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The poor scholar a comedy / vvritten by Robert Nevile ...
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Neville, Robert, 1640 or 1-1694.
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And these are the Sirrups are they Demosth Sirrah What must you be riding upon a Flesh Saddle Are these fit courses for a Scholar Aphobos sets down the wench and she slips away Well get you to your Chamber Tomorrow we 'le take a course with you Exit Aphob Eug. sen But d'y ' hear Maiden can you love this man Morphe Yes forzooth can I and none body else Eng. sen aside T is a pretty Peat to do the Feat she heats my marrow methinks I could be young again that I might enjoy her Demosth You 'd best marry 'um quickly Mr. President I believe they 're impatient of delay Eug. sen Well Gentlemen accompany me to our Chappel to th'marrying these people Exeunt omnes ACT. 5. SCENE 4. Aphobos Anaiskuntia Aphob THese women are alwaies wilful she would not put on the clothes I prepared for her but t is no matter we were married before they took us they can't spoil our sport now my name too is cut out o' th' Colledge butteries and I have now no title to the honour of mounting a Barrel but I wonder my Anaiskuntia states thus long sure she is drest in her mans apparel by this time he 's silent and looks about the Stage a good while What no appearance yet 't is strange O now she 's come Enter Anaiskuntia in a Scholars habit Anaisk I can't endure to wear mens clothes thus methinks t is ugly to see a woman wear the Breeches Aphob I wonder whether Eugeneia and Eutrapelus are married yet or no they should be by this time or else the Parson made not so quick dispatch with 'um as he did with us nay now I conclude they 're married for here they come Enter Eutrapelus with Eugeneia in a Scholars habit How like you marriage joys Eutrapelus Eutrap O they 're an Antepast of Heaven Mahomet I see was no fool for making his paradice a place for the fruition of Genial pleasures He knew what it was to be truly happy But don 't our wives look like fine smooth-fac'd Lads in this man-like habit I wonder Jupiter comes not from Heaven to make one of 'um his Cup-bearer as he did Ganymed come le ts sing a little They all sing Come let us sing the time invites our joys are now compleated All oppositions are blasted and defeated Come let us kiss my spirit 's high and fain would be in action Now we will laugh and those defis in Love who breed a Faction We will not fear an ill-look'd Dean nor mirth-disturbing Proctor We 'l now carouze and sing and bouze before the gravest Doctor ACT. 5. SCENE 5. Whilest they are singing enter Eugenes senior Demosthenes Eugenes juniors Father Eug. sen WHat are you all mad you make such a disturbance in the Colledge as for you two Eutrapelus and Aphobos we know you for notorious Rogues but these two pretty young lads I believe were seduc't by you pointing to the women Were you not Sweet-hearts Eugeneia Yes Sir we were led hither by ' um Eug. sen Well go your ways for this time and come no more into this leud company Exeunt Eugeneia Anaiskuntia As for your part Aphobos you were catcht lately with a wench and one who by report was light enough either for you to bear her or her to bear you she 's in plain termes a common whore and not fit company for a Student Aphob Sir either give her a better Character or I 'le give her one written in your warmest blood she is my lawful wife and he that blemishes her reputation with the smallest scandal I 'le rip him up alive and sacrifice him to her honour which ever was untainted and immaculate Eutrap The other also was my wife although invested in a Scholastick habit Eug. Sen. If you are married you 've forfeited your places Aphob It is confest we have nor do we now desire to keep 'um longer our names are out o' th Butteries and our persons out of your dominions Eug. Jun. Fath. Here 's mad doings but I believe my sons too fast for ever getting out to marry Eug. Sen. But tell me true were those your wives Eutrapel They were Sir and here they are again in their own habit and attire Enter Eugeneia and Anaiskuntia in loose morning gowns Eug. Sen. I wish you joy then O my Neece he turns to Eugeneia are you married too You 'r well provided for in having marri'd Eutrapelus Eug. Jun. Fath. Well 't was happy that my son was kept close prisoner although my daughter has broke loose he I believe is far from thoughts of marriage whilest he speaks enter Eug. Jun. leading Morphe Oh! what a sad object do my eyes behold I 'de rather have been depriv'd o' th' light then e're have seen this sight How now sir How broke you loose and got that wench ACT. 5. SCENE 6. Eug. Jun. I Got her Sir by my Unckles means Eug. Sen. How Sirrah by my means I never saw her in my life before and would sooner have seen you both hang'd together What D' you make me your Pimp Eug. Jun. Nay Sir we 're hang'd together so fast that there 's no cutting the rope now Marriage can't be dissolved until death Eug. Jun. Fath. What wicked wretch was 't marri'd you Eug. Jun. My Unckle Sir Eug. Sen. T is a notorious lye I never saw this woman before Morph Yes Sir but you have I was the Mary Allcock you married Eug. Jun. And I the Philip Lovelass whom you askt whether I could love this Lass or no and then married us Eug. Jun. Fath. Well Brother I see now we 're outwitted and that young people may see more with their eyes in their heads then old men with their eyes hanging at their girdle We 'le go in now and seeing they are married prepare a feast for'um I have a living at my disposal that I 'le bequeath to Aphobos because he 's poor And as for you Eugenes because you have contriv'd your Plot so well I declare you my sole Heir I 'le not vex my self in vain To vex when mischiefs are quite past and gone Is the next way to bring more mischiefs on Finis Actus quinti. Epilogue to the Spectators Eug. Jun. BEfore you all my Father does declare That he intends me for his lawful Heir My Poverty henceforth I 'le not bewail For now I may Top and Top gallant sail In th' Ocean of his wealth not will I fear The Shipwrack of my Fortunes whil'st I stear My course so you like th' Laplanders will sell A Gale of your Applause my Sails to swell A Catalogues oâ— Books sold by Henry Marsh at the Princes Arms in Chancery-lane lately Published THe English Lovers or a Girle worth Gold both parts so often acted with general applause now newly formed into a Romance by the accurate Pen of I. D. Gent. A Compendious Chronicle of the Kingdom of Portugal from Alphonso the first King to Alphonso the sixth now reigning Those excellent Fancies entituled Don Juan Lamberto or a Comical History of our late Times first and second Part by Montelion Knight of the Oracle ☜ A new English Grammer for Forreigners to learn English with a Grammer for the Spanish or Castilian Tongue with special Remarks on the Portugues Dialect for the service of her Majesty whom God preserve by James Howel Esq The Life and Death of that Reverend Divine and excellent Historian Dr. Thomas Fuller lately deceased Studii Legalis Ratio or Directions for the study of the Law under these heads the Qualifications for the Nature Means Method Time and place of the Study by W. Philips of Grayes Inn c. price 1â— Books Published this Term. RUmp or an exact Collection of the choisest Songs and Poems from 1639. to 1661. Relating to the late Times by the most eminent Wits A new discovery of the French Disease and Running of the Reins their Causes Signs with plain and easie directions of perfect curing the same by R. Bunworth the second Edition corrected with large Additionals Fragmenta Aurliâ—a or Court State Jests in noble Drollery True and Real ascertained to the Times Places and Persons by T. S. Gent. PLAYS Thracian Wonder Gurtons Nedle Catalogue of Plays Loves Mistress Plutus Queen of Aragon Obstinate Lady Maides Revenge Lacivious Queen Noble Ingratitude Enchanted Lover Amorous Fantasie Poor Scholar FINIS
world of her own heart sounded each creek survey'd each corner but that still there may remain much Terra Incognita to her self besides concupiscences too much restrain'd will swell the more had Danae not been kept b'a brazen door sh ' had dy'd a harmless Virgin not a whore Vperephan Madam I hope you 'le not be guilty of foul perjury what you have vow'd perform ne're be confin'd to one mans humours Be still as free as your unlimited thoughts Eug. Jun. Out you lascivious quean because you 're not your self content to be confined to one man would you disswade her from it would you have your mistress like your self as common as the Sea as Air and no less light would you have her let all Night-birds build their nests in her thick Bush and make her self a Warehouse for all sorts of Commodities a Publican to receive all Tribute she can get you 'd have as many men it may be to gratify I can't say satisfy your lust as the great Turk has women in 's Seraglio you cannot feed upon one sort of flesh you must be pamper'd with variety Vperephan You 'r mistaken Sir in me I 'm not so weary of my life or so well prepar'd to die as to desire yet to be press't to death by any man I 'le first be hanged Eug. Jun. Hang y'u Jade but then you 'l choose your gallows The door is open and invites you to go out your absence at this time will be to us more acceptable then your presence for here comes merry Eutrapelus You 'l spoil his sport if you stay here Vperephan I 'le make no longer stay then but yet I am resolv'd to make my Mistriss Penelope-like unravel all by night Eutrapelus does by day I 'le make men know let 'um do what they can A woman can persist to hate a man Exit ACT. 2. SCENE 2. Manent Eugenes J. Eugeneia Enter Eutrapelus Eug. Jun YOu 'r welcome to me my Eutrapelus your company makes me happy Eutrap Thanks Noble Eugenes but yet I should be swell'd with bigger and more large conceptions of my worth if I were thought so by the fair Eugeneia could I but merit one smile of hers I 'de wracke my braines and cause each ventricle thereof to be in labour for a jest and they should first conceive and then bring forth all their conceits Eugeneia Sir your merits sound so loud in each expression of my brothers that they require that portion of respect which otherwise I should deny you Eutrapel Madam I should be bless't for ever if their sound should prove harmonious and make good musick in your ears or like the pleasant layes of Orpheus attract all things and sexes after 'um and more peculiarly your sacred self Eugeneia Sir now you are a Note too high you 'l overstrain your voice in canting forth your own deserts this is the way to raise a discord between you and your best friends Eutrap T' has been observ'd that discord makes the sweetest Harmony but yet because I may not seem a Schismatick in love I 'me for a perfect union wee 'le if you please concorporate wee 'le make up a complete Hermaphrodite and be inseparably glu'd together and when we 're met we'el stick so close that nothing but omnipotence it self shall ever Divorce us from our nuptial pleasures Eugeneia Rome was not built Sir in a day and things of so great consequence as marriage are not to be resolv'd on in a minute this ordinance like the laws o' th' Medes and Persians is unchangeable what is once done heer and concluded on can never be unravell'd or undone Eutrap Fear not undoing Madam for we'el be always doing when we 're marri'd I 'le always be in Action and if this suite prevaile with you I le then clap action upon you after action I le first arrest you in your bed and n'ere be nonsuited in Cupids Court till my endeavours for an heir obtain a happy issue pray give your verdict Madam in this case Eugeneia My verdict sir is this that you are non-suited in the court of my affections your plea can't any more be heard you 've lost your suite your Rights and titles to make me your Tenement are forfeited Eutrap Then Madam I 'le renew my suite and make your Brother my advocate in this cause Eugeneia Hee 'l take Bribes Sir and therefore like a common Barreter he shall obtain no audience I le therefore now adjourn Great Cupids Court and put a period to your amorous sport Exit Eutrap Don't I look simply Eugenes and seem in as deplorable a state as a young heir beset with Serjeants When the large sails of 's Debts are ready to sink and over-whelm the small Bark of his poor estate Marsy as after Apollo flead him ne're look't so simply if he did I le be flead I le undertake a whole Nights lodging and hard Jobb-Journey-workes of darkness would not have cool'd my courage as this repulse has done sh ' has made my eyes as hollow as her heart Eug. Jun. I took thee not Eutrapelus for so notorious a Coward as to be daunted with the first denial Take thou but Courage and be bold my Boy And all thy grief shall terminate in joy Coward ne're won fair Lady stand this shock And thou shalt have her in a surer Lock Eutrap I wish I had her in so sure a Lock as to give her a fall and then I 'de make her belly rise before her Eug. Jun. Take heed that like Antaeus she grow not stronger by her fall and getting up before you throw you off for ever But I must crave your absence for a while each minute I expect my tutour Eutrap I le be gone then I faith least if he finde us here together he should read us a Juniper or Crabtree lecture Exit Eu. ACT. 2. SCENE 3. Eugenes Junior Demosthenes Eug. J. ODs ' so here he comes he perceives Demosthenes entering Well now I must be thunder-proof his brows are clouded and presage a storm pray God't be but an April shower as soon ended as begun or if he thunder God send that like the air he be the better clear'd from Anger 's fumes and fiery exhalations for otherwise hee 'l blast me with his breath but now I think on 't he shall find me reading He pulls a book out of his pocket and reads softly Demosth I 'm glad to see you thus studiously imploy'd your actions in some measure contradict that flying rumour which proclaim'd you remiss and negligent you do well to defeat black-mouth'd obloquy and vindicate your reputation from those aspersions with which it has been blended and defac't I pray continue it in its proper lustre and suffer 't not to be ecclips'd by any spots of a debaucht and vitious conversation Eug. Jun. aside Pray' God he does not change his tune presently this is too sweet to last long Demosth Though other men may cherish in their bosoms sinister thoughts of all your