X.Y.Z. A comedy. In two acts / Faithfully marked with the stage business, and stage directions, as it is performed at the Theatre Royal, with unbounded applause.

  • George Colman the Younger
Date:
1820
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: X.Y.Z. A comedy. In two acts / Faithfully marked with the stage business, and stage directions, as it is performed at the Theatre Royal, with unbounded applause. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    more than half engaged to me already. Oh f you fickle woman. Alld. Is she ? Sir, if you are a rival in the profession— Bray. Yes, I am your rival. Alld. Then, I scorn to do any thing unden¬ ted. May I take the liberty of asking your name ? f*®***y Bray I dont see, why I should tell him [Aside) I am X Y Z. at Slaughter’s Coffee-House. Grub, Are you ? If that’s the case, then, pray, sir, who the devil are you, all this while? (7o All dross.) A lid, X Y Z. at Slaughter’s Coffee-House— that’s an impostor. Grub, Two X Y Z’d»! Add, Bromic the first, and Dromio the se¬ cond. Pray, sir, are you of Ephesus, or Sy¬ racuse ? Bray. Sir, Pm of Durham—and it’s out— Grub, Of Durham! Then he must be Mrs, Moaser’s Neddy Bray, after all! I’ve made a .devil of a blunder ! [Aside,] Sir, ar’nt you the gentleman who advertised in the Morning Post? [lh Alldross.) * ‘ Alld. No, to be sure, the Herald-—I’m the Herald X Y Z, Bray And I’m the Post X Y Z* Ai d. [Half aside.) So you seem to he. Grub. And, pray, sir, what did you come hers for? [To Bray.) Bray. To marry this young-hem!—this middle aged, old gentlewoman, [Pointing to * Dora.) Miss M, Marry me ! You have behaved lika s* brute ! Then, prav, Mr. Orubbleton, who did that gentleman come to you for, [Pointing to Alldross,)