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A59437
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The miser a comedy acted by His Majesties servants at the Theater Royal / written by Thomas Shadwell.
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Shadwell, Thomas, 1642?-1692.; Molière, 1622-1673. Avare.
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1672
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Wing S2861A; ESTC R21941
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cure de ' hear me Theodora Oh Sir doubt not but you may command me Tim. No forsooth pardon me I shall intreat you Theodora To do what Tim. Feck only to love me a little that 's all Theodora No more but that how can I chuse Tim. Ay but will you have me for a husband de ' see that 's the business I come about if you will I shall for my part be very glad to make you my Bed-Fellow as the saying is Theodora Oh Sir you deserve one of a greater Beauty and Fortune than I am Tim. Pshaw what 's matter for that 't is all one as long as my Father bid me ask you Mrs. Thea de ' conceive me Theodora Sure this Holiday Fool ha's never been bred to any thing but throwing at Cocks or demolishing evil houses on Shrove-Tuesday or may be he ha's Rid on a Pageant for a Neptune or a Sea-god or perhaps waited at my Lord Mayor's Table upon a Feast day Aside Tim. What say you to the proposition ha Enter Robin Robin Did you see your Brother Madam Theodora He 's gone out Tim. A deus take this Fellow for interrupting us Gold Within Theodora Theodora Heark I am call'd farewell Ex. Theodora Tim. Nay an I leave you the King shall know it Ex. Tim. Enter at the other Doors Mrs. Cheatly Cheat. Oh dear Robin art thou here Robin Mrs. Cheatly what makes you here for heavens sake Cheat. That which makes me go every where I love to be serviceable to the Nation in my faculty I bring people together and make work for the Parsons and the Wid-wifes But where 's Mr. Goldingham Robin What business can you have with him of all mankind Cheat. That which I hope to get by you know I have no Rents Industry and Intrigue must maintain me but thou art sure not to lose by it my dear Robin Robin And you not to get by it here I assure you Cheat. You don't know there are some things within my power that may touch very nearly Robin Why thou mayst sooner hope to get by thy Trade in a Town three years besieged and almost famished Cheat. I warrant you I have a way of tickling of 'em as they do Trouts out of their senses but I must work upon him by degrees Robin Why he would not give a shilling to save thy soul nor eighteen pence for his own I have heard him wish that that word Give were blotted out of the English Tongue you 'l put him into Fits if you but propound it to him ' Slife here he comes I must be gone I am sure Ex. Robin Enter Goldingham Cheatly Ah dear Sir how briskly you look to day good lack If I had not been in your house I protest I should not have known you Gold I look well alas alas Cheat. I never saw any creature so chang'd in my life sure you drink nothing but Viper Wine Gold Nay you wheadle Cheat. Upon my life you amaze me you look so delicately so fresh and gay Gold Nay but do I hah Cheat. Sir you were never so young in your life I have seen men of five and twenty in white Periwigs have less youth about them Gold But for all that I am above six and fifty Cheat. Six and fifty alas that 's nothing that 's the season of a perfect man you are now in the flower of your Age it was the time when the Patriarchs you know began to get Children Gold That 's true but if I were twenty years younger 't would do me no hurt Cheat. You jest Sir you need no youth I 'le lay my life you will live till you are a hundred years old Gold No no but do you think so really Cheat. Most certainly Sir you have all the markes of long life let me see hold a little Oh what a sign of life there is upon your forhead I am sure you 'l have four wives more Gold I care not how many wives I have I love to bury wives much Aside But have you such skill in these things Cheat. Ay as much as e're an Almanack-maker or Cunning-man of 'em all let me see your hand Heaven what a Line of life is here Gold How let me see He puts on his Spectacles Cheat. Do you not see how farr that Line goes Gold Yes but what does that import Cheat. A hundred did I say if you don't live to sixscore I 'le be content to be hang'd when I am so old my self Gold 'T is impossible Cheat. You will live to bury all your Children Grand-Children Great-grand-children and Posterity to the fift and sixt Generation Gold The more I bury the better what care I for Posterity I would be my self the last man of my family Cheat. Yes Sir as you are the first Gold But pray Mrs. Cheatly how goes our affair Cheat. If it did not go extreamly well you would not have me in so good a humour Well on my conscience no woman in England ha's that faculty in Match-making that I have there are no two persons so opposite that I cannot bring together if I had liv'd in that time I would have been hang'd if I had not Married the Pope to Queen Elizabeth Gold But I would not have had that done that might have spoyl'd the reformation but tell me Cheat. Why Sir I acquainted the Mother with your proposition and brought Isabella to the window as you appointed where she survey'd your person your age your youth I mean your meen and all your motions Gold And how lik'd she ha Cheat. She likes your person infinitely and her Mother and she entertained the proposal with a great deal of joy and Isabella says you are the most Reverend charming old young Gentleman in all Covengarden Gold 'T is her goodness but in troth that was a little too much but have you spoke with her Mother about Portion Cheat. Oh shee 'l be a vast Fortune she will be worth above two thousand Pound a year to you besides her Beauty which if you would you might make as much more of if she would consent Gold And if I can make so much more of her I am sure I 'le make her consent or I 'le strangle her Aside But how will she be worth so much besides Cheat. Why first she ha's the most thrifty Stomach of any woman in Europe she loves nothing but Sallads Milk Cheese Butter and Apples nor does she ever desire sweet meats above Almonds and Raysins you need not keep a table furnished with varieties or delicacies for her Wine she drinks none this will be worth a thousand Pound a year then she hates all finery Lace she detests out of hatred to the French Gold She does well it was a Roguish invention and he that first invented it is damn'd Cheat. She hates rich Cabinets Pictures rich furnished Closâ—ets and costly furniture extreamly this with her own thrift in Habits will amount to above six thousand Pounds then she has a horrible aversion for Gaming