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The Merchant

Colman, George (1732-1794)
  
THE MERCHANT.
  
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SCENE II.
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ACT II.
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SCENE I.
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SCENE II.
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SCENE III.
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SCENE IV.
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SCENE V.
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SCENE VI.
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ACT III.
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SCENE IV.
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SCENE V.
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SCENE VI.
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ACT IV.
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SCENE III.
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SCENE IV.
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SCENE V.
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SCENE VI.
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SCENE VII.
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SCENE VIII.
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ACT V.
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SCENE VIII.

SYRA
alone.
Now, by my troth, the poor unhappy women
Are much more hardly dealt with than the men.
For if a husband brings a mistress home,
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Tho' the wife finds her under her own roof,
There is no law that punishes the man:
But catch her rambling with gallants abroad,
The husband truly sues for a divorce.
Would the same law held good for man and wife!
For since a wife, if she's an honest woman,
Will be contented with her husband; why,
Should not the husband also with his wife?
I would fain have fair play between them both;
And then, I warrant you, if ev'ry husband,
Prov'd a sly wencher, could but be divorc'd
As well as wanton wives, we soon should see
More widowers, than there are widows now.

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