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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A27322	The rover, or, The banish't cavaliers as it is acted at His Royal Highness the Duke's theatre.	Behn, Aphra, 1640-1689.; Killigrew, Thomas, 1612-1683. Thomaso.	1677 (1677)	Wing B1763; ESTC R2712	62,525	90

PROLOGUE WItts like Physitians never can agree When of a different Societie And Rabels Drops were never more cry'd down By all the Learned Doctors of the Town Than a New Play whose Author is unknown Nor can those Doctors with more Malice sue And powerful Purses the discenting Few Than those with an Insulting Pride do raile At all who are not of their own Caball If a Young Poet hitt your Humour right You judg him then out of Revenge and Spight So amongst men there are Ridiculous Elves Who Monkeys hate for being too like themselves So that the reason of the grand debate Why Witt so oft is damn'd when good Plays take Is that you Censure as you love or hate Thus like a Learned Conclave Poets sit Catholique Iudges both of Sense and Wit And Damn or Save as they themselves think fit Yet those who to others faults are so severe Are not so perfect but themselves may Erre Some write Coract indeed but then the whole Bating their own Dull stuff i' th' Play is stole As Bees do suck from Flowers their Honey dew So they rob others striving to please you Some write their Characters Gentile and fine But then they do so Toyl for every line That what to you does Easie seem and Plain Is the hard Issue of their labouring Brain And some th' Effects of all their pains we see Is but to Mimick good Extemporie Others by long Converse about the Town Have Witt enough to write a Lew'd Lampoon But their chief skill lyes in a Bawdy Song In short the only Witt that 's now in Fashon Is but the gleenings of good Conversation As for the Author of this Coming Play I ask't him what he thought fit I shou'd say In thanks for your good Company to day He call'd me Fool and said it was well known You came not here for our sakes but your own New Plays are stuff'd with Witts and with Deboches That Crowd and sweat like Citts in May-Day Coaches Written by a Person of Quality Some Books printed this Year 1677. For Iohn Amery at the Peacock against St. Dunstan's Church in Fleet-street ADvice to Grand Jurors in cases of Blood Asserting from Law and Reason That at the Kings Suit in all cases where a Person by Law is to be indicted for killing of another person that the Indictment ought to be drawn for Murther and that the Grand Iury ought to find it Murther where the Evidence is that the party intended to be indicted had his hands in Blood and did kill the other Person By Zachary Babington Esq 8o. price 2 s. 6 d. The Country Iustice Containing the practice of the Justices of the Peace in and out of their Sessions with an Abridgment of all Statutes relating thereunto to this present Year 1677. By Michael Dalton Esq Fol. price bound 12 s. A Treatise of Testaments and last Wills fit to be understood by all Men that they may know whether whereof and how to make them Compiled out of the Laws Ecclesiastical Civil and Cannon as also out of the Common Laws Customs and Statutes of this Realm The fourth Edition with very large Additions By Henry Swynburne sometimes Judge of the Prerogative Court of York in large 4o. price bound 7 s. The Debaucheé or the Credulous Cuckold a Comedy Acted at His Highness the Duke's Theatre in 4o. price 1 s. Man without Passion or the Wise Stoick according to the Sentiments of Seneca written Originally in French by that great and Learned Philosopher Anthony Le Grand English't by G. R. printed 1675. 8o. price 2 s. 6 d. An Introduction to the History of England comprising the principal Affairs of this Land from its first planting to the comeing of the English Saxons Together with a Catalogue of the 76 British and Pictish Kings by D. D. Langhorne Printed 8o. price 2 s. The Actors Names Mr. Ievorne Don Antonio The Vice-Roy's Son Mr. Medburne Don Pedro A Noble Spaniard his Friend Mr. Betterton Belvile An English Colonel in Love with Florinda Mr. Smith Willmore The ROVER Mr. Crosbie Frederick An English Gentleman and Friend to Bel. and Fred. Mr. Underhill Blunt An English Country Gentleman Mr. Richards Stephano Servant to Don Pedro. Mr. Percivall Philippo Lucetta's Gallant Mr. Iohn Lee Sancho Pimp to Lucetta Biskey and Sebastian Two Bravo's to Angellica Officers and Souldiers Page To Don Antonio Women Mrs. Betterton Florinda Sister to Don Pedro. Mrs. Barrer Hellena A gay Young Woman design'd for a Nun and Sister to Florinda Mrs. Hughs Valeria A Kinswoman to Florinda Mrs. Gwin Angellica Bianca A Famous Courtizan Mrs. Leigh Moretta Her Woman Mrs. Norris Callis Governess to Florinda and Hellena Mrs. Gillo Lucetta A Jilting Wench Servants Other Masqueraders Men and Women The Scene NAPLES in Carnival time THE ROVER OR The Banish't Cavaliers ACT the First Scene the First A Chamber Enter Florinda and Hellena Flor. WHat an Impertinent thing is a Young Girl bred in a Nunnery How full of Questions Prithee no more Hellena I have told thee more than thou understand'st already Hell The more 's my grief I wou'd fain know as much as you which makes me so Inquisitive nor is 't enough I know you 'r a Lover unless you tell me too who 't is you sigh for Flor. When you 'r a Lover I 'le think you fit for a Secret of that Nature Hell 'T is true I never was a Lover yet but I begin to have a shrew'd guess what 't is to be so and fancy it very pretty to sigh and sing and blush and wish and dream and wish and long and wish to see the Man and when I do look pale and tremble just as you did when my Brother brought home the fine English Colonel to see you what do you call him Don Belvill Flor. Fye Hellena Hell That blush betrays you I am sure 't is so or is it Don Antonio the Vice-Roy's Son or perhaps the Rich Old Don Vincentio whom my Father designs you for a Husband why do you blush again Flor. With Indignation and how near soever my Father thinks I am to Marrying that hated Object I shall let him see I understand better what 's due to my Beauty Birth and Fortune and more to my Soul then to obey those unjust Commands Hell Now hang me if I don't love thee for that dear disobedience I love mischief strangely as most of our Sex do who are come to Love nothing else but tell me dear Florinda don't you love that fine Anglese for I vow next to loving him my self 't will please me most that you do so for he is so gay and so handsome Flor. Hellena a Maid design'd for a Nun ought not to be so Curious in a discourse of Love Hell And dost thou think that ever I 'le be a Nun or at least till I 'm so Old I 'm fit for nothing else Faith no Sister and that which makes me long to know whether you love Belvile is because I hope he has some