The Works of the Honourable Sir Charles Sedley, Bart; In Prose and Verse ...

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. 1722 Excerpt: ...for their pouting, and preli'd with Rifles into their former Figure. This. You shou'd be corrected, and made to know your distance. Cu.n. I am sorry to find you in so ill a Humour, but I'll swear that Time at Spriug Garden we scarce spoke of any thing bur your self: She, as 'tis the Manner of fine Women one of another, maliciously enough, but I, with all the Tenderness and Transport imaginable. I see 'M.enyman coming I will take some fitter Time for anEcchircijsement. (Exit. This, This Fellow has Vanity enough to extract Love out of an Affront $ and wou'd kiss the pretty Foot that shou'd kick him down Stairs: He thinks all this is mere Jealousie. Entrr this. Hold, 'tis not come to that yet; you arc the Envy"of your Club. Four Hundred Pounds a Jfear, and neither Wife nor Child, and spend stall jn Drink. Merry. I am very conjugally given: I love of late to drink hand to hand with an old Friend 3 have left off supping, and do to Bed at Ten. Ht, These are Signs of a Body far spent in the $-vice. M#ry' I will leave off drinking, -eat much, and get Children innumerable. Ttit. Not till you have been tfWd; You ate an old Sinner, and I dare not venture upon you. Merry. I am as sound as a Bell, fat, plump, and juicy, and have drunk my Gallon a Day these seven Years. This, However, 'twill mend your Shape. Merry, i have been told I am as true a stiap'd Drunkard as heart can wish; Great Belly, double Chin, thick Legs; You wou'd not have a Pad look like a Racer?.. This. No; but I wou d have you thought to get you Children, if I marry you. Merry. I'll cut any Man's Throat that fays the contrary.... This. But they will whisper and make Libels t lour great Belly will be a continual Jest upon mine. Merry. I Will drink raking Rhenish, eatbutter'd Wheat, sweat in the ...