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Excerpt: ... the physician for a remedy against the spleen. 150 Scrub. Oh la! Oh la! a footman have the spleen! Mrs. Sul. I thought that distemper had been only proper to people of quality? Arch. Madam, like all other fashions it wears Out, and so descends to their servants; though in a great many of us, I believe, it proceeds from some melancholy particles in the blood, occasioned by the stagnation of wages. Dor. Aside to Mrs. Sullen. How affectedly the fello talks!
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Review:
One of the last of the Restoration comedies, it is, nonetheless, as frothy as deliciously frothy as anything in the canon. --Time Out
About the Author:
Ann Blake is Honorary Fellow at the School of Communication, Arts and Critical Enquiry, La Trobe University, Victoria, Australia
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- PublisherRareBooksClub.com
- Publication date2013
- ISBN 10 1236736230
- ISBN 13 9781236736239
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages34
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