The Roaring Girl or Moll Cutpurse

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Dekker, Thomas and Middleton, Thomas

The Roaring Girl or Moll Cutpurse

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Authors: Dekker, Thomas and Middleton, Thomas

Date of publication: 1610

Type: Text

Language(s): English

OTA identifier: ota:3006

Collection(s): OTA Core Collection

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The Roaring Girl, or Moll Cutpurse
My case is alter'd
, I must work for my living.
Dramatis Personæ
SIR ALEXANDER
Wengrave
, and
NEATFOOT
his man
SIR ADAM Appleton
SIR DAVY Dapper
SIR BEAUTEOUS
Ganymede
[SIR THOMAS Long]
LORD NOLAND
Young [SEBASTIAN] Wengrave
JACK Dapper, [son to Sir Davy,] and GULL his page
GOSHAWK
GREENWIT
LAXTON
TILTYARD
[a feather-seller]
[MISTRESS TILTYARD]
OPENWORK
[a
sempster
]
[MISTRESS Rosamond OPENWORK]
[
Hippocrates
]
GALLIPOT
[an apothecary]
[MISTRESS Prudence GALLIPOT]
MOLL, the Roaring Girl
[Ralph] TRAPDOOR
[
TEARCAT
]
SIR GUY Fitzallard
MARY Fitzallard, his daughter
CURTILAX
, a sergeant, and
HANGER
, his yeoman
MINISTRI
[COACHMAN]
[PORTER]
[TAILOR]
[Gentlemen]
[CUTPURSES]
[
FELLOW
]
To the Comic Play-Readers,
Venery
and Laughter
The fashion of play-making I can properly compare to nothing so naturally as the alteration in apparel: for in the time of the great
crop-doublet
, your huge
bombasted
plays, quilted with mighty words to lean purposes, was only . . .