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The Village Ofera.
ACT I. SCENE!
SCENE r>&^ Garden of Sir "^Kkit^X^^ Wifeacrc,
Freeman (otherwife Colin) alone,
WHAT Work does Love make in this little World
of ours ? It is a Dram that only warms the Sto-
mach of a Fool, but turns the Head of a wife
Man topfy-torvy. If I fliould be difcover'd, I have
to very fine purpofe transform'd my felf into this Habit of a
'tjard'ner ; and that not for the Love of the fine Lady and For-
tune here, but her Maid, the Maid of Rofella, Daughter to
Sir Nicholas IVifeacre^ to whom all the Beeves, and Sheep,
and Poultry, and Fields, and Men, and Women round this
Village, folely appertain, and to whom I too ought to apper-
tain ; for the old Folk have appointed his Daughter and Me
to be joined together in honourable Wedlock this very Day:
But I run for it, and have made my Efcape into the very Pri-
fon I fled from, this Houfe of Sir Nicholas. My only Crony,
and Confident, and Friend here is Lucas the H6ad Gard'ner,
and my Mafter indeed : What a great Baby is a Fellow in
Love? ReaCon wou'd fay ^But what has Reafon to do in
that Affair?
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