A dialogue suppos'd to be between a eunuch boy, and a virgin Sung by Bowen and Mrs. Cross in a new play call'd Ibrahim. Sett to musick by Mr. Daniel Purcell. Purcell, Daniel, 1660?-1717. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A56286 of text R219613 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing P4212AB). Textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. The text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with MorphAdorner. The annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). Textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. This text has not been fully proofread Approx. 3 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 3 1-bit group-IV TIFF page images. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2018 A56286 Wing P4212AB ESTC R219613 99831072 99831072 35534 2248497131

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 Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 2, no. A56286) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 35534) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 2038:37) A dialogue suppos'd to be between a eunuch boy, and a virgin Sung by Bowen and Mrs. Cross in a new play call'd Ibrahim. Sett to musick by Mr. Daniel Purcell. Purcell, Daniel, 1660?-1717. 4 p. : music printed for Henry Playford, and sold at his shop in the Temple-Change, Fleetstreet, [London : 1696] Imprint from colophon. Reproduction of the original in the Harvard University Library. eng Songs, English -- Early works to 1800. eebo A dialogue suppos'd to be between a eunuch boy, and a virgin. Sung by Bowen and Mrs. Cross in a new play call'd Ibrahim. Sett to musick by Mr. Daniel Purcell, Daniel, 1696 4 576 0 0 0 190 0 0 32986.11 F The rate of 32986.11 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the F category of texts with 100 or more defects per 10,000 words. 2009-01 Assigned for keying and markup 2009-02 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2009-03 Sampled and proofread 2009-03 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2009-09 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
A Dialogue suppos'd to be between a Eunuch Boy , and a Virgin . Sung by Bowen and Mrs. Cross in a New Play call'd Ibrahim . Sett to Musick by Mr. Daniel Purcell . She.

FLy , fly from my sight , fly far a╌way , my scorn , my scorn thou 'lt on╌ly Purchase by thy stay ; a╌way , away , a╌way fond Fool , a╌way , a╌way , away , a╌way , fond Fool , a╌way .

He.

Dear , dear Angel , no , no , no , no , no , no , no , no , no , here on this place I 'le root╌ted grow ; those pretty , pretty , pretty , pretty Eyes have Charmd me so , I cannot , cannot stir , I cannot , cannot , cannot , cannot goe ; I cannot , cannot , cannot cannot stir , I cannot , cannot , cannot , cannot goe , I cannot , cannot , cannot , cannot goe .

She.

Thou silly , silly Creature be advis'd , and do not , do not stay to be despis'd ; by all , all , all my actions thou may'st see , my heart can spare no room for thee :

He.

why , why dost thou hate me ? ah ! confess , thou sweet dis╌poser of my Joys ?

She.

The Reason is , I on╌ly guess , by something in thy Face and Voice , that thou , that thou art not made like o╌ther Boys ;

He.

Why I can Kiss , and I can Play , and tell a thousand pret╌ty Tales , and I can Sing the live-long Day , if a╌ny other Talent fails , can Sing , can Sing the live-long Day , if a╌ny other Talent fails , can Sing , can Sing the live-long Day , if a╌ny other Talent fails .

She.

Boast not thy Musick , for I fear , that Sing╌ing gift has cost thee dear , each war╌bling Lin╌net on the Tree , has far a better , better , better Fate , a better Fate than thee ; for thy life happy pleasures prove , as they can Sing so they can Love .

He.

Why so can I ,

She.

No , no , no poor Boy ,

He.

why , why cannot I , why cannot I ,

She.

No , no , no poor Boy ;

He.

pray do but try ,

She.

No , no , no not I ; ( Pish ) ( Pish ) Oh fye ;

He.

pray do but try , do but try , do but try ,

She.

no , no not I ; ( Pish ) ( Pish ) Oh fye ;

He.

pray , pray do but try , do but try , do but try , do but try , pray , pray do but try ,

She.

no , no not I ;

He.

I know no reason , no rea╌son why , I know no reason , no rea╌son why .

She.

You know , you know , you know you lye .

London , Printed for Henry Playford , and sold at his Shop in the Temple-Change , Fleetstreet . 1696.