Act III
1. Time
“Yes, madam, I'm butler every Sunday” (42).
“Ladies, dinner’s upon table” (42).
“Yes, sir, there's a captain below, as the saying is, that arriv'd about an hour ago” (45).
“They'll be here to-night, sir” (47).
“Ah, Lord help your silly head! I'll tell you of a Monday I drive the coach; of a Tuesday I drive the plough; on Wednesday I follow the hounds; on Thursday I dun the tenants; on Friday I go to market; on Saturday I draw warrants j and on Sunday I draw beer” (54).
2. Place
• General Locale
“Fourthly, I demanded whence he came? Their answer was, they cou'd not tell. And fifthly, I asked whither he went? And they reply'd, they knew nothing of the matter” (41).
“In the country, you know, any stranger is company […]” (42).
“Pray, sir, ha'nt I seen your face at Will's Coffee house?” (47).
“Is your company to quarter at Litchfield?” (47).
“In this house, sir” (47).
“Yes, sir, born at Brussels” (48).
“he fought a duel t'other day in London” (51).
3. Society
• Family
“HA, ha, ha, my dear sister ! let me embrace thee,
now we are friends indeed” (39).
“Your hand, sister […]” (39).
“O, sister, I’m extremely ill” (40).
“Shall I send to your mother, child, for a little cephalic plaister to put to the soles of your feet?” (40).
“I saw him too, sister […]” (40).
“Your mother, you know, will begone to church, my spouse will be got to the ale house with his scoundrels, and the house will be our own” (42).
"My brother's, to be sure; he would never give me any thing else, so I'll make bold with his honour this bout” (46).
“Ay, ay, to be sure, there are secrets in all families” (51).
• Love and Friendship
“But do you think that I am so weak as to fall in love with a fellow at first sight?” (39).
“why should not we be as free in our friendships as the men?” (39).
“I’m in love with her already” (45).
“Secrets! Ah! friend, friend! I wish I had a friend” (51).
“Am I not you friend? Come, you and I will be sworn brothers” (51).
“From this minute- Give me a kiss- And now, brother Scrub” (52).
“You must know, that I am consumedly in love” (52).
“That jade., Gipsey, that was with us just now in the cellar, is the errantest whore that ever wore a petticoat, and I'm dying for love of her” (52).
“So do I; for I think he's a very pretty-fellow: come this way; I’ll throw out a lure for him presently” (54).
“Corn, wine, and oil, indeed- But I think the wife has the greatest plenty of flesh and blood; she should be my choice Ay, ay, say you so Madam your ladyship's fan” (55).
“It is so, it must be so, and it shall be so- for I like him” (58).
“Look’e, Dorinda, if my lord Aimwell loves you or deserves you, he'll find a way to see you, and 1 there we must leave it” (59).
• Occupation
“Why some think he's a spy, some guess he's a mountebank […]” (41).
“Because he keeps his horses always ready saddled, and his footman talks French” (41).
“You must go and get acquainted with his footman, and invite him hither to drink a bottle of your ale, because you're butler today” (42).
“Yes, madam, I'm butler every Sunday (42).
“Yonder's an honest fellow below, my lady Bountiful's butler […]” (44).
“Landlord; have you any tolerable company in the house?” (45).
“O, sir, I ask your pardon, you're the captain he told me of” (46).
“A marching regiment, sir; an old corps” (46).
“And pray, sir, what is your true profession” (48).
“A clergy man! Is he really a clergyman? Or is it only his travelling name, as my friend the captain has it?
“O, sir, he's a priest, and chaplain to the French officers in town” (48).
“Why, the mother of all this mischief is a priest” (53).
“Scrub: “Ah, Lord help your silly head! I'll tell you of a Monday I drive the coach; of a Tuesday I drive the plough; on Wednesday I follow the hounds; on Thursday I dun the tenants; on Friday I go to market; on Saturday I draw warrants; and on Sunday I draw beer” (54).
“How affectedly the fellow talks! How long, pray, have you served your present master?” (56).
“As groom of the chambers, madam, but not as a footman” (56).
• Social Rank
“and then his looks so humble were, and yet so noble, that they aimed to tell me, that he could with pride die at my feet, though he scorned slavery any where else” (40).
“Livery! Lord, madam, I took him for a Captain, he's so bedizen'd with lace; and then he has tops to his shoes, up to his mid-leg, a silver headed cane dangling at his knuckles: he carries his hands in his pockets, and walks just so [Walks in a French air.'] and has a fine long perriwig ty'd up in a bag Lord, madam, he's clear another sort of a man than I” (42).
“Oh, madam, you wrong me; I never refused your ladyship a favour in my life” (42).
“Oh, Archer! I read her thousands in her looks” (43).
“Her face! Her pocket, you mean! The corn wine, and oil lie there. In short, she has twenty thousand pounds, that's the English on't” (43).
“I'm only a traveller, like himself, and would be glad of his company, that's all” (45).
“’Sdeath! I had forgot; what title will you give yourself?” (45).
“My brother's, to be sure; he would never give me any thing else, so I'll make bold with his honour this bout” (46).
“Not I, sir; captain is a good travelling name, and so I take it; it stops a great many foolish enquiries that are generally made about gentlemen that travel. it gives a man an air of something, and makes the drawers obedient And thus far I am a captain, and no farther.” (48).
“A Frenchman sir, your most humble servant” (48).
“You must know then, that; my master is the lord viscount Aimwell” (50).
“What d"ye think is my place in this family?” (54).
“Butler, I suppose” (54).
“I have heard my brother talk of my lord Aimwell, but they say that his brother is the finer gentleman” (54).
“Bow! Why, I have known several footmen come down from London, set up here for dancing- masters, and carry off the best fortunes in the country” (55).
“thought that distemper had been only proper to people of quality” (55).
“Not long; my life has been mostly spent in the service of the ladies” (56).
“Madam, the ladies pay best; the honour of serving them is sufficient wages; there is a charm in their looks that delivers a pleasure with their commands, and gives our duty the wings of inclination” (56).
“No, madam, I take care never to come into a married family, the commands of the master and mistress are always so contrary, that 'tis impossible to please both” (57).
“I fancy, sister, he may be some gentleman, a friend of my lord's, that his lordship has pitch'd upon for his courage, fidelity, and discretion, to bear him company in this dress, and who, ten to one, was his second” (58).
• Social Standards
“why should not we be as free in our friendships as the men? I warrant you, the gentleman has got to his confidant already, has avowed his passion, toasted your health, called you ten thousand angels, has run over your lips, eyes, neck, shape, air, and every thing, in a description that warms their mirth to a second enjoyment.” (39).
“In the country, you know, any stranger is company […]” (42).
“Gentlemen of his coat are welcome every where” (45).
“A Frenchman and a priest ! I won't be seen
"in his company, sir; I have a value for my reputation, sir” (48).
“Bon. No, no, fait, the captain must lead” (50).
“No, doctor, the church is our guide” (50).
“No! if our masters 'in the country here receive a challenge, the first thing they do is to tell their wives; the wife tells the servants; the servants alarm the tenants, and in half an hour you shall have the whole country up in arms” (51).
“In the country, I grant ye, where no woman's virtue is lost, till a bastard be found” (52).
“Ay, could I bring her to a bastard, I should have her all to myself j but I dare not put it upon that lay, for fear of being sent for a soldier Pray, Brother, how do you gentlemen in London like that” (52).
“No, madam, I take care never to come into a married family, the commands of the master and mistress are always so contrary, that 'tis impossible to please both” (57).
“The count happened to be the most agreeable man upon the place ; and so I chose him to serve me in my design upon my husband But I should like this fellow better in a design upon myself” (58).
4. Economics
“Her face! Her pocket, you mean! The corn wine, and oil lie there. In short, she has twenty thousand pounds, that's the English on't” (43).
“Passion! what a plague, d'ye think these romantic airs will do our business” (43).
“I remember the good days when we could dun our masters for our wages, and if they refused to pay us, we could have a warrant to carry 'em before a justice; but now, if we talk of eating, they have a warrant for us, and carry us before three justices” (52).
“He's vastly rich, and very close, they say” (54).
“Madam, the ladies pay best; the honour of serving them is sufficient wages; there is a charm in their looks that delivers a pleasure with their commands, and gives our duty the wings of inclination” (56).
“I humbly beg leave to be excused. My master, madam, pays me ; nor dare I take money from any other hand, without injuring his honour, and disobeying his commands” (58).
“Take the money, and give it to me.”
5. Politics and Law
“Yes, sir, in the plantations, 'twas my lot to be sent into the worst service; I wou'd have quitted it indeed, but a man of honour, you know; Besides, 'twas for the good of my country that I should be abroad Anything for the good of one's country I'm a Roman for that” (46).
6. Spirituality
“Now tell me, don't you like the gentleman that we saw at church just now?” (39).
“Well enough ! Is he not a demi-god, a Narcissus, a star, the man i' the moon?” (39).
“the man is perfectly a pretty fellow ; I saw him when he first came into church” (40).
“Hem! Much better, "my dear Oh, here comes our Mercury!” (40).
“I believe he’s a Jesuit” (41).
“Oh, Archer! I read her thousands in her looks; she look'd like Ceres in her harvest” (43).
“What do I hear? Soft Orpheus play, and fair Toftida sing!” (44).
“The devil's in't if han't said enough to encourage him to declare” (47).
“The devil take him for wearing the livery” (58).
7. Learning and the Arts
“O brave sister! o' my conscience you understand the mathematics already” (42).
“Aimwell! Call me Oroondates, Cesario, Amadis, all that Romance can in a lover paint, and then I'll answer” (43).
“Never, sir, but he's master of languages, as the saying is; he talks Latin; it does me good to hear him talk Latin (49).
“I was educated in France, but I was borned at Brussels: I am a subject of the king of Spain, joy (49).
“Tall, all, dall- Come, my dear boy let's have that song once more” (50).
“What was that singing I heard just now?” (59).
“Yes, madam, I'm butler every Sunday” (42).
“Ladies, dinner’s upon table” (42).
“Yes, sir, there's a captain below, as the saying is, that arriv'd about an hour ago” (45).
“They'll be here to-night, sir” (47).
“Ah, Lord help your silly head! I'll tell you of a Monday I drive the coach; of a Tuesday I drive the plough; on Wednesday I follow the hounds; on Thursday I dun the tenants; on Friday I go to market; on Saturday I draw warrants j and on Sunday I draw beer” (54).
2. Place
• General Locale
“Fourthly, I demanded whence he came? Their answer was, they cou'd not tell. And fifthly, I asked whither he went? And they reply'd, they knew nothing of the matter” (41).
“In the country, you know, any stranger is company […]” (42).
“Pray, sir, ha'nt I seen your face at Will's Coffee house?” (47).
“Is your company to quarter at Litchfield?” (47).
“In this house, sir” (47).
“Yes, sir, born at Brussels” (48).
“he fought a duel t'other day in London” (51).
3. Society
• Family
“HA, ha, ha, my dear sister ! let me embrace thee,
now we are friends indeed” (39).
“Your hand, sister […]” (39).
“O, sister, I’m extremely ill” (40).
“Shall I send to your mother, child, for a little cephalic plaister to put to the soles of your feet?” (40).
“I saw him too, sister […]” (40).
“Your mother, you know, will begone to church, my spouse will be got to the ale house with his scoundrels, and the house will be our own” (42).
"My brother's, to be sure; he would never give me any thing else, so I'll make bold with his honour this bout” (46).
“Ay, ay, to be sure, there are secrets in all families” (51).
• Love and Friendship
“But do you think that I am so weak as to fall in love with a fellow at first sight?” (39).
“why should not we be as free in our friendships as the men?” (39).
“I’m in love with her already” (45).
“Secrets! Ah! friend, friend! I wish I had a friend” (51).
“Am I not you friend? Come, you and I will be sworn brothers” (51).
“From this minute- Give me a kiss- And now, brother Scrub” (52).
“You must know, that I am consumedly in love” (52).
“That jade., Gipsey, that was with us just now in the cellar, is the errantest whore that ever wore a petticoat, and I'm dying for love of her” (52).
“So do I; for I think he's a very pretty-fellow: come this way; I’ll throw out a lure for him presently” (54).
“Corn, wine, and oil, indeed- But I think the wife has the greatest plenty of flesh and blood; she should be my choice Ay, ay, say you so Madam your ladyship's fan” (55).
“It is so, it must be so, and it shall be so- for I like him” (58).
“Look’e, Dorinda, if my lord Aimwell loves you or deserves you, he'll find a way to see you, and 1 there we must leave it” (59).
• Occupation
“Why some think he's a spy, some guess he's a mountebank […]” (41).
“Because he keeps his horses always ready saddled, and his footman talks French” (41).
“You must go and get acquainted with his footman, and invite him hither to drink a bottle of your ale, because you're butler today” (42).
“Yes, madam, I'm butler every Sunday (42).
“Yonder's an honest fellow below, my lady Bountiful's butler […]” (44).
“Landlord; have you any tolerable company in the house?” (45).
“O, sir, I ask your pardon, you're the captain he told me of” (46).
“A marching regiment, sir; an old corps” (46).
“And pray, sir, what is your true profession” (48).
“A clergy man! Is he really a clergyman? Or is it only his travelling name, as my friend the captain has it?
“O, sir, he's a priest, and chaplain to the French officers in town” (48).
“Why, the mother of all this mischief is a priest” (53).
“Scrub: “Ah, Lord help your silly head! I'll tell you of a Monday I drive the coach; of a Tuesday I drive the plough; on Wednesday I follow the hounds; on Thursday I dun the tenants; on Friday I go to market; on Saturday I draw warrants; and on Sunday I draw beer” (54).
“How affectedly the fellow talks! How long, pray, have you served your present master?” (56).
“As groom of the chambers, madam, but not as a footman” (56).
• Social Rank
“and then his looks so humble were, and yet so noble, that they aimed to tell me, that he could with pride die at my feet, though he scorned slavery any where else” (40).
“Livery! Lord, madam, I took him for a Captain, he's so bedizen'd with lace; and then he has tops to his shoes, up to his mid-leg, a silver headed cane dangling at his knuckles: he carries his hands in his pockets, and walks just so [Walks in a French air.'] and has a fine long perriwig ty'd up in a bag Lord, madam, he's clear another sort of a man than I” (42).
“Oh, madam, you wrong me; I never refused your ladyship a favour in my life” (42).
“Oh, Archer! I read her thousands in her looks” (43).
“Her face! Her pocket, you mean! The corn wine, and oil lie there. In short, she has twenty thousand pounds, that's the English on't” (43).
“I'm only a traveller, like himself, and would be glad of his company, that's all” (45).
“’Sdeath! I had forgot; what title will you give yourself?” (45).
“My brother's, to be sure; he would never give me any thing else, so I'll make bold with his honour this bout” (46).
“Not I, sir; captain is a good travelling name, and so I take it; it stops a great many foolish enquiries that are generally made about gentlemen that travel. it gives a man an air of something, and makes the drawers obedient And thus far I am a captain, and no farther.” (48).
“A Frenchman sir, your most humble servant” (48).
“You must know then, that; my master is the lord viscount Aimwell” (50).
“What d"ye think is my place in this family?” (54).
“Butler, I suppose” (54).
“I have heard my brother talk of my lord Aimwell, but they say that his brother is the finer gentleman” (54).
“Bow! Why, I have known several footmen come down from London, set up here for dancing- masters, and carry off the best fortunes in the country” (55).
“thought that distemper had been only proper to people of quality” (55).
“Not long; my life has been mostly spent in the service of the ladies” (56).
“Madam, the ladies pay best; the honour of serving them is sufficient wages; there is a charm in their looks that delivers a pleasure with their commands, and gives our duty the wings of inclination” (56).
“No, madam, I take care never to come into a married family, the commands of the master and mistress are always so contrary, that 'tis impossible to please both” (57).
“I fancy, sister, he may be some gentleman, a friend of my lord's, that his lordship has pitch'd upon for his courage, fidelity, and discretion, to bear him company in this dress, and who, ten to one, was his second” (58).
• Social Standards
“why should not we be as free in our friendships as the men? I warrant you, the gentleman has got to his confidant already, has avowed his passion, toasted your health, called you ten thousand angels, has run over your lips, eyes, neck, shape, air, and every thing, in a description that warms their mirth to a second enjoyment.” (39).
“In the country, you know, any stranger is company […]” (42).
“Gentlemen of his coat are welcome every where” (45).
“A Frenchman and a priest ! I won't be seen
"in his company, sir; I have a value for my reputation, sir” (48).
“Bon. No, no, fait, the captain must lead” (50).
“No, doctor, the church is our guide” (50).
“No! if our masters 'in the country here receive a challenge, the first thing they do is to tell their wives; the wife tells the servants; the servants alarm the tenants, and in half an hour you shall have the whole country up in arms” (51).
“In the country, I grant ye, where no woman's virtue is lost, till a bastard be found” (52).
“Ay, could I bring her to a bastard, I should have her all to myself j but I dare not put it upon that lay, for fear of being sent for a soldier Pray, Brother, how do you gentlemen in London like that” (52).
“No, madam, I take care never to come into a married family, the commands of the master and mistress are always so contrary, that 'tis impossible to please both” (57).
“The count happened to be the most agreeable man upon the place ; and so I chose him to serve me in my design upon my husband But I should like this fellow better in a design upon myself” (58).
4. Economics
“Her face! Her pocket, you mean! The corn wine, and oil lie there. In short, she has twenty thousand pounds, that's the English on't” (43).
“Passion! what a plague, d'ye think these romantic airs will do our business” (43).
“I remember the good days when we could dun our masters for our wages, and if they refused to pay us, we could have a warrant to carry 'em before a justice; but now, if we talk of eating, they have a warrant for us, and carry us before three justices” (52).
“He's vastly rich, and very close, they say” (54).
“Madam, the ladies pay best; the honour of serving them is sufficient wages; there is a charm in their looks that delivers a pleasure with their commands, and gives our duty the wings of inclination” (56).
“I humbly beg leave to be excused. My master, madam, pays me ; nor dare I take money from any other hand, without injuring his honour, and disobeying his commands” (58).
“Take the money, and give it to me.”
5. Politics and Law
“Yes, sir, in the plantations, 'twas my lot to be sent into the worst service; I wou'd have quitted it indeed, but a man of honour, you know; Besides, 'twas for the good of my country that I should be abroad Anything for the good of one's country I'm a Roman for that” (46).
6. Spirituality
“Now tell me, don't you like the gentleman that we saw at church just now?” (39).
“Well enough ! Is he not a demi-god, a Narcissus, a star, the man i' the moon?” (39).
“the man is perfectly a pretty fellow ; I saw him when he first came into church” (40).
“Hem! Much better, "my dear Oh, here comes our Mercury!” (40).
“I believe he’s a Jesuit” (41).
“Oh, Archer! I read her thousands in her looks; she look'd like Ceres in her harvest” (43).
“What do I hear? Soft Orpheus play, and fair Toftida sing!” (44).
“The devil's in't if han't said enough to encourage him to declare” (47).
“The devil take him for wearing the livery” (58).
7. Learning and the Arts
“O brave sister! o' my conscience you understand the mathematics already” (42).
“Aimwell! Call me Oroondates, Cesario, Amadis, all that Romance can in a lover paint, and then I'll answer” (43).
“Never, sir, but he's master of languages, as the saying is; he talks Latin; it does me good to hear him talk Latin (49).
“I was educated in France, but I was borned at Brussels: I am a subject of the king of Spain, joy (49).
“Tall, all, dall- Come, my dear boy let's have that song once more” (50).
“What was that singing I heard just now?” (59).
Act IV
2. Place
• Specific Locale
There’s the finest bed in that room, madam; I suppose ‘tis your ladyship’s bed-chamber. (70)
3. Society
• Family
O, sister, my heart flutters about strangely, I can hardly forbear running to his assistance.
O, sister, I’m but a young gunner; I shall be afraid to shoot, for fear the piece should recoil, and hurt myself. (62)
No, no, no dear sister, you have missed your mark so unfortunately, that I shan’t care for being instructed by you. (62)
Aye, but, madam, your daughter’s hand is somewhat warmer than your ladyship’s (63)
Meaning your husband, I suppose (75)
Husband! No, even husband is too soft a name for him. But come, I expect my brother here to-night or to-morrow: he was abroad when my father marry’d me; perhaps he’ll find a way to make me easy. (75)
You mistake me, sister (75)
Look’e, sister, I have no supernatural gifts; I can’t swear I could resist the temptation (75)
Saave me my dear cussen, how does your health? (78)
Upon my soulvaion dere ish, joy But cussen Mackshance ill you not put a rememberance upon me? (78)
O, de devil hang yourshelf, joy; you know we were little boys togeder upon de school, and your foster-moder’s son was marry’d upon my nurse’s shister, joy, and so we are Irish cussens. (78)
The gallows! Upon my shoul I hate that shame gallows, for it is a diseashe dat is fatal to our family (79)
Yes, Mr. Hounslow, as the saying is - At one end of the gallery lies my lady Bountiful and her daughter; and, at the other, Mrs. Sullen - as for the ‘squire - (80)
And what think you then of my daughter Cherry for a wife? (81)
• Love and Friendship
Did not I tell you that my lord would find a way to come at you? Love’s his distemper, and you must be the physician; put on all your charms, summon all your fire into your eyes, plant the whole artillery of your looks against his breast, and down with him. (61~62)
O, ‘tis Leda - You find, madam, how Jupiter came disguis’d to make love (69)
His ambitious love, madam. [Bowing] His misfortune touches me. (69)
I must admire any thing, madam, that has the least resemblance of you - but, methinks, madam (69)
Because I was never spoke to before: my lord has told me that I have more wit and beauty than any of my sex; and truly I begin to think that man is sincere. (73)
But my lover took me for Venus herself.
Common cant! Had my spark call’d me a Venus directly, I should have believed him to be a footman in good earnest.
But my lover was upon his knees to me.
And mine was upon his tiptoes to me.
Mine vow’d to die for me.
Mine swore to die with me.
Mine kiss’d my hand ten thousand times,
Mine has all that pleasure to come.
Mine spoke the softest moving things.
Mine offered marriage. (74)
whereas, if I marry my lord Aimwell, there will be title, place, and precedence, the park, the play, and the drawing room, splendour, equipage, noise, and flambeaux (74)
O Dorinda, I own myself a woman, full of my sex, a gentle, generous soul, easy and yielding to soft desires; spacious heart, where love and all his train might lodge: and must the fair apartment of my breast be made a stable for a brute to lie in? (75)
Though, to confess the truth, I do love that fellow; and if I met him drest as he should be and I undrest as I should be (75)
I can’t stop, for I love her to distraction. (76)
‘Sdeath, if you love her a hair’s breadth beyond discretion, you must go no farther. (76)
Look’e my dear Bonny - Cherry is the goddess I adore, as the song goes; but it is a maxim, that man and wife should never have it in their power to hang one another; for if they should, the Lord have mercy upon them both. (80)
• Occupation
Good Mr. Priest, you can’t speak with her (66)
How now, impudence! How dare you talk so saucily to the doctor? (66)
Pray, doctor, what is the captain’s name that came to your inn last night?
Indeed, doctor, the count has been barbarously treated, that’s the truth on’t. (67)
What would you have me do, doctor? (67)
Nothing! is that nothing? It would be both a sin and shame, doctor. (67)
Well, doctor, I’ll take it logice - But what must I do with my conscience, sir? (67)
Leave dat wid me, joy; I am your priest, gra; and your conscience is under my hands. (67)
Ay but if the parties should meet, doctor? (68)
Well, doctor, your religion is so pure (68)
secondly, it must be a plot, because there’s a priest in’t (71)
This I know, that here has been the doctor with a temptation in one hand, and an absolution in the other, and Gipsey has sold herself to the devil; I saw the price paid down; my eyes shall take their oath on’t. (71)
The priest and the chamber-maid are plenipotentiaries (72)
Where’s the doctor now? (72)
This priest is the luckiest part of our adventure; he shall marry you, and pimp for me. (76)
O sir, your servant, Pray doctor may I crave your name? (76)
Foigard: a very good name for a clergyman. Pray, doctor Foigard, were you ever in Ireland? (77)
Upon my shoul, noble friend. dis is strange news you still tell me; fader Foigard a subject of England! the son of a burgomaster of Brussels a subject of England! Ubooboo. (77)
Come, come, doctor, consider we have got a rope about your neck, and if you offer to squeak, we’ll stop your wind-pipe, most certainly; we shall have another job for you in a day or two, I hope. (79)
• Social Rank
O, madam, the fame of your ladyship’s charity, goodness, benevolence, skill, and ability, have drawn me hither to implore your ladyship’s help in behalf of my unfortunate master, who is this moment breathing his last (60)
Is your master used to these fits? (61)
Aye, but, madam, your daughter’s hand is somewhat warmer than your ladyship’s (63)
Yes, my lord. How does your lordship? (64)
her ladyship had you katen in, and has miraculously brought you to your self, as you can see. (64)
I am so confounded with shame, madam, that I can now only beg pardon - and refer my acknowledgements for your ladyship’s care, till an opportunity offers of making some amends. - I dare to be no longer troublesome. - Martin, give two guineas to the servants. (64)
Come, sir, your servant has been telling me that you’re apt to relapse (65)
Do you begone after putting the count into the closhet; and leave the shins wid themselves. I will come with the count to instruct you in your chamber. (68)
I’ll lead you, and do you lead the count, and follow me. (68)
What’s become of his servant? (72)
• Social Standards
I am so confounded with shame, madam, that I can now only beg pardon - and refer my acknowledgements for your ladyship’s care, till an opportunity offers of making some amends.- I dare to be no longer troublesome. - Martin, give two guineas to the servants. (64)
Come, sir, we don’t mind ceremonies in the country - Here, Gipsey, bring the cordial water - Here, sir, my service t’ye (65)
Pray, sir, don’t take it illl; for the common people of England are not so civil to strangers, as -
You lie, you lie - ‘tis the common people, such as you are, that are civilest to strangers. (66)
If you receive the money before-hand, ‘twill be, logice, a bribe: but it you stay till afterwards, ‘twill be, only a gratification. (67)
You’re in the right, Dorinda; pride is the life of a woman, and flattery is our daily bread (73)
Look’e my dear Bonny - Cherry is the goddess I adore, as the song goes; but it is a maxim, that man and wife should never have it in their power to hang one another; for if they should, the Lord have mercy upon them both. (80)
4. Economics
If you receive the money before-hand, ‘twill be, logice, a bribe: but it you stay till afterwards, ‘twill be, only a gratification. (67)
thirdly, it must be a plot, because there’s French gold in’t (71)
Well, well, any thing to deliver us from sauntering away our idle evenings at White’s, Tom’s, or Will’s, and be stinted to bare looking at our old acquaintance the cards, because our impotent pockets can’t afford us a guinea for the mercenary drabs; and ten thousand such rascally tricks - had we out liv’d fortunes among our acquaintance - and now -
whereas, if I marry my lord Aimwell, there will be title, place, and precedence, the park, the play, and the drawing room, splendour, equipage, noise, and flambeaux. Hey, my lady Aimwell’s servant there - Lights, lights, to the stairs - My Lady Aimwell’s coach, put forward - Stand by; make room for her ladyship - Are not these things moving? What, melancholy of a sudden! (74)
5. Politics and Law
And some of ‘em here, when they are old - as for example - Sir, I arrest you as a traitor against the government; you’re a subject of England, and this morning shewed me a commision, by which you served as captain in the French army. This is death by our law, and your reverence just hang for it. (77)
6. Spirituality
Heaven will reward your ladyship for this charitable act (61)
Aye, but, madam, your daughter’s hand is somewhat warmer than your ladyship’s, and the heat of it draws the force of the spirits that way. (63)
Sir I won’t be sac’d your way - O hate a priest, I abhor the French, and I defy the devil. Sir I am a bold Briton, and will spill the last drop of my blood to keep out popery and slavery. (65)
Leave dat wid me, joy; I am your priest, gra; and your conscience is under my hands. (67)
Well, doctor, your religion is so pure - Me thinks I’m so easy after an absolution, and can sin afresh with so much security, that I’m resolved to die a martyr to’t (68)
What witchcraft now have these two imps of the devil been a hatching here? (68)
This I know, that here has been the doctor with a temptation in one hand, and an absolution in the other, and Gipsey has sold herself to the devil; I saw the price paid down; my eyes shall take their oath on’t. (71)
Look’e, sister, I have no supernatural gifts; I can’t swear I could resist the temptation (75)
Ara, the devil taake our relashion. (79)
Dark as hell.
And blows like the devil (80)
• Specific Locale
There’s the finest bed in that room, madam; I suppose ‘tis your ladyship’s bed-chamber. (70)
3. Society
• Family
O, sister, my heart flutters about strangely, I can hardly forbear running to his assistance.
O, sister, I’m but a young gunner; I shall be afraid to shoot, for fear the piece should recoil, and hurt myself. (62)
No, no, no dear sister, you have missed your mark so unfortunately, that I shan’t care for being instructed by you. (62)
Aye, but, madam, your daughter’s hand is somewhat warmer than your ladyship’s (63)
Meaning your husband, I suppose (75)
Husband! No, even husband is too soft a name for him. But come, I expect my brother here to-night or to-morrow: he was abroad when my father marry’d me; perhaps he’ll find a way to make me easy. (75)
You mistake me, sister (75)
Look’e, sister, I have no supernatural gifts; I can’t swear I could resist the temptation (75)
Saave me my dear cussen, how does your health? (78)
Upon my soulvaion dere ish, joy But cussen Mackshance ill you not put a rememberance upon me? (78)
O, de devil hang yourshelf, joy; you know we were little boys togeder upon de school, and your foster-moder’s son was marry’d upon my nurse’s shister, joy, and so we are Irish cussens. (78)
The gallows! Upon my shoul I hate that shame gallows, for it is a diseashe dat is fatal to our family (79)
Yes, Mr. Hounslow, as the saying is - At one end of the gallery lies my lady Bountiful and her daughter; and, at the other, Mrs. Sullen - as for the ‘squire - (80)
And what think you then of my daughter Cherry for a wife? (81)
• Love and Friendship
Did not I tell you that my lord would find a way to come at you? Love’s his distemper, and you must be the physician; put on all your charms, summon all your fire into your eyes, plant the whole artillery of your looks against his breast, and down with him. (61~62)
O, ‘tis Leda - You find, madam, how Jupiter came disguis’d to make love (69)
His ambitious love, madam. [Bowing] His misfortune touches me. (69)
I must admire any thing, madam, that has the least resemblance of you - but, methinks, madam (69)
Because I was never spoke to before: my lord has told me that I have more wit and beauty than any of my sex; and truly I begin to think that man is sincere. (73)
But my lover took me for Venus herself.
Common cant! Had my spark call’d me a Venus directly, I should have believed him to be a footman in good earnest.
But my lover was upon his knees to me.
And mine was upon his tiptoes to me.
Mine vow’d to die for me.
Mine swore to die with me.
Mine kiss’d my hand ten thousand times,
Mine has all that pleasure to come.
Mine spoke the softest moving things.
Mine offered marriage. (74)
whereas, if I marry my lord Aimwell, there will be title, place, and precedence, the park, the play, and the drawing room, splendour, equipage, noise, and flambeaux (74)
O Dorinda, I own myself a woman, full of my sex, a gentle, generous soul, easy and yielding to soft desires; spacious heart, where love and all his train might lodge: and must the fair apartment of my breast be made a stable for a brute to lie in? (75)
Though, to confess the truth, I do love that fellow; and if I met him drest as he should be and I undrest as I should be (75)
I can’t stop, for I love her to distraction. (76)
‘Sdeath, if you love her a hair’s breadth beyond discretion, you must go no farther. (76)
Look’e my dear Bonny - Cherry is the goddess I adore, as the song goes; but it is a maxim, that man and wife should never have it in their power to hang one another; for if they should, the Lord have mercy upon them both. (80)
• Occupation
Good Mr. Priest, you can’t speak with her (66)
How now, impudence! How dare you talk so saucily to the doctor? (66)
Pray, doctor, what is the captain’s name that came to your inn last night?
Indeed, doctor, the count has been barbarously treated, that’s the truth on’t. (67)
What would you have me do, doctor? (67)
Nothing! is that nothing? It would be both a sin and shame, doctor. (67)
Well, doctor, I’ll take it logice - But what must I do with my conscience, sir? (67)
Leave dat wid me, joy; I am your priest, gra; and your conscience is under my hands. (67)
Ay but if the parties should meet, doctor? (68)
Well, doctor, your religion is so pure (68)
secondly, it must be a plot, because there’s a priest in’t (71)
This I know, that here has been the doctor with a temptation in one hand, and an absolution in the other, and Gipsey has sold herself to the devil; I saw the price paid down; my eyes shall take their oath on’t. (71)
The priest and the chamber-maid are plenipotentiaries (72)
Where’s the doctor now? (72)
This priest is the luckiest part of our adventure; he shall marry you, and pimp for me. (76)
O sir, your servant, Pray doctor may I crave your name? (76)
Foigard: a very good name for a clergyman. Pray, doctor Foigard, were you ever in Ireland? (77)
Upon my shoul, noble friend. dis is strange news you still tell me; fader Foigard a subject of England! the son of a burgomaster of Brussels a subject of England! Ubooboo. (77)
Come, come, doctor, consider we have got a rope about your neck, and if you offer to squeak, we’ll stop your wind-pipe, most certainly; we shall have another job for you in a day or two, I hope. (79)
• Social Rank
O, madam, the fame of your ladyship’s charity, goodness, benevolence, skill, and ability, have drawn me hither to implore your ladyship’s help in behalf of my unfortunate master, who is this moment breathing his last (60)
Is your master used to these fits? (61)
Aye, but, madam, your daughter’s hand is somewhat warmer than your ladyship’s (63)
Yes, my lord. How does your lordship? (64)
her ladyship had you katen in, and has miraculously brought you to your self, as you can see. (64)
I am so confounded with shame, madam, that I can now only beg pardon - and refer my acknowledgements for your ladyship’s care, till an opportunity offers of making some amends. - I dare to be no longer troublesome. - Martin, give two guineas to the servants. (64)
Come, sir, your servant has been telling me that you’re apt to relapse (65)
Do you begone after putting the count into the closhet; and leave the shins wid themselves. I will come with the count to instruct you in your chamber. (68)
I’ll lead you, and do you lead the count, and follow me. (68)
What’s become of his servant? (72)
• Social Standards
I am so confounded with shame, madam, that I can now only beg pardon - and refer my acknowledgements for your ladyship’s care, till an opportunity offers of making some amends.- I dare to be no longer troublesome. - Martin, give two guineas to the servants. (64)
Come, sir, we don’t mind ceremonies in the country - Here, Gipsey, bring the cordial water - Here, sir, my service t’ye (65)
Pray, sir, don’t take it illl; for the common people of England are not so civil to strangers, as -
You lie, you lie - ‘tis the common people, such as you are, that are civilest to strangers. (66)
If you receive the money before-hand, ‘twill be, logice, a bribe: but it you stay till afterwards, ‘twill be, only a gratification. (67)
You’re in the right, Dorinda; pride is the life of a woman, and flattery is our daily bread (73)
Look’e my dear Bonny - Cherry is the goddess I adore, as the song goes; but it is a maxim, that man and wife should never have it in their power to hang one another; for if they should, the Lord have mercy upon them both. (80)
4. Economics
If you receive the money before-hand, ‘twill be, logice, a bribe: but it you stay till afterwards, ‘twill be, only a gratification. (67)
thirdly, it must be a plot, because there’s French gold in’t (71)
Well, well, any thing to deliver us from sauntering away our idle evenings at White’s, Tom’s, or Will’s, and be stinted to bare looking at our old acquaintance the cards, because our impotent pockets can’t afford us a guinea for the mercenary drabs; and ten thousand such rascally tricks - had we out liv’d fortunes among our acquaintance - and now -
whereas, if I marry my lord Aimwell, there will be title, place, and precedence, the park, the play, and the drawing room, splendour, equipage, noise, and flambeaux. Hey, my lady Aimwell’s servant there - Lights, lights, to the stairs - My Lady Aimwell’s coach, put forward - Stand by; make room for her ladyship - Are not these things moving? What, melancholy of a sudden! (74)
5. Politics and Law
And some of ‘em here, when they are old - as for example - Sir, I arrest you as a traitor against the government; you’re a subject of England, and this morning shewed me a commision, by which you served as captain in the French army. This is death by our law, and your reverence just hang for it. (77)
6. Spirituality
Heaven will reward your ladyship for this charitable act (61)
Aye, but, madam, your daughter’s hand is somewhat warmer than your ladyship’s, and the heat of it draws the force of the spirits that way. (63)
Sir I won’t be sac’d your way - O hate a priest, I abhor the French, and I defy the devil. Sir I am a bold Briton, and will spill the last drop of my blood to keep out popery and slavery. (65)
Leave dat wid me, joy; I am your priest, gra; and your conscience is under my hands. (67)
Well, doctor, your religion is so pure - Me thinks I’m so easy after an absolution, and can sin afresh with so much security, that I’m resolved to die a martyr to’t (68)
What witchcraft now have these two imps of the devil been a hatching here? (68)
This I know, that here has been the doctor with a temptation in one hand, and an absolution in the other, and Gipsey has sold herself to the devil; I saw the price paid down; my eyes shall take their oath on’t. (71)
Look’e, sister, I have no supernatural gifts; I can’t swear I could resist the temptation (75)
Ara, the devil taake our relashion. (79)
Dark as hell.
And blows like the devil (80)