following Scenes drawn from the Stores of that great Master Ben I hope you will think the Contrivance no ill Imitation That they had no better Success on the Stage was for this Reason The principal Part on which the Diversion depended was by Accident disappointed of Mr. Nokes's Performance for whom it was design'd and only proper which caus'd a Retrenchment of whole Scenes in the Action that are in this Copy inserted As it here lies together if the Plot be not too regular for Farce and ought not rather to have been call'd Comedy I dare trust the Reader for the rest Notwithstanding all the Disadvantages in its Appearance on the Stage you were pleased Sir to discover some Beauties through the Cloud However I am not so much concern'd for a Work of this Nature as to impose the Protection of it upon you My Ambition in this Address is to owne my good fortune in your Acquaintance and Advantages from thence as to Nobler Species of Poetry I speak not with relation to any Essays of my own but for improvement of my Skill in the best Latin Poets When Ben Johnson was inform'd that a certain Person had done him Injury he cry'd out with Indignation I made the Ingrateful Man understand Horace Obligations of this kind indeed are unvaluable I presume Sir I could before pretend to a Grammarians or Commentators knowledge but this was understanding like a Dutchman From whom the Author 's more obscure become The Fogs of Holland cloud the Wit of Rome While these the Vehicle of Words essay The subtle Spirit flies unseen away They understood the Words but you the Poet. Your Judgment does not terminate in what is express'd but takes in the whole Scope of Fancy and feels the flame of the Poet while he labour'd with Inspiration In short Sir you make their very Spirit visible and with piercing sight discover those Beauties which their Art threw off to such distance that they were not discern'd by Vulgar Eyes The World must allow me to pay this Acknowledgment It is what I heard own'd while a Stranger to you by a first-rate Judge as well as Poet he that was at once the Horace and Mecaenas of our Age. know Sir you will pardon me if on mention of that Noble Person I stain this Paper with a Tear Multis ille bonis flebilis Occidit Nulli flebilior quam Tibi ------- Of many Obligations that endear his Memory to me the Opportunity of your Acquaintance was not the least while I have heard you discant together on your beloved Authours Time seem'd to me to be revolv'd and I thought my self in the Court of Augustus I think the Nation is duly grateful for what he has transplanted from their Language though sparing of those Favours We likewise know Sir that you have not fate down with the bare knowledge of those ancient Roman Treasures without giving some parts of them the English Stamp And to hoard them in Secresy is injury to your Country It was always thought the Perfection of an Honourable person to be an Accomplisht Courtier Souldier and Scholar All which Capacities are Sir without Complement ascrib'd to You. Nor may we omit that Justice Courtesie and Condescention which in relation to Inferiours compleat the Character of a Gentleman As a just Respect on these Worthy Accounts is rendred to you by all Persons it is by none more sincerely paid than by SIR Your most Humble Servant and Admirer N. TATE PROLOGUE WE own nor to confess it are asham'd fram'd That from tough Ben's Remains this Piece was But if Embellishments of Vanity And Vice are here improv'd to a degree Beyond the Characters that Master drew We must the Ladies thank for that and you So far above what Johnson's Age e'er knew Our Scene 's compact and if it be not witty You must consider Sirs 't is laid i' th' City Where yet we shall present one Sparkish Citt Who Drinks Whores Dresses which I think is Wit Or Mercy on three parts of this good Pit Lewdness and Dress must by the Criticks Pardon Be Wit or ' gad ye ruine Covent-Garden But Sense or Nonsense is to us all one Our Trinculo and Trapp'lin were undone When Lime's more Farcy Monarchy begun Oh! Were this Frantick Nations Woes too few But we must have both Dam and Devil too First with the Old Serpent plagu'd of Associations And since with viler Spawn of Declarations Whose poyson such Distraction cou'd create That Scyth-men listed to Mow down the State But now the Monster has her final Rout The very Dregs of Treason's Tap are out This Triumph then with Just Applause be given To Caesar's Conduct and assisting Heaven Sense now shall flourish Discord be no more For Wit and Peace are Caesar's to restore The Persons Alderman Touchstone intended for Mr. Nokes By Mr. Percivall Golding his Sober Servant Mr. Baker Quick-silver his Debauch'd Servant Mr. Jevon Security a Bawd and Usurer Mr. Lee. Sir Petronell Flash Mr. Williams Captain Seagull Mr. Gillow Mr. Bramble a Lawyer Mr. Hains Mrs. Touchstòne Mrs. Corye Girtred her Daughter an Affected Cittess Married and cozen'd by Sir Petr. Flash Mrs. Percivall Mildred the Sober Daughter Mrs. Twiford Security's Wife Mrs. Price Syndefie Punk to Quicksilver Servants and Sailers Scene LONDON A NEW FARCE CALL'D Cuckolds-Haven ACT I. SCENE I. Touchstone's Shop at the farther End Golding walking short turns before it Touchstone with Accounts in his Hand Touch. UPon Mortgage of his whole Estate remains due to his Lordship 300 l. this comes of Prodigality of his Lordships Stewards towards a Purchace for himself 5000. There 's the fruits of Industry At Interest for Mrs. Procure-well 1200. There 's Industry again Lent Receiv'd Receipts Receipts Disbursements Bonds bonds Judgments c. Well we Marry'd Citizens had need of strong Heads to support what is put upon 'em our greatest Care is to look after them that should take the Care off our Hands I must in and settle these Accounts before As he is going in Quick-silver enters upon him and drives him backward Quick Alack alack Sir sincerely I did not think of your Worship Touch. Thou insolent Varlet What stumble upon the very Face of Authority Do' it thou behold no Terrour in this overture Is this natural Type of Reverence and this Emblem of the Cities Honour but Cyphers with you ha Quick Peradventure Sir Touch. I will not be peradventured Sir Answer me directly What loose Action are you now bound for what Comrades are you to meet who gives the Supper and where 's the Rendezvouz I will have an Account of all these in a Breath in a Sentence in