Bell's British Theatre,: Consisting of the Most Esteemed English Plays ...John Bell, near Exeter Exchange, in the Strand, and C. Etherington, at York, 1777 |
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... reafon with all is prevailing . Lucy . What love or money can do , fhall be done : for all my comfort depends upon your fafety . Enter Polly . Polly . Where is my dear husband ? -Was a rope ever intended for this neck ! -Oh , let me ...
... reafon with all is prevailing . Lucy . What love or money can do , fhall be done : for all my comfort depends upon your fafety . Enter Polly . Polly . Where is my dear husband ? -Was a rope ever intended for this neck ! -Oh , let me ...
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... reafon , with now and then a little handfome difcipline to bring you to your senses . Go . [ Exit Lucy . ] Peachum then intends to outwit me in this affair ; but I'll be even with him.- The dog is leaky in his liquor , fo I'll ply him ...
... reafon , with now and then a little handfome difcipline to bring you to your senses . Go . [ Exit Lucy . ] Peachum then intends to outwit me in this affair ; but I'll be even with him.- The dog is leaky in his liquor , fo I'll ply him ...
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... reafon why , " • Or instead of the fry , Ev'n Peachum and I , Like poor petty rafcals , might hang , hang ; Like poor petty rafcals , might hang . ' Peach . Set your heart at reft , Polly.Your huf- band is to die to - day.- Therefore ...
... reafon why , " • Or instead of the fry , Ev'n Peachum and I , Like poor petty rafcals , might hang , hang ; Like poor petty rafcals , might hang . ' Peach . Set your heart at reft , Polly.Your huf- band is to die to - day.- Therefore ...
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... reafon flight , There's never an hour , While breath has power , But I will affert my right . Would I had you in England ; I fhould have all the women there rife in arms in my defence . For the ho- nour and prerogative of the fex , they ...
... reafon flight , There's never an hour , While breath has power , But I will affert my right . Would I had you in England ; I fhould have all the women there rife in arms in my defence . For the ho- nour and prerogative of the fex , they ...
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... Captain , he runs his reafon a - ground ; and there must be a woundy deal of labour to fet it a - float again . AIR XXXII . Amante fugitte cadente belta . Fine women AIR POLL Y .. 43 Nature, girl, is not to be corrected at ...
... Captain , he runs his reafon a - ground ; and there must be a woundy deal of labour to fet it a - float again . AIR XXXII . Amante fugitte cadente belta . Fine women AIR POLL Y .. 43 Nature, girl, is not to be corrected at ...
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Page 38 - I can fly, or I can run Quickly to the green earth's end, Where the bow'd welkin slow doth bend, And from thence can soar as soon To the corners of the moon. Mortals, that would follow me, Love Virtue ; she alone is free. She can teach ye how to climb Higher than the sphery chime; Or, if Virtue feeble were, Heaven itself would stoop to her.
Page 25 - Haste thee, Nymph, and bring with thee Jest, and youthful Jollity, Quips and cranks, and wanton wiles, Nods and becks, and wreathed smiles, Such as hang on Hebe's cheek, And love to live in dimple sleek ; Sport that wrinkled Care derides, And Laughter holding both his sides.
Page 37 - How happy could I be with either, Were t'other dear Charmer away!
Page 5 - The star that bids the shepherd fold Now the top of heaven doth hold; And the gilded car of Day His glowing axle doth allay In the steep Atlantic stream...
Page 6 - A lazy Dog! When I took him the time before, I told him what he would come to if he did not mend his Hand. This is Death without Reprieve. I may venture to Book him. [writes] For Tom Gagg, forty Pounds.
Page 7 - Such as the jocund flute, or gamesome pipe, Stirs up among the loose unletter'd hinds, When, for their teeming flocks, and granges full, In wanton dance they praise the bounteous Pan, And thank the gods amiss.
Page 26 - Before the Barn-door crowing. The Cock by Hens attended, His Eyes around him throwing, Stands for a while suspended. Then One he singles from the Crew, And cheers the happy Hen; With how do you do, and how do you do, And how do you do again.
Page 13 - If you must be married, could you introduce nobody into our family but a highwayman? Why, thou foolish jade, thou wilt be as ill used, and as much neglected, as if thou hadst married a lord! PEACH: Let not your anger, my dear, break through the rules of decency...
Page 9 - Just entered in her teens, Fair as the day, and sweet as May, Fair as the day, and always gay. My Peggy is a young thing, And I'm not very auld, Yet well I like to meet her at The wauking of the fauld. My Peggy speaks sae sweetly, Whene'er we meet alane, I wish nae mair to lay my care, — I wish nae mair of a' that's rare. My Peggy speaks sae sweetly, To a' the lave I'm cauld; But she gars a' my spirits glow, At wauking of the fauld.
Page 59 - Through the whole piece you may observe such a similitude of manners in high and low life, that it is difficult to determine whether (in the fashionable vices) the fine gentlemen imitate the gentlemen of the road, or the gentlemen of the road the fine gentlemen.