The goodnatured man Author:Oliver Goldsmith Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: DRAMATIS PERSONS Mr. Honeywood Mr. Powell. Croaker Mr. Shuter. Lofty Mr. Woodward. Sir William Honeywood Mr. Clarke. Leontine Mr. Beusley. Jarv... more »is Mr. Dunstall. Butler Mr. Cushing. Bailiff Mr. R. Smith. Dubardieu Mr. Hultom. Postboy Mr. Quick. WOMEN Miss Richland Mrs. Bulkley. Olivia Mrs. Mattocks. Mrs. Croaker Mrs. Pitt. Garnet Mrs. Green. Landlady Mrs. White- Scene — London THE GOOD-NATURED MAN ACT THE FIRST Scene, An Apartment In Young Honeywood's House. Enter Sir William Honeywood and Jarvis. Sir William. Good Jarvis, make no apologies for this honest bluntness. Fidelity like yours is the best excuse for every freedom. Jarvis. I can't help being blunt, and being very angry, too, when I hear you talk of disinheriting so good, so worthy a young gentleman as your nephew, my master. All the world loves him.1 Sir William. Say rather, that he loves all the world; that is his fault. Jarvis. I am sure there is no part of it more dear to him than you are, though he has not seen you since he was a child. Sir William. What signifies this affection to me, or how can I be proud of a place in a heart where every sharper and coxcomb find an easy entrance ? Jarvis. I grant you that he is rather too good- natured ; that he's too much every man's man ; that he laughs this minute with one, and cries the next with another; but whose instructions may he thank for all this? Sir William. Not mine, sure? My letters to himduring my employment in Italy taught him only that philosophy which might prevent, not defend, his errors. 1 All the world loves him : In Mr. Burchell's account of the character of Sir William Thornhill in The Vicar of Wake- field (chap, iii), similar sentiments are expressed. Jarvis. Faith, begging...« less