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Guzman a comedy : acted at the Theatre-Royal / written by the ... Earl of Orrery.
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Orrery, Roger Boyle, Earl of, 1621-1679.
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1693
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should have burst out a Laughing in their Faces Enter Guiv. Alva Fran. leading in Salaz Fern. Tirelesa Tireletta both Mask'd the Priest following Guiv. The Rascals fled as soon as they but saw our Swords Salaz Gentlemen we owe you our Lives and these Ladies their Honors Ovie. By this Light our two Uncles Pir. Ah Uncles I little thought you would turn Wenchers and be Rambling at this unseasonable hour of the Night to follow your Game Ovie. Fie why should you to save Charges be your own Caterers were you ne'er so Cock-a-hoop you might have had an old She Adjutant in a Minute to have brought to your own Houses these natural Julips Guzm. By Hyems this is a strange sinful Age that old Men which have each of 'em one Foot in the Grave should be running on both Feet and in Cemerian Darkness too after their Fornication you that by your Age wrizl'd Faces and Silver Hair should be Solon's and Lycurgus's to turn Aratin's and Agrepina's I am asham'd of it Salaz Are you all Mad These two are not our Wenches but our Wives All seem amazed Fern. Why do you stare thus Ovie. Alas Uncles this way of Lying is worse than to do it with Wenches Pastra Indeed Sir the Excuse is as bad as the Fault Men of your Years to marry Girls it is two to one they give you an incurable Head-Ach Anton. Married 't is impossible Alas what have your Nephews done to affront you that you should thus chuse to disinherit them only to make your Wives Children your Heirs Ovie. Married said you to whom Salaz I am to Maria. Fern. And I to Lucia and this is the holy Priest that not an hour since did Join our Hands Ovie. Maria and Lucia Why those are the Names of our Wives Salaz A hundred several Women may have one Name but these two are our Wives nor are we asham'd to shew you their Faces Pray take off your Masks Fern. We own them for your Aunts Tirel Tirelesa unmask Salaz Fern. step back holding up their Hands Salaz What 's this Fernando we are betray'd and cheated Fern. I am turn'd a Statue All Laugh Mar. and Luc. unvail Salaz In the Name of Wonder what are ye Tirel Your Donship's Ladies as well can testifie this faithful little Levite Tirelesa Our Names are Tireletta and Tirelesa we were Maids to Maria and Lucia but now for want of better their Ladiships Aunts Fran. goes and gazes at the Priest Guzm. By Copernicus Conjuring Names and Jugling Faces this comes of making Love with Spectacles by Cassandra's Prophesies considering how Ante-Eagle-Ey'd these Old Fellows are 't was well they light upon two of the right Sex and not upon two Patriarchs with fork'd Swallow-tail'dBeards that reach'd to their Navels for if they had this Ambulatory young Elder would for double pay have married them as cheerfully to those Magi and to these two Cockatrices Salaz Undone for ever and past hope too of Redemption Fern. Ah Salazar To live till Eighty in the repute of wise and honest Men and then to act this Folly I hope the Grief of it will fling me in my Grave Salaz That 's the only hope that 's left me too Guzm. By Actaeon you have reason for 't is better to be six Foot lower than the Surface of the Earth than six Foot higher than the Crown of your Heads For so tall I Prophesie they 'll graft your Noddles Fran. Make room for me I cannot see two Uncles to my Sisters in such torment and not give 'em ease tell me Gentlemen would your being unmarried cure your Griefs Salaz O Sir Do not you mock us too Fern. Heap not Scorn on Affliction Fran. By my Life I am in earnest Will you give your present Wives Five hundred Crowns apiece to get other Husbands with and their Houshold Chaplain a Hundred more to buy Books a Cassock and a Gown if I make good what I have spoken Salaz Would we Yes as willing as Sick Men would be well Fern. Alas you talk of Impossibilities Fran. Bind your selves by Vow before all this Company and I 'll instantly perform what I have said Salaz Fern. We Vow it before all these Witnesses Fran. Then thus I make your Marriages Null Fran. pulls off the Perewig and her Woman's Hair falls about her Ears I gest this was my Sister's Laundress Priest I only mumbl'd over some few words which I made them take for Matrimony Salaz You have relieved us Sir from Pains which would have kill'd us in two Hours Fern. Our Debts to them we 'll pay to night as we have promised but those we owe you can ne'er be satisfied Guzm. By Craesus what a Mass of Mony might be raised among the Husbands of a Years standing could Francisco inable them to prove that every one of them had been so married Iul. Take heed you do not in six Months wish he could do it for you too Leon. Since all our storms are thus happily over-blown 't is fit we now should rest this Night ye are all my Guests Guzm. By Hercules's Labors who e'er but names the world Rest among so many Brides and Bride-Grooms Affronts the Company Why the two grave Uncles yonder had they not been divorc'd would by way of Indignation have spit in the very Face of that dull Mono-syllable Who thinks of Rest the day he Wed 's a Wise Deserves to be depriv'd of it for Life FINIS TO The Right Honorable LIONEL EARL OF ORRERY Baron of BROGHILL c. MY LORD UPON my Perusal of Guzman in Manuscript I thought it a piece of Justice to the World as well as to the Memory of your Lordships Honorable Grand-Father the most Ingenious and Accomplish'd Earl of Orrery to see it Published with the Volume of his other Plays I was surprized to find that the Author of the Black Prince Harry the Fifth and Mustapha should have a Genius for Comedy when he condescended to that Task The Tale of Guzman appears to have been a Spanish Design and therefore naturally grave but the Spirit of my Lord Orrery's Wit was sufficient to quicken the Mass to enliven and beautifie it to that degree as renders it an Entertainment for an English Reader The Intriegue is carried on with Variety of Accidents and Pleasant Circumstances and which is the Life and Perfection of Comedy wound up into a natural and surprizing Conclusion I have very seldom seen so many Characters of Persons and separate Interests managed with so much Conduct as not to perplex the Tale but every Thing serviceable to the Progress of the main Design The Reputation of Mustapha has been established by the Approbation of all sorts of Spectators and will continue a just Model of Tragedy as long as the Stage shall last The Story is magnificent the Characters and Persons of the Noblest Rank which are all maintained to their Dignity and preserved in their proper Colours The Business of greatest Importance The Expression and Sentiments Just and Noble The Passion and Distress wrought up to such a Height as commands our Attention and Affections The Noble Author of the ensuing Comedy was furnish'd within himself for any Performance of Wit forasmuch as no Man of his Time better understood Men and Things He was not only an Example of Ingenuity Himself but a great Encourager of it in Others Indeed there was no sort of Merit that escaped his Patronage Poetry was but one of his Accomplishments As for his other Qualifications derived to him from his Predecessors those he supported in his own Person and Character and transmitted them with Advantage to your Lordships Honorable Father who has again resign'd them as Hereditary to your Lordship That Sweetness of Temper that Principle of Justice and Generosity which are already conspicuous in your Lordship give sure Promises that you will maintain the Honor and Reputation of your Predecessors The World and Time are yet before you and you have already obtain'd so great an Interest in Mankind as to have every Body's good Wishes For my own part I am obliged not only upon the promising Hopes I have conceived of your Lordship but likewise upon the Alliance you have to our most Honorable English Maecenas to whom the Acknowledgments of the Muses are eternally devoted neither will it ever be determined whether he is more a Favorer of them or their Favorite I have already acquainted your Lordship with the Occasion of this Address and cannot despair of your Lordship's Acceptance of the following Piece in Print which I question not will be favorably received by the World I would only farther beg leave to say that I am with all Respect and Sincerity MY LORD Your LORDSHIPS most Devoted Humble SERVANT N. TATE Dramatis Personae GUzman An Old Covetous Rich Amorous Cowardly Buffoon Francisco Guivarro Alvares Three Brothers Gentlemen of decay'd Fortunes left to shift by their Wits Oviedo Piracco Two Young Foppish Dons of plentiful Fortunes Pretenders to Antonia and Pastrana Salazar Ferdinando Vncles and Guardians to Oviedo and Piracco who in stead of Discharging their Trust are themselves practised upon Maria. Lucia Sisters to Guivarro Francisco Alvares and Confederates in their Design Leonora A Rich Widow Antonia Pastrana Her Daughters great Fortunes all Three practised upon by the forementioned Alvares and his Brothers Julia. Leonora's Woman Youngest Sister to Maria and Lucia Tireletta Tirelesa Maid-Servants formerly to Maria and Lucia Boy drest like a Spirit Scene Salamanca * Maria and Lucia peeping through the Scene
I will But Brother Francisco de Alcanzar I hope your Sister has been Chaster than she 's Rich that is that she is a Maid Fran. I dare swear she is as good a one as your Father and your Mother were e'er they lay together Guzm. Is she not a better For I know not what Pranks they plaid e'er they Danc'd in one pair of Sheets Fran. Nay on my Conscience they were both Maids when they were Married else they could not have got so wise a Son But I beg your Pardon I must be gone Guzm. Whether in such haste Fran. I must run to Alcanzar to buy a Spell to keep my Sides together to see how like an Ass Guzman will look when he finds I have Plow'd with his Ox. Guzm. Nay by Caligula this is down right Tyranny abuse thy Brother come give me a Portion and by Damian and Pythias wee 'll be Friends Fran. A Portion why thou hast a double one Beauty and Maiden-head Guzm. Make me but as sure of the last as I am of the first and hang Portion I need it not Iulia to Guzm. By Alcanzar's Astrological Cabinet if you doubt my Virginity I 'll make Aries and Capricorn the Ascendant Signs of thy Forehead by the Great Cham of Tartaria I will and let me see who dares say me nay Puts her Arms a Kembo Guzm. How now my little Amazonian Thelestris in Arms already by Semiramis I have gotten a Virago in Petticoats Fran. Now judge if she were like to commit Fornication with any Body that is so ready to buffet no less than her Husband but for naming of it Guzm. Come my Artemizia of Hely-carnassus by Ioves Lady I 'll never be Jealous of thee Iul. If you be I 'll Cure you of it by Taurus Fran. Since Peace is thus concluded though I cannot give you a Portion of a thousand Crowns yet I forgive you a Debt of that Sum There 's your Bond. Flings his Bond to him Guzm. Content to receive a Thousand Crowns with a Wife or to be paid a Thousand by one is as broad as long Enter Oviedo leading Maria and Piracco Lucia Piracco starts Ovie. Why do you start Pir. Do not you see the two Bravoes there Ovie. No matter Guivarro and Alvares promis'd to meet us here and they never break their Words Should our Antagonists begin a Quarrel we deserv'd to be beaten if we cannot hinder it from Extremity till our Auxiliaries come and then we may safely bear up to 'em Ladies we come to bring our Wives to be acquainted with you Pastra We wish you Joy of them Pir. That Wish is needless their Beauties give us it Guzm. Stick to me bravely and then by Tomumbeius Guzm. draws Fran. Gui. Alva hastily aside of Aegypt have at them Will none of you Assist me None of you dare Second Guz. draws and makes as if he would run at them but stirs not crying me Fran. seises on Guz. Sword Fran. What do you mean Sure you do not know them Gu. and Alva to Pir and Ovie. saluting them they talk together Guzm. Not know them By Numa Pompilius these are my two Back-biters Fran. I thought how well you knew them I say they are your Brothers-in-Law Guzm. By Naso's Metamorphosis this is admirable Fran. Do you not see your Lady and their two Wives kiss and embrace like Sisters Separate your self a little from the Company and I 'll acquaint you with all Ovie. to Guiv. You tell me Wonders Guiv. and Alva are married to Pastrana and Antonia and our two Wives your two Sisters Guiv. 'T is most certain Alva When we had the good Fortune to save you from the four Bravoes your Gratitudes invited us by large Pensions to be your Attendants and though our Wants made us comply yet we are at least of equal Birth to yours though the Frowns of Chance robb'd us of all our Fortunes but we dare say bating what the World calls Portions you are not unequally married Clashing of Swords ready Guiv. The Ambition of being ally'd to you engag'd us in all those Arts which we have practis'd to attain it Ovie. For my part I rejoice that we are married to the Sisters of those whose Brothers saved our lives Pir. Portions are but the Invention of Gown-men a meer Trick to inhance the price of Drawing and of Engrossing Settlements I could never see a Reason why a Man should pay Mony to lie with a dishonest Woman and receive Mony to lie with an honest One. Ovie. I would fain hear the most Learned of all the Long-Robe answer what Piracco now has said Guiv. Believ 't 't is unanswerable But Sir I have an humble Suit to you 't is that you two and Don Guzman will be friends there 's Reason for it now since you are Brothers-in-Law Pir. How so Alva He 's married to our younger Sister Iulia. Ovie. Nay then it must be For since Women can quench Love 't is but just they should also quench Hate Fran. Come they wait for your advance the 'll meet you above half way Alv. Gui. beckon Fran. Guzm. Else by Lucifer I will not stir one foot All four advance towards Guzman Fran. You see they are coming Guzm. Nay then by the Pleiades I cannot be Ill-natur'd on my Wedding-day Embrace Guiv. In that Embrace let all past Quarrels be forgiven and forgotten Guzm. Forgiven If you will but by Lethe they cannot be forgotten till the two Fontenels they have made me here are siccatriz'd Noise with Swords Enter a Servant A great Noise without Leon. What Noise is that Serv. Oh Madam a couple of old Gentlemen with Spectacles on their Noses leading home their Daughters and attended only by their Chaplain are assaulted at the Door by three drunken Students and there are none to rescue them Ex. Servant Guiv. Alvares and Francisco let us three go and help them 'T is an affront to the House to have such Violence offer'd under the Walls of it Fran. Away away lose no time These three draw and run out hastily Ovie. to Pir. What if these should be our two Reverend Uncles coming from Matrimony Pir. Nay 't is three to one they are they with their two Wives and their Priest Guzm. What does Reverend Age do abroad at this hour of the Night especially with Wenches ' Death they deserve not to be rescued for my part I abjure the doing of it Pir. When they come in let 's upbraid them for Whoring Ovie. Content and let 's engage Pastrana Antonia and Guzman to reprove them severely for it 't wil heighten the Farse Pir. I 'll go and perswade them to second us and do you make our Wives cover their Faces till they have the Watch-word Ovie. Leave me to my part and go about your own Mar. Well! we will Vail our selves if it be Ov. goes to Mar. Pir. to Pastra and Guzman Whispering they until we have our Cue given us Luc. I am glad of it else though they had been our Fathers we