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The bragadocio, or, The bawd turn'd Puritan a new comedy / by a person of quality.
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Person of quality.
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1691
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Wing B4198; ESTC R28530
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THE Bragadocio OR THE Bawd turn'd Puritan A NEW COMEDY By a Person of Quality Quantum mutata ab illâ Religionis Velamen omnia scelera tegit Licensed J. F. LONDON Printed for Richard Baldwin near the Oxford-Arms in Warwick-Lane 1691. Dramatis Personae Bragadocio or Bravado A Triumphing Coward but a great Pretender to Courage and proud to be thought a Debauchee Sir Popular Jealous A Seditious Magistrate that Patronises the People only to serve his own ends os ' em Shuffle Naturally of good Principles but forc't to Countenance the Faction through Necessity Roman A Gentleman of a low Fortune but very Honourable Sir Credulous Trinket One that knows nothing of the World inclin'd to Melancholy and always Freikish and Superstitious Flush Of good Parts but a rambling hot-headed Blade and rails against his University through Discontent Toper Flush's Companion but a meer Sot Jeffry Sir Credulous's Servant Gullman An old Bawd that deserts her Vocation and sets up for a Fortune Marry'd to Sir Popular Juliana Carolietta Neices to Sir Popular Amazonia Toper's Wife a Virago that Tyrannises over her Husband only to serve her self of Opportunities to Cuckold him Faith Gullman's Woman a Disciplin'd Baggage A Jeweller a Quack a Milliner a Sollicitor a Pimp a Carrier a Coffee-Man Bullies Serjeants Tradesmen and Attendants SCENE London ADVERTISEMENTS Books lately Printed and Sold by Tho. Salusbury at the Sign of the Temple near Temple-Barr in Fleet-street THe History of the Late Great Revolution in England and Scotland with the Causes and Means by which it was Accomplished Together with a Particular Account of the Extraordinary Occurrences which happened thereupon As likewise the Settlement of both the Kingdoms under their Most Serene Majesties King William and Queen Mary Price 5 s. The Safety of France to Monsieur the Dauphin Or the Secret History of the French King Proving to his Son that there is no other way to secure France from approaching Ruine but by Deposing his Father for a Tyrant and Destroyer of his People The Art of Brewing Beer Ale and other sorts of Liquors so as to render them more healthful to the Body and agreeable to Nature and to keep them longer from souring with less Trouble and Charge than generally practised which will be a means to prevent those torturing Distempers of the Stone Gravel Gout and Dropsie A Collection of many Wonderful Prophesies relating to the English Nation Plainly Foretelling the late Great Revolution and Happy Settlement of this Kingdom his present Majesties Successes in Ireland and particularly his Victory at the Boyne and the Action at Sea betwixt both Fleets with other very Remarkable Things not yet come to pass Miscellany Poems viz. 1. Remarks on the Death of King Charles the II. 2. On the Succession of King James the II. 3. Upon Faith 4. Upon Patience V. Upon Ambition VI. To the University of Oxford VII The Soul to a Good Conscience VIII The Soul to a Bad Conscience The Declaration and Manifesto of the Protestants of the Vallies of Piedmont called the Vaudois to all Christian Princes and States of the Reasons of their taking up Arms just now against the Duke of Savoy And why they have put themselves under the Protection of William King of Great Britain and of the Evangelick Cantons of Switzerland ACT I. SCENE Shuffle ' s Lodging Enter Flush and Shuffle Shuf BUT do'e resolve say you never to visit the University again Flush Not till Idleness and Hypocrisie be as much out o' fashion as Learning I 'll sooner herd with Savages in a Desart where hungry Nature 's the sole Tutoress Shuf This is just such a quarrel as a Presbyter has against Episcopacy I am confident some Preferment there wou'd reconcile you Flush Prythee don't mistake me I never had the vanity to think I deserv'd it but tho' I had engrossed all the Morals that ever the learned Antients taught they wou'd not ha' been proof against Exceptions Shuf No! Flush No o' my Conscience I have known a worthy Fellow that has been learned as the Sybils but modest religiously observant as the Vestals Still and reserved as the Night yet cheerful as the Morning temperate and strict as an Anchorite and complying as unpractis'd Youth Shuf Sure none cou'd object against so fair a Character Flush Yes a tedious Blockhead scare capable of an Ordinary's Office at the Reading of a Neck-Verse shall cavil against his Schollarship then comes a second spitting pimpl'd Sot and shall first hyccup in his Face then tell him he 's a Company-keeper when at the same time the dizzie Ape can scarce faulter out his unjust Exception thus all of 'em after a successive discovery of Ignorance and ill Principles shall prefer a desertless Dunce to an accomplish't Candidate Shuf Prithee what kind of Complexion'd People do your Sages approve on as best qualifi'd for their preferment Flush Such easie suff'ring Sots as have liv'd in due observance of their Insolent Grandure and Ridiculous Stateliness that have no sense to discover the want on 't in them and will suffer themselves to be solemnly cheated and never take notice on 't Enter Sir Credulous Sir Cred. Noble Gentlemen I am your Creature Flush It must be an affair of grand concern that brings you hither Sir Cred. Sir Cred. Without Ceremony Gentlemen I have no other business at present than to invite you to the chase of a crippl'd Worm hunted by a couple of lame Snails Shuf Wee 'll attend your noble diversion Exit Sir Cred. Shuf Well but don't let his impertinence divert your discourse pray continue it and acquaint me with the order of their Discipline Flush Order ha ha you 'll find no more there than in Darius's Army against Alexander Arts and Sciences are promiscuous with Tricks and Debaucheries Shuf Ay! Flush 'T is an imperfect Emblem of the Chaos where Bodies of strange form and figure were hudl'd up together in a disagreeing concord Shuf An Universal Medly indeed Flush You shall have a serious old Homilist making his unfashionable Chamber-love to a tractable Laundress a young breeding Heir penning Madrigals on his Bed-maker or Phillising the Skull 's Daughter and a leading Tutor turning off an old Tradesman because some Upstart has got a handsom Wife Shuf But as to the business of Learning is not that promoted now-a-days Flush Yes as thus you shall hear a couple of old Casuists splutter their mouldy Notions and intricate Terms in one another's Faces The one labouring with remote Fetches to salve the opinion of a contradicting Dogmatist whilst the other bladders him with broken Latine transgressing form and confounding Axioms then like two batter'd Game-Cocks the last word gets the Victory Shuf They are very laborious upon 't it seems Flush No no They are too great to take pains I have known a Reverend poring Doctor that has swouned half an Age over a St. Austin and if he chanc'd to mount the Pulpit but once in seven years wou'd after a