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"I was amused with your account of the 'Zauberflöte, but you know I hope soon to see you lay by all your pretty Papagena feathers. All your satins and ermines must give place to a coarse apron then. You will be only applauded by my hungry stomach, called out before the cook-wench, and saluted with 'da capo' when you kiss your Carl. It is very shocking, I know.
To which Moll replies with a curtsey: "I am learning to be a cook-wench, Señor, at my father's desire." "You are here," answers the Don, with a frown, "to learn to be a lady.
Spondy with Gosling Scrag, who is understood to represent Lyttelton, "he is inclined to marry his own cook-wench, his gracious patron may condescend to give the bride away; and may finally settle him in his old age, as a trading Westminster justice."
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