Classic Comedies Author:Oliver Goldsmith General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1885 Original Publisher: John B. Alden Subjects: English drama Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-... more »Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: Bob. -- Hang him, rook ! he ! why he has no more judgment than a malt-horse : By St. George, I wonder you'd lose a thought upon such an animal ; the most peremptory absurd clown of Christendom, this day, he is holden. 1 protest to you, as I am a gentleman and a soldier, 1 ne'er changed words with his like. By his discourse, he should eat nothing but hay: he was born for the manger, pannier, or pack-saddle. He has not so much as a good phrase in his belly, but all old iron, and rusty proverbs : a good commodity for some smith to make hobnails of. Mat. -- Ay, and he thinks to carry it away with his manhood still, where he comes : he brags he will give me the bastinado, as I hear. Bob. -- How ! he the bastinado ! how came he by that word, trow ? Mat. -- Nay, indeed, he said cudgel me ; I termed it so, for my more grace. Bob. -- That may be ; for I was sure it was none of his word: but when, when said he so ? Mat. -- Faith, yesterday they say; a young gallant, a friend of mine, told me so. Bob. -- By the foot of Phnraoh, an 'twere my case now, I should send him a chartel presently. The bastinado! a most proper and sufficient dependence, warranted by the great Caranza, Come hither, you shall chartel him; I'll show you a trick or two you shall kill him with at pleasure ; The first stoccata, if you will, by this air. Mat. -- Indeed, you have absolute knowledge in the mystery, 1 have heard, sir. Bob. -- Of whom, of whom, have you heard it, I beseech you ? Mat. -- Troth, I have heard it spoken of divers, that you have very rare, and un-in-one- b...« less