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Identifier: deviltopayorwive1748coff (find matches)
Title: The devil to pay: or, The wives metamorphos'd: An opera.
Year: 1748 (1740s)
Authors: Coffey, Charles, d. 1745, librettist
Subjects: Operas
Publisher: London: J. Watts
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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jie and come away:Nor Moonj nor Stars afford their Light,But all is wrapt in gloomy Night:Both,Men andBeafts to Reft incline,And all things favour my Defign* Spirits. (Within.) Say, Mafter, what is to be done? Do&. My ftricl Commands be fur e attend, For ere this Night jhall have an end, You muft this Coblers Wife transform, And to the Knight9 s the like perform: With all your moft fpecifick Charms, Convey each Wife to different Arms; Let the Delufion befoftrong, That none may know the Right from Wrong.^ All this we will with Care perform,c In Thunder, Lightning, and a Storm. (Thunder* (Exeunt. SCENE changes to the Cobkrs Houfe. Jobfon atwork. The Bed in view. Job. What Devil has been abroad To-night? I never heardfuch Claps of Thunder in my Life. I thought my little Hovelwould have flown away; but now all is clear again, and a fineStar-light Morning it is. Ill fettle myfelf to Work, They fayWinters Thunder is Summers Wonder. AI R 14 The Devil to Payy Or$ A I R IX. Charming Sally.
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Of all the Trades from Eafl to Wefl^ The robler*s paf contending^Is like in time to prove the befly TVhich evry Day is mending.How great his Praife who can amend The Soals of all his Neighbours,Nor is unmindful of his End^ But to his Lafiflill labours. Lady. Heyday! what impudent Ballad-fmging Rogue is that,who dares wake me out of my Sleep ? Til have you flead, youRafcal. Job. What-a-pox, does (he talk in her Sleep? or is fhe drunkftill? (Singh A I R The Whes Metamorpbosd. AIR X. Now ponder well, ye Parents dear.

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  • booksubject:Operas
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  • bookcontributor:Harold_B__Lee_Library
  • booksponsor:Brigham_Young_University
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