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Book The Works of Aphra Behn Sir Patient Fancy Amorous prince Widow Ranter Younger brother

Download or read book The Works of Aphra Behn Sir Patient Fancy Amorous prince Widow Ranter Younger brother written by Aphra Behn and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The works of Aphra Behn

Download or read book The works of Aphra Behn written by Aphra Behn and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Works of Aphra Behn Vol 4 Classic Reprint

Download or read book The Works of Aphra Behn Vol 4 Classic Reprint written by Aphra Behn and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-04 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Works of Aphra Behn, Vol. 4 Sir Patient, who surprises his lady writing a love-letter, which she turns off by appending Isabella's name thereto, is so overwhelmed with her seeming affection and care for his family that he presents her with eight thousand pounds in gold and silver, and resolves to marry his daughter to Fainlove (Wittmore) without any further delay. But whilst he is gone down to prayers and Lucia is entertaining her lover, the old nurse informs him that his little daughter Fanny has long been privy to an intrigue between Knowell and Isabella, whereupon, in great perturbation, he rushes upstairs again to consult with his wife, who hurries Wittmore under the bed. Sir Patient, however, warmed with cordials which he quaffs to revive his drooping spirits, does not offer to quit the chamber, but lies down on the bed, and the gallant is only enabled to slip out unobserved after several accidents each of which nearly betrays his presence. Upon the marriage morning Isabella in a private interview rejects her pseudo-suitor with scorn and contumely, whereat Knowell, who has of intent been listening, reveals to her that it is his friend Wittmore and no real lover who is seemingly courting her, and with his help, whilst Sir Patient is occupied with a consultation of doctors (amongst whom Sir Credulous appears disguised as a learned member of the faculty), Isabella and Knowell are securely married. Lady Knowell, who has feigned a liking for Leander, generously gives him to Lucretia, Sir Patient's attention being still engrossed by the physicians who assemble in great force. Soon after, at Leander's instigation, in order to test his wife, Sir Patient feigns to be dead of a sudden apoplexy, and for a few moments, whilst others are present, Lucia laments him with many plaints and tears, but immediately changes when she is left alone with Wittmore. The lovers' plans, however, are overheard by the husband, who promptly confronts his wife with her duplicity. Amazed and confounded indeed, he forgives Leander and his daughter for marrying contrary to his former wishes; and when Lucia coolly announces her intention to play the hypocrite and puritan no more, but simply to enjoy herself with the moneys he has settled on her without let or proviso, he humorously declares he will for his part also drop the prig and canter, and turn town gallant and spark. In spite of Mrs. Behn's placid assertion in her address 'To the Reader' that she has only taken 'but a very bare hint' from a foreign source, Le Malade Imaginaire, the critics who cried out that Sir Patient Fancy 'was made out of at least four French plays' are patently right. Sir Patient is, of course, Argan throughout and in detail; moreover, in the scene where the old alderman feigns death, there is very copious and obvious borrowing from Act iii of Le Malade Imaginaire. Some of the doctors' lingo also comes from the third and final interlude of Moliere's comedy, whilst the idea of the medical consultation is pilfered from L'Amour Medecin, Act ii, II. Sir Credulous Easy is Monsieur de Porceaugnac, but his first entrance is taken wholesale from Brome's The Damoiselle; or, The New Ordinary (8vo, 1653), Act ii, I, where Amphilus and Trebasco discourse exactly as do Curry and his master. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com

Book Sir Patient Fancy The Amorous Prince The Widow Ranter The Younger Brother

Download or read book Sir Patient Fancy The Amorous Prince The Widow Ranter The Younger Brother written by Aphra Behn and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Sir Patient Fancy Amorous prince Widow Ranter Younger brother

Download or read book Sir Patient Fancy Amorous prince Widow Ranter Younger brother written by Aphra Behn and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Works of Aphra Behn The adventures of the black lady The court of the King of Bantam The unfortunate happy lady The fair jilt Oroonoko or The royal slave Agnes de Castro The history of the nun or The fair vow breaker The nun or The perjur d beauty The lucky mistake The unfortunate bride or The blind lady a beauty The dumb virgin or The force of imagination

Download or read book The Works of Aphra Behn The adventures of the black lady The court of the King of Bantam The unfortunate happy lady The fair jilt Oroonoko or The royal slave Agnes de Castro The history of the nun or The fair vow breaker The nun or The perjur d beauty The lucky mistake The unfortunate bride or The blind lady a beauty The dumb virgin or The force of imagination written by Aphra Behn and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Works of Aphra Behn Introduction by M Summers The rover or The banish d cavaliers The Dutch lover The Round heads or The good old cause

Download or read book The Works of Aphra Behn Introduction by M Summers The rover or The banish d cavaliers The Dutch lover The Round heads or The good old cause written by Aphra Behn and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Works of Aphra Behn The town fop or Sir Timothy Tawdrey The false count or A new way to play and old game The lucky chance or An alderman s bargain The forc d marriage or The jealous bridegroom The emperor of the moon

Download or read book The Works of Aphra Behn The town fop or Sir Timothy Tawdrey The false count or A new way to play and old game The lucky chance or An alderman s bargain The forc d marriage or The jealous bridegroom The emperor of the moon written by Aphra Behn and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Works of Aphra Behn Poems

Download or read book The Works of Aphra Behn Poems written by Aphra Behn and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Works of Aphra Behn Abdelazer or The Moor s revenge The young king or The mistake The city heiress or Sir Timothy Treat All The feign d curtezans or A night s intrigue

Download or read book The Works of Aphra Behn Abdelazer or The Moor s revenge The young king or The mistake The city heiress or Sir Timothy Treat All The feign d curtezans or A night s intrigue written by Aphra Behn and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: