<p>Contents: Marriage a-la-Mode (Dryden).- The Libertine (Shadwell).- The Rover, Parts 1 and 2 (Behn).- The Kind Keeper (Dryden).- The Orphan (Otway).- The Wives' Excuse (Southerne). Also includes introduction, notes, chronology, select bibliography, and plot summaries.</p>

Libertine Plays of the Restoration (Everyman's Library)

JOHN DRYDEN

Thomas Shadwell

Thomas Otway

Thomas Southerne

Aphra, Behn

Dent

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1704 Excerpt: ...us both. Carolina. Hell and Devil! he's with her there; I'le steal behind 'em and' surprize 'em. So, Bevil, is this your private business Mrs. Wood, My Husband! I dye, I dye.,. Bev. You have done well, you have frighted a Lady into a swound j Heaven knows what will become of her. Wood. I knew she would be surpriz'd: Bev. Unlucky man: Wood. Death, Ned, you 1 stifle her, pull off her Mask and give her more air...-. Bev Pray forebear, Sir, you are not to fee her; she recovers. Ahs. Wood. Give her more air, quoth a How he frighted me: Wood. Good Sir Vol make a secret on't no longer; the may as well unmask; she and I are no strangers to one another. Mrs. Wood. What fays he? Bev. You may have seen her, but you are not acquainted with her. Wood. Al autre prethee leave fooling. Bev. upon my Honour you arc not A Gentleman ought in Honour to lye for his Mistress.-Aside: Wood. I could sooner believe a Country Gentleman that swears and lyes lor the honour of his Horse, when he is selling him. Mxs. Wood. He knows me; I am lost, undone forever. Bev. Whatever happens, do not discover your self. Wool i Wood. I am oblig'd to you, you can be kind to othersi.-Mrs. Wood, Can any thing be more plain-Bev. Prethee, VfoodiyjtoxMc us no farther,! assure you,you neither d# nor shall know this Lady. w.'. Wood: Is it so? Fare you well. I will let 'eraalone at present.. v...: f_ Exit Woodly..Bev. He'll go home and discover that 'tis you-.-. vMrs. Wood. As good luck would have it, I have the Key of the back Gate, and can te there before him: I hope! (hall hear him down that It was not I. _ £!// Mrs. Woodly. &cv. I doubt not. Oh Woman, Woman! impudence and invention never fail thee ata pinch. Exit,. _A noise within of rub, rub, narrow, short, gone a thousand y ar ds andsuch like...

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