Western Reserve Studies, Volume 1,Numéro 3

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Page 13 - A / Fool's Preferment, / Or, The / Three Dukes of Dunstable. / A Comedy./ As it was Acted at the Queens Theatre in / Dorset-Garden, by Their Majesties Ser-/vants./ Written by Mr. Lfurfe)'.] Together, with all the Songs and Notes to 'em, / Excellently Compos'd by Mr. Henry Purcell. 1688.
Page 5 - By my last Pacquet from England, among a heap of nauseous Trash, I received the Three Dukes of Dunstable, which is really so monstrous and insipid, that I am sorry Lapland or Livonia had not the Honour of producing it; but if I did Penance in reading it, I rejoyced to hear that it was so solemnly interr'd to the Tune of Catcalls.
Page 13 - Church-Yard, and at the Blue Anchor in the lower Walk of the New Exchange, 1676.
Page 23 - There's nothing so fatal as woman To hurry a man to his grave, You may think, you may plot, You may sigh like a sot, She uses you more like a slave. But a bottle, altho...
Page 95 - I'll make her leave her horning. I'll climb the frosty mountain, And there I'll coin the weather; I'll tear the rainbow from the sky And tie both ends together. The stars pluck from their orbs too, And crowd them in my budget; And whether I'ma roaring boy, Let all the nation judge it.
Page 15 - D'Urfey explains that he had intended it as a satire on playing the game of Basset, «only proper for Persons of Great Fortunes, and therefore I thought that a wholsome Satyr of this kind might have oblig'd some Country-Gentlemen, or Citizens of small Estates, whose Wives ne're heeding the approaching Ruin, took only care, they might have the Honour, to be seen at Play with Quality)).
Page 20 - Voice. 30 The Fop in Love may his dull Genius try ; The Soldier Drink, so Quarrel, and so Dye. The Alderman may Cheat, the Lawyer Lye. And Satyr now not dare to question, why ; You shall scape too, at th...
Page 93 - SONGS SUNG IN The Fool's Preferment OR, THE Three DUKES of Dunstable, In the SAVOY: Printed by E. Jones, for Jos. Knight and Fran.
Page 97 - Since that our Fate intends Our Amity shall be no dearer Still let us kiss and be Friends, And sigh we shall never come nearer. She was very shy of Lord Lovelace's Company, as being an engaging man, who drest well : And as, every Day, his Servant came to her, to ask her how she did, she always return'd her Answer in the most obeisant Words and Behaviour, That she was indifferent well, she humbly thank
Page 48 - He bids you be a duke, and choose of whence. Gent. Why, if you yield not now, you are undone ; What can you wish to have more, but the kingdom ? Mar. So please his majesty, I would be duke Of Burgundy, because I like the place. Beau. I know the king is pleased. Mar. Then will I stay, And kiss his highness

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