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Scene II.

Love for Love

by William Congreve





[To them] NURSE.

FORESIGHT
Nurse, where's your young mistress?

NURSE
Wee'st heart, I know not, they're none of 'em come
home yet. Poor child, I warrant she's fond o' seeing the town.
Marry, pray heaven they ha' given her any dinner. Good lack-a-day,
ha, ha, ha, Oh, strange! I'll vow and swear now, ha, ha, ha, marry,
and did you ever see the like!

FORESIGHT
Why, how now, what's the matter?

NURSE
Pray heaven send your worship good luck, marry, and
amen with all my heart, for you have put on one stocking with the
wrong side outward.

FORESIGHT
Ha, how? Faith and troth I'm glad of it; and so I
have: that may be good luck in troth, in troth it may, very good
luck. Nay, I have had some omens: I got out of bed backwards too
this morning, without premeditation; pretty good that too; but then I
stumbled coming down stairs, and met a weasel; bad omens those: some
bad, some good, our lives are chequered. Mirth and sorrow, want and
plenty, night and day, make up our time. But in troth I am pleased
at my stocking; very well pleased at my stocking. Oh, here's my
niece! Sirrah, go tell Sir Sampson Legend I'll wait on him if he's
at leisure: --'tis now three o'clock, a very good hour for business:
Mercury governs this hour.







                                                                                    

 

 

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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.
Dramatis Personae.
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