The Rivals Flashcards
Fag The cause of all this L O V E, love…
…has been a masqueraded ever since the days of Jupiter
Fag a lady who likes him…
…better as a half-pay Ensign
Fag I believe she owns…
…half the stocks
Fag she could pay off the national debt…
…as easily as I could pay my washerwoman!
Fag she has a lapdog that eats…
…out of gold, she feeds her parrot with small pearls
Coachman well I wish they were at once…
…harnessed together in matrimony
Fag none of the London whips…
…of any degree of ton wear wigs now
L let me impart to you…
…some of my distress
L since she has discovered her own…
…frailty, she is become more suspicious of mine
L we had never had a quarrel, and…
…somehow, I was afraid he would never give me the opportunity
L charged him with his falsehood…
…put myself in a violent passion, and vowed I’d never see him more
L I intended only to have teased him…
…three days and a half, and now I’ve lost him forever
L I lose my fortune or I marry without my…
…aunt’s consent, till of age; want that is what I have determined to do ever since I knew the penalty
J this is…
…caprice
L you are your own mistress…
…though under the protection of Sir Anthony
L been a slave to the caprice..
…the whim, the the jealousy of this ungrateful Faulkland
J he is too proud…
…too noble to be jealous
J unused…
…to the fropperies of love
J his affection is…
….ardent and sincere
J he expects every thought and…
…emotion of his mistress to move in unison with his
J he still suspects that he is..
…not loved enough
J I have learned to think myself a debtor…
…for these imperfections which arise from the ardour of his attachment
L obligation! Why…
…a water spaniel would have done as much
L fling peregine pickle under…
…the toilet throw
L put the man of…
…feeling into your pocket
M there sits a deliberate…
…simpleton who wants to disgrace her family and lavish herself on a fellow not worth a shilling
A this comes of…
…her reading!
M ‘tis safest in matrimony…
…to begin with a little aversion
A all this is a natural…
…consequence of teaching girls to read
A a circulating library in a town…
…is an evergreen tree of diabolical knowledge
M I would by no means wish a daughter…
…of mine to be a progeny of learning
M I don’t think so much learning…
…becomes a young woman
M to a boarding school…
…in order to learn a little ingenuity and artifice
M above all, sir Anthony…
…she should be a mistress of orthodoxy
M she might not misspell, and…
…mispronounce words so shamefully as girls usually do
A jack knows that the…
…least demur puts me in a frenzy directly
A take my advice…
…keep a tight hand
M the girl is such…
…a simpleton
Lucy let girls in my station be…
…as fond as they please of appearing expert, and knowing in their trusts
Lucy commend me to a…
…mask of silliness, and a pair of sharp eyes for my own interest under it
Fag a lie is nothing…
…unless one supports it
Fag it hurts one’s conscience…
…to be found out
Jack what, and lose…
…two thirds of her fortune?
F propose to the aunt in…
…your own character
Jack I am by no means certain that she would take me…
…with the impediment of our friend’s consent, a regular humdrum wedding, and the reversion of good fortune on my side
Jack I must prepare her gradually…
…for the discovery and make myself necessary to her before I risk it
Jack you are the most teasing…
…captious, incorrigible lover!
Jack do love like…
…a man
Jack yet do I carry everywhere with me…
…such a confounded farrago of doubts, fears, hopes, wishes (?)
F your heart and soul are not…
…like mine, fixed immutably on one subject
F I have set my sum of happiness…
…on this cast, and not to succeed, were to be stripped of all
J what grounds for apprehension…
…can your whimsical brain conjure up at present?
F are there not…
…a thousand!
F I fear for her…
…spirits, her health, her life!
F if it rains, some shower may even then…
…have chilled her delicate frame!
F if the wind be keen, some rude blast…
…may have affected her!
F the heat of noon, the dews of the evening…
…may endanger the life of her, for whom only I value mine
Jack my other…
…self
Jack you are indeed an…
…eccentric planet
F a little trifling indisposition…
…is not an unnatural consequence of absence from those we love
F there is an innate…
…levity in a woman that nothing can overcome
F Fool! Fool that I am…
…to fix all my happiness on such a trifler!
F she thrives in…
…my absence
F I have been anxious, silent, pensive…
…sedentary, my days have been hours of care, my nights of watchfulness
F Captain Absolute and Ensign Beverly…
…are one and the same person
F a minuet i could have…
…forgiven. “But country-dances!”
Acres jealous of me…
…that’s a good joke
Jack that sprightly grace and insinuating manner of yours…
…will do some mischief among the girls here
Jack an odd kind of…
…new method of swearing
A it is my wish, while yet I live to have…
…my boy, make some figure in the world
A I have resolved therefore, to fix you at…
…once in a noble independence
A ay, a wife, why…
…did I not mention her before?
A the independence I was talking of…
…is by marriage
A the fortune is saddled…
…with a wife, but I suppose that makes no difference
Jack you talked to me of independence…
….and fortune, but not a world of a wife
A why, what difference…
…does that make?
A if you have the estate…
…you must take it with the livestock on it, as it stands
Jack this is not very reasonable…
…to summon my affections for a lady I know nothing of
A Tis more unreasonable in you…
…to object to a lady you know nothing of
Jack my inclinations are fixed on another…
…and my heart is engaged to an angel
A business prevents…
…its waiting on her
A I have been cool…
…quite cool; but take care
A damn me! If I ever…
…call you Jack again while I live!
Jack promise to link myself…
…to some mass of ugliness (?)
A the lady shall be…
…as ugly as I choose
A she shall have a hump…
…on each shoulder; she shall be as crooked as the crescent
A she shall have skin…
…like a mummy and the beard of a jew
A yet I will make you oggle her all day…
…and sit up all night to write sonnets on her beauty
Jack this is reason and…
…moderation indeed
A don’t enter the same…
…hemisphere with me!
A don’t dare breathe the same air, or use…
…the same light with me, but get an atmosphere and sun of your own!
A I’ll strip you of…
…your commission
A I’ll disown you, I’ll…
…disinherit you, I’ll unget you!
Jack I wonder what old, wealthy…
…hag he wants to bistow on me
Lucy I shall not enter his name…
…till my purse has received notice in form
Lucy I have a little scruple of conscience…
…from this deceit though I should not be paid so well
T she’s quite the queen…
…of the dictionary!
Lucy a lady of…
…experience
Lucy I thought you weren’t rich…
…enough to be so nice!
T I am so poor that I can’t…
…Afford to do a dirty action
T if I did not want money, I’d steal your…
…mistress and her fortune with a great deal of pleasure
T modesty is a quality in a woman…
…more praised by a woman than liked
Fag a little less simplicity…
…with a grain or two more sincerity
Fag you play…
…false with us
Jack my father wants to force me…
….to marry the very girl I am plotting to run away with
A I’ll love these fifty…
…years to plague him
Jack an obstinate, passionate…
…self-willed boy! Who can he take after?
A I never will see him…
…more. Never, never, never, never.
Jack to acknowledge my error and…
…submit entirely to your will
Jack now you talk sense…
…absolute sense, I never heard anything more sensible in my life
A confound you! You shall be…
…Jack again!
A such eyes! Such eyes!…
…so innocently wild!
A her cheeks! Her cheeks!…
…Jack!
A her lips! O, Jack, lips…
…smiling at their own discretion
A Jack, her neck!…
…o Jack!
A when I was of your age, such a….
…description would have made me fly like a rocket!
A when I ran away with your mother…
…I would not have touched anything old or ugly to gain an empire!
Jack not that I think a woman the worse….
…for being handsome
F how mean does this captious, unsatisfied…
…temper of mine appear to my cooler judgement!
F whom I think I love…
…beyond my life
F I am conscious of it…
…yet I cannot correct myself!
F the mutual year that steals down the cheek of…
…parting lovers is a compact, that no smile shall live there till they meet again
F every mirthful moment in…
…your absence is a treason to constancy
J if I ever seemed sad…
…it were to make malice triumph
J I have often dressed…
…sorrow in smiles
F I am a…
…brute
F perhaps what you have mistaken for love…
…is but a warm effusion of a too thankful heart
F to regard me of any quality of mind…
…or understanding, were only to esteem me
F I have often wished myself deformed…
…to be convinced that I owed no obligation there for any part of your affection
J I see you are..
…determined to be unkind
F you raise ideas that…
…feed and justify my doubts
F so hasty Julia!…
…so anxious to be free!
F if your love were fixed and ardent, you….
…would not lose your hold, even though I wished it!
J o, you torture…
…me to the heart!
F if I loved you less…
…i should never give you an uneasy moment
F women are not used to…
…weigh and separate the motives of their affections
F when love receives such countenance from…
…prudence, nice minds will be suspicious of its birth
J I have given you…
…no cause for this
F what a brute I am..
…to use her thus
F how little resolution there is…
…in w woman! How a few soft words can turn them
F this is not steadiness…
…but obstinacy
F ‘twas barbarous and…
…unmanly
F and be linked instead to some…
…unique virago, whose growing passions and long hoarded spleen shall make me curse my folly half the day and all the night
M a fee gentleman nowadays…
…know how to value the ineffectual qualities in a woman!
M few think how a little knowledge…
…becomes a young gentlewoman!
M men have no sense…
…now but for the worthless flower of beauty!
Jack I fear our ladies should share the blame….
…they think our admiration of beauty so great, and that knowledge in them would be so superfluous
Jack like garden trees they…
….seldom show fruit, till time has robbed them of the more specious blossom
Jack few, like Mrs malaprop…
…and the Orange tree are rich in both
M sir, you overpower…
…me with good breeding
M he is the very…
…pine-apple of politeness
Jack as for the old weather-beaten…
…she dragon that guards you
Jack ridiculous vanity, which makes her…
…dress up her coarse features, and deck her dull chat with words which she don’t understand
Jack lay her open to the grossest…
…deceptions from flattery and pretended admiration, an impudent coxcomb!
Jack I, just in the nick, will have…
…the fellow laid by the heels, and fairly contrive to carry her off on his stead
M there is a decorum…
…in these matters
M I’ll make her behave…
…as becomes a young woman
Jack one would think now that I might throw off all disguise at once….
…and seize my prize with security but such is Lydia’s caprice, that to undeceive her were to probably lose her
L surely nothing can be more dreadful than to…
…be obliged to listen to the loathsome addresses of a stranger to ones heart
L I am so astonished! And so terrified!…
…and so overjoyed!
L I can’t forbear laughing to think how…
….her sagacity is overreached
Jack my condescending angel…
…to fix the time when I may rescue her from undeserving prosecution
L will you then, Beverly, consent to forfeit…
…that portion of my paltry wealth? That burden on the wings of love?
L how charming will…
…poverty be with him!
Jack love shall be our…
…idol and support!
Jack proud of calamity, we will enjoy…
…the wreck of wealth; while the surrounding gloom of adversity shall make the flame of our pure love show doubly bright
Jack I would fling all goods of fortune from me…
…with a prodigal hand, to enjoy the scene where I might clasp my Lydia to my bosom
M you ought to know that….
…lying don’t become a young woman!
Acres dress does make…
…a difference
Acres and receive the answer that the…
…lady is to be otherwise disposed of
Acres but he has given…
…me no provocation
Trigger can a man vomit a more heinous offence…
…against another than to fall in love with the same woman?
Trigger it is the most unpardonable…
…breach of friendship
T what the devil signifies right…
…when your honour is concerned?
Acres I certainly to feel a kind of….
…valour rising as if it were a kind of courage
T for though the mansion-house and dirty acres have slipped through…
…my fingers, I thank heaven our honour and family pictures are as fresh as ever
A we fight to prevent…
…any misunderstanding
T let your courage be as keen, but at the…
…same time as polished as your sword
A I must be very careful…
…of my honour!
A no gentleman will ever risk…
…the loss of his honour
David it would be but civil in honour…
…never to risk the loss of a gentleman
David this honour seems to be…
…a marvellous false friend
David well my honour makes me…
…quarrel with another gentleman if my acquaintance
David I kill him…
…‘pray who gets the profit of it? Why, my honour’
David I go to the worms….
…and my honour whips over to my enemy
Acres your honour follows you…
…to the grave
David that’s just the place…
…I could make a shift do without it
Acres what, shall I disgrace…
…my ancestors?
Acres David think what it would…
…be to disgrace my ancestors!
David the surest way of not disgracing them is to…
…keep as long as you can out of their company
Acres do tell him I am…
…a devil of a fellow will you
Acres so tell him I generally kill…
…a man a week
Acres that you never saw me in such…
…a rage before, a most devouring rage
Acres a determined…
….dog
M I insist on your behaving…
…as becomes a young woman
M show your good breeding at least…
…though you have not forgot your duty
A come to mitigate the frowns…
…of unrelenting beauty
A miss Languish has reflected on the…
…worth of this gentleman
Jack ah, Tis…
…all over
A her brain is…
…turned by reading
L so there will be no…
…elopement after all
Jack which he now hopes to enjoy in a….
…more elevated character
Jack a little wealth and…
….comfort may be endured after all
L you have been treating me like…
…a child! Humouring my romance! And laughing, I suppose, at your success
L flattered myself…
…that I should outwit and incense them all
L my hopes are to be crushed….
….at once by my aunts consent and approbation
Jack to be sure, people will say that miss don’t…
…know her own mind but never mind that!
Jack that the gentleman grew tired…
…of the lady and forsook her but don’t let that fret you
A poor little Lydia…
…why, you’ve frightened her
Jack I did not think her romance…
…could have made her so damned absurd either
F I should have thought her duty and inclination…
….would now have pointed to the same object
J when her love eye was fixed on t’other…
…her eye of duty was finely obliqued
Jack but when duty bid her point…
…that in the same way, off t’other turned on a swivel
F my file tormenting temper has made…
…me treat her so cruelly
F oh how I suffer…
…for my folly
Jack confound your…
…buts!
Jack but you immediately damn…
…it with a but!
F women should not sue for…
…reconciliation, that should always come from us
F they should retain…
…their coldness till wooed to unkindness
Jack a captious sceptic in love, a slave to fretfulness….
…and whim, who has no difficulties but of his own creating, is a subject more fit for ridicule than compassion
Jack a poor, industrious devil like…
…me, who have toiled and drudged and plotted to gain my ends
F I would not change this too…
…exquisite nicety for the gross content which he tramples on the thorns of love!
F I’ll use it as the touchstone…
…of Julia’s sincerity and disinterestedness
F if her love prove pure and sterling ore…
…my name will rest on it with honour
F and once I’ve stamped it there…
…I lay aside my doubts forever!
F t’will be best to leave her as a…
…toy for some less cautious fool to sigh for
J how many unhappy moments…
…how many tears you have cost me
J my soul is oppressed with sorrow…
…at the nature of your misfortune
J my heart has long…
…known no other guardian
J I now entrust my…
…person to your honour and we will fly together
F I am bankrupt…
…in gratitude
J I have loved you…
…for yourself
J their take I have will be sufficient…
…to support us; and exile never should be splendid
F my wounded pride may…
…increase the natural fretfulness of my temper
J may teach you to…
…bear the evils of your fortune
F with this useless device I…
…throw away all my doubts
F this last unworthy effect of…
…my restless, unsatisfied disposition
F expiate my past…
…folly by years of tender adoration
J cruel…
…doubts
J that has wrung…
…my heart
J how you have trifled…
…with my sincerity
J as cruel as…
…unnecessary
J I now see it is not in your…
…nature to be content or confident in love
J I had hopes that my persevering attention….
…and unreproaching kindness, might in fact in time reform your temper
J I shall pay for your…
…happiness with the truest sincerity
J and the dearest blessing I can ask of…
…heaven to send you will be to charm you from that unhappy temper
J which alone has prevented…
…the performance of our solemn engagement
F she’s gone…
…forever
F fool! Dolt!…
…barbarian!
F cursed as I am with more…
…imperfections than my fellow wretches
F like a ruffian…
…I have driven her from my side
F kind fortune sent a heaven-gifted…
…cherub to my aid
F whose influence, like the moon’s, acting….
…on men of dull souls makes idiots of them
F but veering subtler spirits…
…betrays their course and urges sensibility to madness!
L whatever vexations you may…
…have, i can assure you mine surpass them
J had young absolute been the person you took him for, I should not have…
…accepted your confidence on the subject without a serious endeavour to counteract your caprice
L the prettiest distress…
…imaginable
L to find myself made a…
…mere Smithfield bargain
L to go simpering…
…up the alter
L in the coldest January, and found him…
…in the garden, stuck like a dripping statue
L he shivering with cold…
…and I with apprehension
L that was something like…
…being in love
J not to let a man, who love you with…
…sincerity, suffer that unhappiness from your caprice
J which I know to well…
…caprice can inflict
J Lydia is a romantic, a devilish romantic….
…and very absurd of course
T that is a very pretty distance…
…a pretty gentleman’s distance
T there is no merit in…
…killing him so near
Acres I’ll stand…
…edge ways
Acres yes my valour…
…is certainly going!
T mr Acres, your valour…
…has oozed away with a vengeance!
Acres yes, my valour…
…is certainly going
M men are all…
…barbarians
F hope is the child…
…of penitence
A the delicacy and warmth…
…of his affection for you
T no dissatisfied…
…person
F the errors of…
…an ill-directed imagination
F tortured the…
…heart he ought to have adored
Jack the bitters…
…as well as the sweets of love
J let us deny its pencil…
….those colours which are too bright to be lasting
J when hearts deserving happiness would…
…unite their fortunes, virtue would crown them with an unfading garland of modest, hurtless flowers
J but ill-judging passion will force the gaudier rose…
…into the wreath, whose thorn offends them, when it’s leaves are dropped!
F when delicate souls are separated…
…there is not a feature in the sky, not a movement of the elements, not an aspiration of breeze but hints some cause for a lovers apprehension
