Farewel folly: or, the younger the wiser. A comedy / as it is acted at the Theatre Royal. With a musical interlude [in verse], call'd The mountebank: or, the humours of the fair. Never before printed. By Mr. Motteux.

  • Peter Anthony Motteux
Date:
1707
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Farewel folly: or, the younger the wiser. A comedy / as it is acted at the Theatre Royal. With a musical interlude [in verse], call'd The mountebank: or, the humours of the fair. Never before printed. By Mr. Motteux. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Dig. Here comes the Gentlewoman herfelf. Jen. Well, I’ll leave ye together. Exit Jenny. Enter Mrs Lodgem. Town. What! My Old Acquaintance, Lo dgem! Lod. Mr Townly. Town: My Dear Lodgem ! how happy am I to find yoa here. Dig. This Coufin of mine knows every body- Lod. Can I do you any fervice ? Dig. How is’t Coufin Molli We were juft coming to you ^ the Gentleman’s up to the Ears in Love with our Young Miftrefs. Lod. Then, Sir, you are not the only man who comes here on her aacount ^ there’s one of your Rivals at my Houfe, I muft tell you that. Town. A Rival! Lod. Yes, and one that comes to carry her off at once. He has her Fathers Promife for’t. Dig. This muft be the Country Put I’ll lay my life. Town. Nay, then I’m undone,unlefs you help me. Lod. I’ll do any thing for fweet Mr Townly $ You’re my Friend, and t’other is a Blockhead, Ineverfaw till juft now, that he came, and fet up his Horfcs at our Houfe* He told me as a Secret, that he wou’d not go to his Fa¬ ther, in-Law’s, till he had privately got a fight of his Mi* ftrefs ^ he never faw either of ’em yet. Town. Cou’d we not put fome trick upon the Coxcomb ? Lod. Nay, the Coxcomb is worthy enough to be trick’d 5 but ’twill be no eafie task. I’d fooner undertake a man of Senfe; he has feen London juft enough to be trick’d, and to hate it; which, adding Diftruft to Ill Nature and worfe Breeding, like fome Clowns, make him over¬ cautious, even to Rudenefs. He has their Cunning, as well as their Boarifhnefs: And fome of ’em are too much Fools to be cheated $ tho you mean the beft, they full fufpeft the worft.
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