Representation of the Impiety and Immorality of the English Stage (1704); Some Thoughts Concerning the Stage in a Letter to a Lady (1704) by Anonymous
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'If I should play the Wife and Cuckold him.
'That would be playing the down-right Wife indeed. 'I know according to the strict Statute Law of Religion, I shou'd do wrong; but if there were a Court of _Chancery_ in Heaven, I'm sure I shou'd cast him. 'If there were a House of Lords you might. 'If you should see your Mistress at a Coronation, dragging her Peacocks Train, with all her State and Insolence about her, it would strike you with all the awful Thoughts that Heaven it self could pretend to, from you. 'Madam, to oblige your Ladyship, he shall speak Blasphemy. 'In hopes thou'lt give me up thy Body, I resign thee up my Soul. 'A Villain, but a repenting Villain; Stuff which Saints in all Ages have been made of. 'Satan and his Equipage; Woman tempted me, Lust weakened me, and so the Devil overcame me; as fell _Adam_, so fell I. _A Bill was likewise found against the _Players_ of the other House, in the Term abovementioned, for the following Expressions; but the Indictement being wrong laid, they were acquitted: but they were Indicted the Term following for the same, which Indictment is not yet tried._ |
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