The sparagus garden a comedie. Acted in the yeare 1635. by the then Company of Revels, at Salisbury Court. The author Richard Brome.
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The sparagus garden a comedie. Acted in the yeare 1635. by the then Company of Revels, at Salisbury Court. The author Richard Brome.
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Brome, Richard, d. 1652?
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London :: Printed by I. Okes, for Francis Constable, and are to be sold at his shop in Kings-street at the signe of the Goat, and in Westminster-hall,
1640.
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"The sparagus garden a comedie. Acted in the yeare 1635. by the then Company of Revels, at Salisbury Court. The author Richard Brome." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A16927.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 8, 2024.
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Scene 6.
Cur.
Come goe with us and find her.
Enter the Sedan, Hoy. in it, in womans cloaths.
Brit.
Pray gentleman stay, for I suppose She's here here's number one and twenty; & this is sure the litter.
Litter-man.
What peep y•…•…u for; you ought not to do so sir.
Brit.
By what Commission ought you to carry my wife in a Close stoole under my nose
Litter-man.
Tis a close Chayre by your leave: And I pray for∣beare, you know not who we carry.
Brit.
I know the cloaths she weares, and I will see the party.
H•…•…y.
I know that voyce, & let me see the man; it is my surgeon.
Tram.
A Surgeon! I took you for a China shop-keeper Master Britleware; these by trades are for some by purposes, and I smell knavery.
Cur.
And Lawyers cōmonly are the best upon that sent.
Brit.
Gentlemen this is a man that lay in my house.
Ho.
A gentleman you would say, or my cost was ill besto'd there.
Brit.
These are my goods he weares; that was my mothers Gowne, and felloniously he weares it.
H•…•…y.
Tis all I have to shew for foure hundred pound I laid out in your house; and Sir Hugh put it upon me, and hir'd these men to carry me—Whither was it?
Where he promis'd to finish his worke of a gentleman in me, and send me to my Vncle.
Cur.
O monstrum horendum; a man in womens cloathes.
Tram.
Tis fellony by the Law.
Brit.
Has sir Hugh gin me the slip to finish his work in private? it shall all out, I am resolv'd, though I bewray my selfe in't: pray gentlemen assist me with this party to Mr. Justice Strikers, you say my wife is there.
Tram.
Yes you shall thither.
Brit.
And there Ile take a course you shal smel knavery enough.
Hoy.
I finde Jam abus'd enough o' conscience: and shall be car∣ried to mine Vncle now before my time and not as a gentleman, but as a gentlewoman, which grieves me worst of all.
Cur.
Hinc illae lachrimae, the youth is sure abus'd indeed.
Hoy
Oh.
Tram.
Come leave your crying: And you beasts up with your luggage, and along with us; ile fetch such dri∣vers as shall set you on else.
Litter-man.
Let us be paid for our labour, and we'll carry him to Bride-well, if you please.
Hoy.
Oh, oh, that ever I was born in this groa•…•…g chaire.
Ex.
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