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If you have, 'tis but Trick for your Trick, Seignior Scaramouch, and you may spare the Pumping. Scar. For once, Sirrah, I'll bring you off, and deliver your Letters. Sir, do you not know who this is? Why, 'tis a Rival of mine, who put on this Disguise to cheat me of Mistress Mopsophil. See, here's a Billet to her. Doct. What is he? Scar.
Bellemante, Harlequin, Cinthio's Man, Mr. Jevern. Officer and Clerk. Elaria, Daughter to the Doctor, Mrs. Cooke. Bellemante, Niece to the Doctor, Mrs. Mumford. Florinda, Cousin to Elaria and Bellemante. Mopsophil, Governante to the young Ladies, Mrs. Cory. The Persons in the Moon, are Don Cinthio, Emperor; Don Charmante, Prince of Thunderland.
Do you your Part, and because I know thee discreet and very secret, I will hereafter discover Wonders to thee. On pain of Life, look to the Girls; that's your Charge. Scar. Doubt me not, Sir, and I hope your Reverence will reward my faithful Services with Mopsophil, your Daughter's Governante, who is rich, and has long had my Affection, Sir. Doct.
E'er since I lov'd and trusted thee, false Varlet. See here, the Witness of my Love and Shame. Just then Mopsophil enters. Mop. How! with Child! Out, Villain! was I made a Property? Scar. Hear me. Har. Oh, thou Heathen Christian! was not one Woman enough? Mop. Ay, Sirrah, answer to that. Scar. I shall be sacrific'd. Mop.
Contrary to expectation Cushing was very bad as Harlequin, whilst at Drury Lane Woodward was excellent. At the Lane, where it was played with Mrs. Centlivre's A Bold Stroke for a Wife and billed 'not acted 20 years', Yates took Scaramouch; Palmer, Charmante; King, Cinthio; Winstone, Baliardo; Miss Murgatroyd, Bellemante; and the inimitable Mrs. Green, Mopsophil.
At the entrance of the Candle, Charmante slipt from Cinthio into the Closet. Cinthio gropes to find him; when Mopsophil and Elaria, hearing a great Noise, enter with a Light. Cinthio finding he was discovered falls to acting a Mad-man, Scaramouch helps up the Doctor, and bows. Ha, a Man, and in my House, Oh dire Misfortune! Who are you, Sir? Cin.
Bullock and Spiller kept their favourite parts, Hall was Baliardo; Quin, Cinthio; Ryan, Charmante; Mrs. Egleton, Mopsophil; Mrs. Bullock, Bellemante. Doggett's The Country Wake was played the same night. Ten years later, still at this theatre, on 20 October, 1731, Hall was again Baliardo and Mrs. Egleton, Mopsophil.
Better than all Galenicus. SCENE IV. Draws off to Bellemante's Chamber, discovers Elaria, Bellemante and Mopsophil in Night-Gowns. Mop. You have your Lessons, stand to it bravely, and the Town's our own, Madam. Enter Doctor softly. Doct. Ha, not in Bed! this gives me mortal Fears. Bell. Doct. Bell. Doct. Bell.
It may be I have, it may be I have not. What then, Sir? While they seem in angry Dispute, enter Mopsophil. Mop. Seignior Doctor tells me I have a Lover waits me, sure it must be the Farmer or the Apothecary. No matter which, so a Lover that welcomest Man alive. I am resolv'd to take the first good Offer, though but in revenge of Harlequin and Scaramouch, for putting Tricks upon me. Ha, Two of 'em!
This is borne out by the girls themselves, who have previously been well primed by Mopsophil.
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