Amateurs and actors: a musical farceCumberland, 1818 |
Common terms and phrases
AMATEURS AND ACTORS argument gain'd art thou Beg pardon Berry Senior blest would Mary Bow Street bravo Buskin BUSTLE hastily BUSTLE'S Composer Covent Garden Cupid the best Curse the expence Dash dear Berry dear Mary DEAR SIR devil dingle Dulc DULCET and MARY Elderberry Enter BUSTLE Enter DULCET Enter GEOFFRY Enter WING Exeunt Exit Bustle Exit Geoffry Exit Wing Farce is o'er Fiddlestick's gentleman Geoff give goes Goneril heart Hollo honorable John Bull Lady let us depart Lord Ma'am Manager Miss Hardacre Miss Mary Hardacre Muffincap Muster Bustle ness never O. P. Bustle Pantomime patience person play pleasure pray Private Theatricals prompter Prompter's Protected by thy Psha Re-enter TIMKINS Romeo Sings song Song-there's stage stairs straw pair sure surprize sweet thee there's thing-a thou throw thy sanction'd love tol de rol Tragedy Heroine unhappy forehead Zounds
Popular passages
Page 22 - Alack! there lies more peril in thine eye Than twenty of their swords; look thou but sweet, And I am proof against their enmity.
Page 21 - Tis but thy name that is my enemy. ***** What's in a name ? that which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet...
Page 16 - At present, you are a better figure for Surgeons' Hall : but I am sure you will be useful. Ha! ha! to be sure, we who know something of the matter, must; laugh at private performers.
Page 23 - By love, who first did prompt me to inquire ; He lent me counsel, and I lent him eyes. I am no pilot ; yet, wert thou as far As that vast shore wash'd with the furthest sea, I would adventure for such merchandise.
Page 43 - O, fatal error ! rise, thou fair distress'd, And fly this scene of death ! Jul. Come thou not near me, Or this dagger shall quit my Romeo's death!
Page 27 - I'll go a wooing ! Oli yes I will ! indeed I will ! tol de rol, &c. Chance in my brew-house brought her — " Dame Popps, I love your daughter, And feel inclin'd to tell my mind, And cut my longing shorter !" Oh yes I do ! indeed I do ! tol de rol, &c.
Page 31 - Ah, sure a pair was never seen," &c. &c. Mary. O, I should be dreadfully alarmed! Ah, but you have a method of softening error by levity — Had we not better proceed to the hall ? It is hardly correct, that I should yet be seen in a strange place with you. Dul. [Sings,] " In truth, lovely tear, " It strange doth appear, " That we should be both here together.
Page 27 - I'd marry such a scrub ? Your hopes desist" — so with her fist She sous'd me in the mash-tub ! O yes she did ! she really did ! tol de rol, &c.
Page 27 - My daughter's fair to view, sir, But she may mischief brew, sir. And few can vie with her black eye. But yours may be so too, sir.