The Old Bachelor: A Comedy
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Scene IV.
[To them] SETTER.
Trusty Setter, what tidings? How goes the project?
SETTER. As all lewd projects do, sir, where the devil prevents our endeavours with success.
BELL. A good hearing, Setter.
VAIN. Well, I’ll leave you with your engineer.
BELL. And hast thou provided necessaries?
SETTER. All, all, sir; the large sanctified hat, and the little precise band, with a swinging long spiritual cloak, to cover carnal knavery—not forgetting the black patch, which Tribulation Spintext wears, as I’m informed, upon one eye, as a penal mourning for the ogling offences of his youth; and some say, with that eye he first discovered the frailty of his wife.
BELL. Well, in this fanatic father’s habit will I confess Laetitia.
SETTER. Rather prepare her for confession, sir, by helping her to sin.
BELL. Be at your master’s lodging in the evening; I shall use the robes.
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Chicago: William Congreve, "Scene 4," The Old Bachelor: A Comedy, trans. Evans, Sebastian in The Old Bachelor: A Comedy Original Sources, accessed April 25, 2024, http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=CK6DNRMKTUVDH9C.
MLA: Congreve, William. "Scene 4." The Old Bachelor: A Comedy, translted by Evans, Sebastian, in The Old Bachelor: A Comedy, Original Sources. 25 Apr. 2024. http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=CK6DNRMKTUVDH9C.
Harvard: Congreve, W, 'Scene 4' in The Old Bachelor: A Comedy, trans. . cited in , The Old Bachelor: A Comedy. Original Sources, retrieved 25 April 2024, from http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=CK6DNRMKTUVDH9C.
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