’By Heaven, &c.

Pag. 24.  ’By Heaven it becomes you.

Pag. 27.  ’The Devil take me.

Pag. 31.  ’Lightning blast him!  Thunder rivet him to the Earth!  That
Vulture, Conscience, prey upon his Heart, and rack him to Despair!

Pag. 32.  ’Grant me, ye Powers, one lucky Hint for Mischief.

Pag. 43.  ’Then damn me, if I don’t, &c.

Pag. 47.  ’Rot me and be damn’d.

Pag. 52.  ’By Heaven, &c.

Pag. 60.  ’Well, the Devil take me.

In the ’Different Widows’.

Pag. 1.  ’Damn’d Lies, by Jupiter and Juno, and the rest of the Heathen Gods and Goddesses; for I remember I paid two Guinea’s for swearing Christian Oaths last Night.

Pag. 2.  ’Pox take him.  Pag. 24.  ’Ye immortal Gods, who the Devil am I?

Pag. 61.  ’May the Devil, Curses, Plagues and Disappointments light upon you.

In the ’Fickle Shepherdess’.

Pag. 17.  ’Bid Charon instantly prepare his Boat, I’d row to Hell.

Ibid.  ’O Ceres, can thy all-seeing Eye behold this Object, and yet restrain thy Pity?

Pag. 32.  ’Fly hence to Hell; there hide thy Head lower than Darkness.  Wou’d thou hadst been acting Incest, Murder, Witchcraft, when thou cam’st to pray:  Thou hadst in any thing sinn’d less than in this Devotion.

Pag. 36.  ’Where Love’s blind, God sends forth continual Arrows.

Pag. 42. ’Ceres, to whom we all things owe.

Pag. 46.  ’Almighty Ceres.

In the Play called, ’Marry or do Worse, 1704’.

Pag. 4.  ’Pox on me.  Rot the World.

Pag. 6.  ’Pox on him.

Pag. 8.  ’A Plague on her.

’The Devil take you for a Witch.  The Devil take you for a Fool.

Pag. 12.  ’No Matrimony; the Devil danced at the first Wedding there was, and Cuckoldom has been in Fashion ever since.

’The Devil take you for me.

Pag. 12 & 13.  ’The Devil’s in’t if he been’t fit for Heaven, when my Master has writ Cuckoldom there.

’The Devil take me &c.

Pag. 18.  ’A Plague choak you,

Pag. 21.  ’A smart Jade by Heaven.

Pag. 33.  ’Now the Devil take him &c.

Pag. 37.  ’A Plague on my Master.

Pag. 44.  ’The Devil take me, &c.

Pag. 47.  ’I pity him, and yet a Pox on him too.

Pag. 51.  ’That dear damn’d Virtue of hers tempts me strangely.

Pag. 54.  ’The Devil take me, &c.

Pag. 64.  ’By Heaven.

It must be again remembred, that the detestable lewd Expressions contained in the abovementioned Plays, which seem to be the most pernicious part of our Comedies, are not here recited, least they should debauch the Minds and corrupt the Manners of the Reader, and do the same Mischief, in some degree, as they do in the greatest when used upon the Stage, tho’ mentioned with never so great Indignation.  And it must be likewise taken notice of, that these Instances of the prophane Language of Plays, which the good Christian will read with Horror, would not have been put together, and laid before the World, had not the Incorrigibleness of the Players made it necessary for the Ends abovementioned.