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Bess and he were on amiable terms, and he was secretly assured that the blonde pythoness approved him. "What am I to answer? What am I to do? Has the cherished Fopling gone astray? Say but the word, and I shall hale him to your feet." "Mr. Fopling is in the library," replied Bess. "He and Ajax could not get along without quarreling, and I separated them.
Being decided as to a path, Richard inclosed those dangerous shares with a typewritten note to Mr. Harley. The note, speaking in the third person, presented Mr. Fopling's compliments, explained that Mr. Fopling was given to understand that Mr. Harley would purchase those particular shares, stated their value as fifteen thousand dollars, and said that Mr. Harley might send his check to Mr. Fopling.
Fopling would not do for you. Were you and I to marry" Dorothy started "it would result in civil war. I've no doubt that you will be given a wife worthy your tyrannical deserts. She will find her happiness in sitting at your feet, while her love will make you its trellis to climb and clamber on."
In 1676, his last comedy called the Man of Mode, or Sir Fopling Flutter, came on the stage, with the most extravagant success; he was then a servant to the beautiful duchess of York, of whom Dryden has this very singular expression, 'that he does not think, that at the general resurrection, she can be made to look more charming than now. Sir George dedicates this play to his Royal Mistress, with the most courtly turns of compliment.
Fine gentlemen and ladies in the boxes that lined the "apron" applauded the witticisms of Sir Courtly Nice or Sir Fopling Flutter, as if they themselves were partakers in the conversation. Actors like Colley Cibber acquired a great reputation for their natural representment of the manners of polite society.
At intervals, he made growling comments upon Mr. Fopling. "Unless you and Ajax can agree," observed Bess soberly, "one or the other might better go into the library." Mr. Fopling made no demur; he was glad to go. When he was out of the room, Ajax came and rubbed about his mistress as though claiming credit for ousting Mr. Fopling, of whom he was certain Bess thought as badly as did he.
Some women desire slavery; they would be unhappy without a tyrant to obey." "And you are you of those?" asked Richard, half mocking Bess. "No; I prefer the rôle of despot. It is the reason why I shall marry Mr. Fopling." "And yet Mr. Fopling might turn out a perfect Caligula," said Richard, with a vast pretense of warning. Mr. Fopling was not there to hear himself ill-used. "Mr.
The intrigues and counter-intrigues are innumerable. At the end the cuckolds all jeer one another. p. 186 Sir Courtly Nice. This witty comedy, Crowne's masterpiece, was produced at the Theatre Royal in 1685. Mrs. Behn's allusion is to Act ii, II, where Crack, disguised as a tailor, visits Leonora. The language is often cleverly suggestive. p. 186 Sir Fopling.
Sir Fopling was said to be drawn for one Hewit, a beau of those times, who, it seems, was such a creature as the poet ridiculed, but who, perhaps, like many other coxcombs, would never have been remembered, but for this circumstance, which transmits his memory to posterity.
"Your friend Bess," said Richard to Dorothy, later, "is a bit of a blue-stocking, isn't she? one of those girls who give themselves to the dangerous practice of thinking?" "I love her from my heart!" returned Dorothy, with a splendid irrelevance wholly feminine; "she is a girl of gold!" "Mr. Fopling: he's of gold, too, I take it." "Mr. Fopling is very wealthy."
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