The Works of Sir George Etheredge: Plays and Poems Book

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: SHE WOULD IF SHE COULD A COMEDY. ACTED AT HIS HIGHNESS THE DUKE OF YORK'S THEATRE. DRAMATIS PERSONS. Sir Oliver Cockvood| and Two country knights. SIR JOSLIN JOLLEY, J MR. COURTAL 1 and V Two honest gentlemen of the tmen, Mr. Freeman, J The Lady CocKwoon. Ariana "| and' Two young ladies, kinswomen of Sir Joslin Jolley. Gatty, J Mrs. Sentry, the Lady CocKViooD'sffenttetuotnan. Mrs. Gazette "j ami r Two Exchange won1tn. Mrs. Trinket, J Mr. Rakehell, a knight of the industry. Thomas; Sir Oliver Cockwood's man. A Servant belonging to Mr. Courtal. Waiters, Fiddlers, and other Attendants. Scene: London. SHE WOULD IF SHE COULD. ACT I. Scene I.?A Dining-room. Enter Courtal and Freeman, and a Servant brushing Courtal. Court. SO, so, 'tis well; let the coach be made ready. Serv. It shall, sir. [Exit Servant. Court. Well, Frank, what is to be done to-day ? Free. Faith, I think we must e'en follow the old trade ; eat well, and prepare ourselves with a bottle or two of good Burgundy, that our old acquaintance may look lovely in our eyes. For, for aught as I sde, there is no hopes of new. - Court. Well, this is grown a wicked town ! it was otherwise in my memory; a gentleman should not have gone out of his chamber but some civil officer or other of the game would have been with him, and have given him notice where he might have had a course or two in the afternoon. Free. Truly, a good motherly woman of my acquaintance t'other day, talking of the sins of the times, toldme, with tears in her eyes, that there are a company of higgling rascals, who partly for themselves, but more especially for some secret friends, daily forestall , ' the markets; nay, and that many gentlemen who formerly had been persons of gre...Read More