The Old Bachelor: a Comedy by William Congreve
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[Puts on her mask.]
SETTER. Why, if I were known, I might come to be a great man - LUCY. Not to interrupt your meditation - SETTER. And I should not be the first that has procured his greatness by pimping. LUCY. Now poverty and the pox light upon thee for a contemplative pimp. SETTER. Ha! what art who thus maliciously hast awakened me from my dream of glory? Speak, thou vile disturber - LUCY. Of thy most vile cogitations--thou poor, conceited wretch, how wert thou valuing thyself upon thy master's employment? For he's the head pimp to Mr. Bellmour. SETTER. Good words, damsel, or I shall--But how dost thou know my master or me? LUCY. Yes; I know both master and man to be - SETTER. To be men, perhaps; nay, faith, like enough: I often march in the rear of my master, and enter the breaches which he has made. LUCY. Ay, the breach of faith, which he has begun: thou traitor to thy lawful princess. |
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