# Miscellaneous Plays/The Country Inn Act 1

THE COUNTRY INN:
ACT I.
SCENE I. The kitchen of a Country Inn: David and Jenkins discovered sitting by the fire-side.
DAVID.
JENKINS.
DAVID.
JENKINS.
DAVID.
JENKINS.
DAVID. (very impatiently).
JENKINS.
DAVID.
JENKINS.
DAVID.
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DAVID.
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DAVID.
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DAVID.
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DAVID.
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DAVID.
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DAVID.
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DAVID.
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DAVID.
JENKINS.
DAVID.
JENKINS.
DAVID.
Enter Dolly.
DOLLY.
DAVID.
DOLLY.
DAVID.
"'Twas not that orient blush, that arm of snow, "That eye's celestial blue, which caus'd my woe, "'Twas thy exalted mind, my peace which stole, "And all thy moving sympathy of soul."
DOLLY.
DAVID.
"Give me the maid, whose bosom high
"Doth often heave the tender sigh; "Whose eye, suffus'd with tender care, "Doth often shed the soft luxurious tear."
DOLLY.
"All ye gentle christians who pass by, "Upon this dumb stone cast a pitying eye; "I pray you for yourselves, not me, bewail, "I on life's follies now have turned tail."
DAVID.
DOLLY (laughing in his face).
"I pray ye for yourselves bewail, "For I on life have turned tail."
(David takes up a stool and runs after her to cast it at her head.) O mercy! my head, my head!
JENKINS (preventing him).
DAVID.
Enter Landlady.
LANDLADY.
DAVID (still shaking his fist at Dolly).
LANDLADY.
DAVID.
LANDLADY.
DAVID.
LANDLADY.
Re-enter Dolly in a great hurry.
DOLLY.
LANDLADY.
(Exeunt Landlady and Dolly severally, in great haste.
DAVID.
(Exit grumbling.
Re-enter Landlady, shewing in Lady Goodbody, Miss Martin, and Hannah, followed by a Maid, carrying boxes, &c.
LANDLADY.
LADY GOODBODY.
MISS MARTIN.
LANDLADY.
LADY GOODBODY (to Maid).
HOPKINS.
LADY GOODBODY (to Landlady).
LANDLADY.
MISS MARTIN.
LADY GOODBODY.
LANDLADY.
MISS MARTIN.
LADY GOODBODY.
LANDLADY.
HANNAH (after gazing for a long time at the things ranged over the chimney).
LADY GOODBODY (to Hannah).
Enter Dolly.
DOLLY.
LADY GOODBODY.
DOLLY.
LADY GOODBODY.
(Exeunt Lady Goodbody, Miss Martin, and Hannah, Landlady conducting them.
Enter Will.
WILL.
DOLLY.
WILL.
DOLLY.
WILL.
DOLLY.
WILL.
DOLLY.
WILL.
DOLLY.
WILL.
SCENE II. A Parlour.
Enter Sir John Hazelwood and Worshipton.
SIR JOHN HAZELWOOD.
WORSHIPTON.
SIR JOHN HAZELWOOD.
WORSHIPTON.
SIR JOHN HAZELWOOD.
WORSHIPTON.
SIR JOHN HAZELWOOD.
WORSHIPTON.
SIR JOHN HAZELWOOD.
WORSHIPTON.
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SIR JOHN HAZELWOOD.
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SIR JOHN HAZELWOOD.
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SIR JOHN HAZELWOOD.
WORSHIPTON.
SIR JOHN HAZELWOOD.
WORSHIPTON.
SIR JOHN HAZELWOOD.
WORSHIPTON.
SIR JOHN HAZELWOOD.
WORSHIPTON (alone).
Enter Lady Goodbody, Miss Martin and Hannah.
LADY GOODBODY.
WORSHIPTON.
LADY GOODBODY.
WORSHIPTON.
MISS MARTIN.
WORSHIPTON.
MISS MARTIN.
LADY GOODBODY.
WORSHIPTON.
LADY GOODBODY.
WORSHIPTON.
LADY GOODBODY.
WORSHIPTON.
LADY GOODBODY (to Hannah).
HANNAH.
LADY GOODBODY.
HANNAH.
LADY GOODBODY.
Enter Sir John Hazelwood.
SIR JOHN HAZELWOOD.
LADY GOODBODY.
SIR JOHN HAZELWOOD.
LADY GOODBODY.
(Worshipton, who is about to present with much devotion a glove to Miss Martin, which she had dropped, lets it fall out of his hand, and retiring some paces back, stares with astonishment at Hannah.)
SIR JOHN HAZELWOOD (to Hannah).
LADY GOODBODY (aside to Hannah).
HANNAH (curtsying awkwardly).
MISS MARTIN (looking slyly at Worshipton).
WORSHIPTON (confusedly).
LADY GOODBODY.
WORSHIPTON (retreating from her).
LADY GOODBODY (following him with the phial).
WORSHIPTON (still retreating).
LADY GOODBODY (pressing it still more earnestly).
WORSHIPTON (defending himself vehemently).
SIR JOHN HAZELWOOD.
WORSHIPTON (returning).
LADY GOODBODY.
SIR JOHN HAZELWOOD.
LADY GOODBODY.
SIR JOHN HAZELWCOD.
LADY GOODBODY.
MISS MARTIN (aside to Lady Goodbody).
SIR JOHN HAZELWOOD.
LADY GOODBODY.
(Enter a Servant, announcing dinner.)
(To Miss Martin.) Go before, my dear, and place my chair as you know I like it. (Exit Miss Martin, followed by Sir John, leading out Lady Goodbody.)
WORSHIPTON (looking askance at Hannah, and then going up to her with an unwilling shrug).
(Exit, handing her out.
END OF THE FIRST ACT.