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The souldiers fortune a comedy, acted by Their Royal Highnesses servants at the Duke's Theatre / written by Thomas Otway.
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Otway, Thomas, 1652-1685.; Molière, 1622-1673. Ecole des maris.
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1681
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Wing O562; ESTC R10495
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THE Souldiers Fortune A COMEDY Acted by their Royal Highnesses SERVANTS AT THE Duke's Theatre Written by THOMAS OTWAY Quem recitas meus est O Fidentine libellus Sed male cum recitas incipit esse tuus LONDON Printed for R. Bentley and M. Magnes at the Post-House in Russel-Street in Covent-Garden 1681. THE DEDICATION Mr. Bentley I Have often during this Plays being in the Press been importun'd for a Preface which you I suppose would have speak something in Vindication of the Comedy Now to please you Mr. Bentley I will as briefly as I can speak my mind upon that occasion which you may be pleas'd to accept of both as a Dedication to your self and next as a Preface to the Book And I am not a little proud that it has happened into my thoughts to be the first who in these latter years has made an Epistle Dedicatory to his Stationer It is a Complement as reasonable as it is Just. For Mr. Bentley you pay honestly for the Copy and an Epistle to you is a sort of an Acquittance and may be probably welcome when to a Person of higher Rank and Order it looks like an Obligation for Praises which he knows he does not deserve and therefore is very unwilling to part with ready Money for As to the Vindication of this Comedy between Friends and Acquaintance I believe it is possible that as much may be said in it's behalf as heretofore has been for a great many others But of all the Apish qualities about me I have not that of being fond of my own Issue nay I must confess my self a very unnatural Parent for when it is once brought into the World E'en let the Brat shift for it self I say The Objections made against the merit of this poor Play I must confess are very grievous First Says a Lady that shall be nameless because the World may think civilly of her Fogh oh Sherru 't is so filthy so bawdy no modest Woman ought to be seen at it Let me dye it has made me sick When the World lies Mr. Bentley if that very Lady has not easily digested a much ranker morsel in a little Ale-house towards Paddington and never made a Face at it But your true Jilt is a Creature that can extract Bawdy out of the chastest sence as easily as a Spider can Poison out of a Rose They know true Bawdy let it be never so much conceal'd as perfectly as Falstaff did the true Prince by instinct They will separate the true Metal from the Allay let us temper it as well as we can some Women are the Touch-stones of filthiness Though I have heard a Lady that has more modesty than any of those the Criticks and I am sure more wit say She wonder'd at the impudence of any of her Sex that would pretend to understand the thing call'd Bawdy So Mr. Bentley for ought I perceive my Play may be innocent yet and the Lady mistaken in pretending to the knowledge of a Mystery above heâ— though to speak honestly she has had besides her Wit a liberal Education and 〈◊〉 we may credit the World has not buried her Talent neither This is Mr. Bentley all I can say in behalf of my Play Wherefore I throw it into Your Arms make the best of it you can praise it to your Customers Sell ten thousand of them if possible and then you will compleat the wishes of Your Friend and Servant THO. OTWAY Dramatis Personae CApt. Beaugard Mr. Betterton Courtine Mr. Smith Sir Davy Dunce Mr. Nokes Sir Iolly Iumble Mr. Leigh Fourbin A Servant to Beaugard Mr. Ievon Bloody-Bones Mr. Richards Vermin Servant to Sir Davy A Boy Lady Dunce Mrs. Barry Sylvia Mrs. Price Maid A Constable and Watch. SCENE London PROLOGUE by the Lord Falkland FOrsaken Dames with less concern reflect On their inconstant Hero's cold neglects Than we provok'd by this Vngrateful Age Bear the hard Fate of our abandon'd Stage With grief we see you ravisht from our Arms And Curse the Feeble Vertue of our Charms Curse your false hearts for none so false as they And curse the Eyes that stole those hearts away Remember Faithless Friends there was a time But oh the sad remembrance of our Prime When to our Arms with eager Ioys ye flew And we believ'd your treach'rous Hearts as true As e're was Nymph of ours to one of you But a more pow'rful Saint enjoys ye now Fraught with sweet sins and absolutions too To her are all your pious Vows addrest She 's both your Loves and your Religion's Test The fairest Prelate of her time and best We own her more deserving far then we A just excuse for your inconstancy Yet 't was unkindly done to leave us so First to betray with Love and then undo A horrid Crime y' are all addicted to Too soon alas your Appetites are cloy'd And Phillis rules no more when once enjoy'd But all rash Oaths of Love and constancy With the too short forgotten Pleasures dye Whilst she poor Soul rob'd of her dearest ease Still drudges on with vain desire to please And restless follows you from place to place For Tributes due to her Autumnal Face Deserted thus by such ungrateful men How can we hope you 'l e're return agen Here 's no new Charm to tempt ye as before Wit now 's our only Treasure left in store And that 's a Coyn will pass with you no more You who such dreadful Bullies would appear True Bullyes quiet when there 's danger near Shew your great Souls in damning Poets here A Catalogue of some Plays Printed for R. Bently and M. Magnes 〈◊〉 Russel-Street near Covent-Garden ALL the Tragdies and Comedies of Francis Beâ—mont and Iohn Fleâ—â—er in one Volume containing fifty one Plays Tartuss or the French Puritan Forc'd Marriage or the Jealous Bride English Monsieur All Mistaken or the mad Couple Generous Enemies Andromacha A Tragedy Calisto or the Masque at Court Country-Wit A Comedie Destruction of Ierusalem 2 parts Miseries of Civil War Henry 6. with the Murder of the Duke of Glocester Nero a Tragedie Gloriana a Tragedie Sophonisba or Hanibals overthrow Alexander the Great or the Rival Queens Mithridates King of Pontus Caesar Borgia Son of Pope Alexander 6. Oedipus King of Thebes Theodosius or the Force of Love The Plain Dealer The Town-Fop or Sir Timothy Taudry Abdellazar or the Moors Reveng Madam Fickle or the Witty False one The Fond Husband or the Plotting Sisters The Vertuous Wife or good luck at last The Fool turn'd Critick a Comedy Squire Oldsap or the Night Adventurers The Mistaken Husband a Comedy Mr. Limberham or the Kind Keeper Notes and Observations on the Empress of Morocco The Orphan or Unhappy Marriage The Souldiers Fortune Sertorius A Tragedy Novels Printed this Year 1680. The Amours of the King of Tamaran The Amours of the French King and Madam â—aniler The Amours of Madam and the Count de Guich The Pilgrim A Satyrical Novel on the horrible