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Scene VI.

Love for Love

by William Congreve





[To them] OFFICER.

OFFICER
By your leave, gentlemen: Mr Trapland, if we must
do our office, tell us. We have half a dozen gentlemen to arrest in
Pall Mall and Covent Garden; and if we don't make haste the chairmen
will be abroad, and block up the chocolate-houses, and then our
labour's lost.

TRAPLAND
Udso that's true: Mr Valentine, I love mirth, but
business must be done. Are you ready to -

JEREMY
Sir, your father's steward says he comes to make
proposals concerning your debts.

VALENTINE
Bid him come in: Mr Trapland, send away your
officer; you shall have an answer presently.

TRAPLAND
Mr Snap, stay within call.







                                                                                    

 

 

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Love for Love

Prologue. Spoken, at the opening of the new house, by Mr Betterton.
Epilogue. Spoken, at the opening of the new house, by Mrs Bracegirdle.
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