The Beggar's OperaHuebsch, 1920 - 83 pagina's |
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Affair BEGGAR BEGGAR'S OPERA BETTY DOXY Brother Business call'd Cambric Captain Macheath Charms cheat CHORUS COAXER Customer Daughter dear Husband dear Lucy Death Diana Trapes DOLLY TRULL Dram drink ev'ry Eyes Father Fellow FILCH fond Fool Friend Gamesters Gang Gentlemen Girl Glass Guineas hadst handsome hang hang'd happy hast hate hath hear Heart Highwayman Honour hope Hussy Jade JEMMY TWITCHER Jenny Diver keep Kiss Ladies Liquor LOCKIT Look ye Looking-glass Love Love or Money Madam Marriage married MATT Misfortunes Miss Polly MOLLY BRAZEN Money never Newgate Passion peach'd Peachum and Constables PLAYER Pleasure Polly's Account pretty Prey Prisoners promis'd Rascal Risque ROBIN OF BAGSHOT Ruin ruin'd Scene 13 Session SLAMMEKIN Slut Sorrow steal Strong-Waters SUKY TAWDRY sure t'other tear tell there's thing thou thy Polly Twas Tyburn Tree Villain VIXEN WAT DREARY Wench Wife Wine Wives Woman Women Wretch
Populaire passages
Pagina 28 - Oh, ponder well! be not severe; So save a wretched Wife! For on the Rope that hangs my Dear Depends poor Polly's Life.
Pagina 55 - How happy could I be with either, Were t'other dear Charmer away!
Pagina 47 - ... upon a promise as an excuse for following their own inclinations. — But here comes Lucy, and I cannot get from her — wou'd I were deaf!
Pagina 73 - Come, sweet Lass, Let's banish Sorrow 'Till To-morrow ; Come, sweet Lass, Let's take a chirping Glass. Wine can clear The Vapours of Despair And make us light as Air ; Then drink, and banish Care. I can't bear, Child, to see you in such low Spirits. And I must persuade you to what I know will do you good.
Pagina 80 - Since laws were made for ev'ry degree, To curb vice in others, as well as me, I wonder we han't better company, Upon Tyburn tree ! But gold from law can take out the sting; And if rich men like us were to swing, 'Twould thin the land, such numbers to string Upon Tyburn tree!
Pagina 41 - Before the Barn-door crowing. The Cock by Hens attended, His Eyes around him throwing, Stands for a while suspended. Then One he singles from the Crew, And cheers the happy Hen; With how do you do, and how do you do, And how do you do again.
Pagina 64 - twould be an irreparable Loss. The Vigor and Prowess of a Knight-Errant never sav'd half the Ladies in Distress that he hath done. But, Boy, can'st thou tell me where thy Master is to be found? Filch. At his *Lock, Sir, at the Crooked Billet.
Pagina 16 - Look ye, wife. A handsome wench in our way of business is as profitable as at the bar of a Temple coffeehouse, who looks upon it as her livelihood to grant every liberty but one.
Pagina 50 - When you censure the age, Be cautious and sage, Lest the courtiers offended, should be ; If you mention vice or bribe, 'Tis so pat to all the tribe, Each cries — That was levelld at me.
Pagina 11 - A lazy dog! When I took him the time before, I told him what he would come to if he did not mend his hand. This is death without reprieve. I may venture to book him. (writes.) For Tom Gagg, forty pounds.