A cure for a cuckold
dc.contributor | Gunby, David Department of English, University of Canterbury, NZ |
dc.contributor.author | Webster, John, 1580?-1625? |
dc.date.accessioned | 2018-07-27 |
dc.date.accessioned | 2022-08-21T16:22:18Z |
dc.date.available | 2022-08-21T16:22:18Z |
dc.date.created | 1661 |
dc.date.issued | 1985-03-06 |
dc.identifier | ota:0602 |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14106/0602 |
dc.description.abstract | Authorship tests |
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dc.format.medium | Digital bitstream |
dc.language | English |
dc.language.iso | eng |
dc.publisher | University of Oxford |
dc.relation.ispartof | Oxford Text Archive Legacy Collection |
dc.rights | Distributed by the University of Oxford under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. |
dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ |
dc.rights.label | PUB |
dc.subject.lcsh | Plays -- England -- 17th century |
dc.subject.lcsh | Comedies -- England -- 17th century |
dc.title | A cure for a cuckold |
dc.type | Text |
has.files | yes |
branding | Oxford Text Archive |
files.size | 109134 |
files.count | 1 |
otaterms.date.range | 1600-1699 |
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<TITLE A CURE FOR A CUCKOLD.> <SN ACT 1, SCENE 1.> <SSD WOODROFF'S HOUSE.!> <SSD ENTER LESSINGHAM AND CLARE.> <Q LESSINGHAM.> THIS IS A PLACE OF FEASTING AND OF JOY, AND AS IN TRIUMPHS AND OVATIONS,HERE NOTHING SAVE STATE AND PLEASURE. <Q CLARE.> 'TIS CONFEST. <Q LESS.> A DAY OF MIRTH AND SOLEMN JUBILE. <Q CLARE.> FOR SUCH AS CAN BE MERRY. <Q LESS.> A HAPPY NUPTIAL, SINCE A LIKE PAIR OF FORTUNES SUITABLE, EQUALITY IN BIRTH,PARITY IN YEARS, AND IN AFFECTION NO WAY DIFFERENT, ARE THIS DAY SWEETLY COUPLED. <Q CLARE.> 'TIS A MARRIAGE. <Q LESS.> TRUE,LADY,AND A NOBLE PRE CE!DENT ME THINKS FOR US TO FOLLOW:WHY SHOULD THESE OUT-STRIP US IN OUR LOVES,THAT HAVE NOT YET OUT-GONE US IN OUR TIME? IF WE THUS LOOSE OUR BEST,AND NOT TO BE RECOVERED HOURS UNPROFITABLY SPENT,WE SHALL BE HELD MEER TREWANTS IN LOVES SCHOOL. <Q CLARE.> THAT'S A STUDY IN WHICH I NEVER SHALL AMBITION HAVE TO BECOME GRADUATE. <Q LESS.> LADY,YOU ARE SAD: THIS JOVIAL MEETING PUTS ME IN A SPIRIT TO BE MADE SU . . .