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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. 1751 Excerpt: ...Yes, dnncet fo the place is call'd where, clothes are put. Andraea. I'll remember it, madam, as well as the garret, which must be call'd the store-room. SCENE IV. COUNTESS, JULIA. C.0 Un T E S S. WHAT pains one must take to instruct these ani mals!...... Julia. I think them very happy, madam, in being under your discipline.,' Countess. 'sis my nurse's daughter, whom I h»ve. made my womar.; Ihe is raw y,'. H %. Julia. It mews a great foul, madam, and 'tls glorious to form creatures thus. Countess. Come, seats there; lacquy, lacquy, lacquy. How hard it is that one can't have a lacquy to reach chairs. Girls, laequies, laequies, girls, fome body there. I believe all my people are dead, and that we lhall be obliged to reach chairs ourselves. SCENE V. COUNTESS, JULIA, ANDRÆA. A n d R Æ A. WHAT would you please to have, madam? Countess. One mutt make one's throat fore with calling t'ye. Andraea. I was locking up your tippet and hoods it your clof--your wardrobe, I mean. Countess. Call me the little raseal of a lacquy. Andraea. Soho; Criquet. Countess. Call lacquy, hussey, and leave your Criquet. Andraea. Lacquy then, and not Criquet, come to my mistress. I believe he's deaf, Criq.--Lacquy, lacquy. SCENE VI. COUNTESS, JULIA, ANDRÆA, CRIQUET. C r I Q_U E T. HERE an't please ye. Countess. Where was yon, you. little knave? Ciiqnet. In the street, madam. Countess. And why in the street? Criquet. Why, you bid me go. Countess. You are an impertinent thing, friend, and you shou'd know that without, in quality terms, means the anti-chamber. Andraea, see that you bid my gentleman usher take care by and by to beat the knave; 'tis an incorrigible wretch. Andraea. What do you mean by your gentlemanusher, madam Is it Mr. Charles that you call so. Countess. H...