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The three sources for the play are: _The Devil Is an Ass_ (1616) by Jonson; _L'Etourdi_ (1658) by Molière; and _Sir Martin Mar-all or The Feigned Innocence_ (1667) by Dryden.
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From _The Devil Is an Ass_, Mrs. Centlivre borrowed minor details and two episodes, one of them the amusing dumb scene.
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Shou'd I denounce our Author's fate to Day, To cry down Prophecies, you'd damn the Play: Yet Whims like these have sometimes made you Laugh; 'Tis Tattling all, like _Isaac Bickerstaff_.
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Since War, and Places claim the Bards that write, Be kind, and bear a Woman's Treat to-Night; Let your Indulgence all her Fears allay, And none but Woman-Haters damn this Play.
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_Cha._ What _Marplot_, no no, he's my Instrument; there's a thousand Conveniences in him, he'll lend me his Money when he has any, run of my Errands and be proud on't; in short, he'll Pimp for me, Lye for me, Drink for me, do any thing but Fight for me, and that I trust to my own Arm for.
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he is a covetous, cheating, sanctify'd Curmudgeon; that Sir _Francis Gripe_ is a damn'd old-- _Char._ I suppose, Friend, you forget that he is my Father-- _Marpl._ I ask your Pardon, _Charles_, but it is for your sake I hate him.
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I can but Laugh, ha, ha, to think how damn'd Mad he'll be when he finds he has given his Money away for a a Dumb Show.
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Sir _Fran._ From which you wou'd infer, Sir, that Gaming, Whoring, and the Pox, are Requisits to a Gentleman.
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(_Exit, hastily._ Sir _Fran._ What is the Fellow distracted?--Desire Sir _George_ to walk up--Now for a Tryal of Skill that will make me Happy, and him a Fool: Ha, ha, ha, in my Mind he looks like an Ass already.
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(_Exit._ Sir _Jeal._ This Fellow has the Officious Leer of a Pimp; and I half suspect a Design, but I'll be upon them before they think on me, I warrant 'em.
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Sir _Geo._ Impossible, without he huffs the Lady, and makes Love to Sir _Francis_.
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That Wench may be a Slut, and instead of guarding my Honour, betray it; I'll find it out I'm resolv'd; who's there?
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Sir _Fran._ No, no, Hussy; you have the Green Pip already, I'll have no more Apothecary's Bills.
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(_Aside_ Sir _Jeal._ Did you ever see such a perverse Slut: Off I say Mr. _Meanwell_ pray help me a little.
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_Enter Servant and _Jealous_._ Sir _Jeal._ What is your earnest Business, Blockhead, that you must speak with me before the Ceremony's past?