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    The Basset-Table
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    The Basset-Table

    By Susanna Centlivre

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGood Press
    Release dateAug 31, 2021
    ISBN4064066367794
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      The Basset-Table - Susanna Centlivre

      Susanna Centlivre

      The Basset-Table

      Published by Good Press, 2022

      [email protected]

      EAN 4064066367794

      Table of Contents

      WORKS

      Mrs. CENTLIVRE.

      BASSET-TABLE.

      WORKS

      Table of Contents

      OF THE CELEBRATED

      Mrs. CENTLIVRE.

      Table of Contents

      IN THREE VOLUMES

      VOLUME THE FIRST

      LONDON:

      M.DCC.LXI.

      Dramatis Personæ.

      SCENE, Lady Reveller's Lodgings, in Covent-Garden; the Time, Four o'Clock in the Morning.

      THE

      BASSET-TABLE.

      Table of Contents

      THE

      PROLOGUE.

      Spoken by Mr. Penkethman.

      ACT I.

      SCENE, A large Hall, a Porter with a Staff, several Chairs waiting, and Footmen asleep, with Torches and Flambeaux standing about the Room.

      Footman.

      Certainly they'll play all Night, this is a cursed Life.

      Port. How long have you liv'd with your Lady?

      Footm. A Month; too long by thirty Days, if this be her Way of Living, I shall be dead before the Year's out; she games all Night, and sleeps all Day.

      Port. Then you sleep too, what's the Matter?

      Footm. I deny that; for while she sleeps I'm employ'd in Howd'ye's, from one End of the Town to the other.

      Port. But you rest while she's gaming; What would you do if you led my Life? This is my Lady's constant Practice.

      Footm. Your Lady keeps a Basset-Table, much good may do you with your Service——Hark, they are broke up. [Within.] Ha, hy, my Lady Gamewell's Chair ready there—Mr. Sonica's Servant.

      [The Footmen wake in a Hurry.

      1st Footm. Where the Devil is my Flambeaux?

      2d Footm. So-hey——Robin, get the Chair ready, my Lady's coming; stay, stay, let me light my Flambeaux.

      3d Footm. [Yawning.] Hey, hoa, what han't they done play yet?

      Port. They are now coming down, but your Lady is gone half an Hour ago.

      3d Footm. The Devil she is! Why did not you call me?

      Port. I did not see you.

      3d Footm. Was you blind—She has lost her Money, that's certain——She never flinches upon a winning Hand——Her Plate and Jewels walk To-morrow to replenish her Pocket—a Pox of Gaming, I say.

      [Exit.

      [Within.] Mr. Looseall's Man——

      4th Footm. Here—So-ho, who has stole my Flambeaux?

      [Within.] My Lady Umbray's Coach there—

      5th Footm. Hey, Will, pull up there.

      [Exeunt omnes.

      Enter Lady Reveller and Alpiew, her Woman.

      Lady. My Lady Raffle is horridly out of Humour at her ill Fortune, she lost 300l.

      Alp. She has generally ill Luck, yet her Inclination for Play is as strong as ever.——Did your Ladyship win or lose, Madam?

      Lady. I won about 50 Pieces—Pr'ythee, what shall we do, Alpiew? 'Tis a fine Morning, 'tis pity to go to Bed.

      Alp. What does your Ladyship think of a Walk in the Park?—The Park is pleasant in a Morning, the Air is so very sweet.

      Lady. I don't think so; the

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