Inhaltsangabe
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1777 edition. Excerpt: ...all I have left to comfort me And see where they come all in a cluster----Enter Sir Gregory and Mirabel, Cunningham a/Nisce, Young Outwit, Lady Gentry, Sir Threadbare, Priscian, and Mr. Credulous. Sir O/. Heyday! rebellion in triumph! See what your care's come to now, Mr. Politick? Where's your wit at a pinch now, sir? Y. Out. Here! here in this fall purse, sir. Sir 0l. Very sine! so you have been in the bottom of all this roguery against me, and I am fairly cheated. Y. Out. To your heart's content, sir, thanks to the little wit your fatherly folly turn'd a-grazing. Sir 0l. Umph! Sir Greg. Wit! ha! ha! ha! why didst thou ever pretend to it, old Knight? Sir 0l. 'Tis time I shou'd give it over indeed, when thou ask'st that question. Sir. Greg. Ha! ha! why you are crabb'd, old uncle that wou'd ha' been. Sir 0I. And you are married to a great fortune, that shou'd ha' been. Sir Greg. Yes, yes, if rogue, flave, rascal, kicks, thumps, and bobs of the face were to be coined, she wou'd have been a devilish fortune indeed; 'flise, sir, I wou'd not have had her with that flint-hearted tongue of hers, though she were stuck all over with diamonds, tho' her backside were all beaten gold, her eyes to drop nothing but pearls, and the rest of her rocks to make wine instead of hogsheads of fair water.' Cas. That I dare swear he wou'd not, sir, if it had been only in pure friendship to me. Sir Greg. Nay, faith, I wish thou hadst scap'd he toe, and (hen she might have been eaten up with th green-sickness: look you, sir, in short, I have made this gentlewoman a lady, in spite of her, and have married her in spite of you, and will love her in love to myself; and to let you all see what honour she has miss'd the being'mother of, before to-morrow morning,...
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