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ACT I

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Notes:

A Bibliography for Students of John Gay's Life, Work, and Influence

A Selection of Useful Works:

Recent scholarship (with acknowledgement to the MLA CD-ROM):

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Scene 9.

POLLY.

All this Wheedling of Lucy cannot be for nothing.—At this time too! when I know she hates me!—The Dissembling of a Woman is always the Forerunner of Mischief.—By pouring Strong-Waters down my Throat, she thinks to pump some Secrets out of me,—I'll be upon my Guard, and won't taste a Drop of her Liquor, I'm resolv'd.