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50 The Self-Rival.
Ma Well, Barnaby, fince I have had my fliare
both of the Pleafure and Revenge ; it is but reafon-
able I fliould contribute towards the Reward. [Gives
Money. ~]
Bar. Madam, 'tis the higher!: Reward that you are .
pleas'd with my Performance, {Takes the Money and
Ex.']
Fat. Well, my Dear, can you give any better ac-
count of your Wedding- Affair yet ?
Ma. Yes, yes, Sir Ephraim talks hard of. an old
Lord j but I am refol v'd to marry nobody. O Ged !
to be tied to one Man all one 5 s life, and fworn to
obey him too, tho' the Creature lhould prove tole-
rably obliging, is a terrible thing ; but if he fhould
be crofs and perverfe 1 1 fhould never endure it,
that's certain.
Fal. Oh ! you don't know what you can do, till
you try • you will think very different then from
what you do now ; Marriage alters Folks ffcrangely.
Ma. But it is always for the worfe; have you not
obferved yourfelf, that married People are only fit
Company for one another.
Fal. Why, fince you prefs me to fpeak my mind,
I own I have.
Ma. Who can bear the Company of Lady Tender,
when Sir William is cut of the way ? her whole
Converfation is on him, tormenting herfelf, and all
about her, with her ridiculous Fears for his Safety ;
as if the Man were not at Years of Difcretion to
take care of himfelf.
Fal. I rather think her Company more intolerable
when he's prefent; for then, (he's always hanging
about his Neck and kiffing him, and he all the while
looking Babies in her Eyes, and fiddling his Hand in
her Bofom: then the filthy filly Names they call one
another ; as Lovey, Honey, Deary, and Sweetheart.
Ma. O Ged ! the fuifome things ! I hate to hear
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Works of Mrs Davys
DescriptionConsisting of, plays, novels, poems, and familiar letters. Several of which never before publish'd. In two volumes.
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Composite volume
DescriptionContaining The works of Mrs Davys: consisting of, plays, novels, poems, and familiar letters, and Silvia; or, the country burial. An opera, and The jovial crew. A comic-opera, and The cobler's opera
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Glen Collection of printed music
DescriptionScottish songs and music of the 18th and early 19th centuries, including music for the Highland bagpipe. These are selected items from the collection of John Glen (1833 to 1904). Also includes a few manuscripts, some treatises, and other books on the subject.
Special collections of printed music
DescriptionThe Glen Collection and the Inglis Collection represent mainly 18th and 19th century Scottish music, including Scottish songs. The collections of Berlioz and Verdi collected by bibliographer Cecil Hopkinson contain contemporary and later editions of the works of the two composers Berlioz and Verdi.