ABSTRACT
ACT I. SCENE I. Luckless’s room in Mrs. Moneywood’s house.
[Enter Mrs. Moneywood, Harriot, and Luckless]
MRS. MONEYWOOD. Never tell me, Mr. Luckless, of your play, and your play – I say, I must be paid. I would no more depend on a benefit-night of an un-acted play, than I wou’d on a benefitticket in an un-drawn lottery. – Cou’d I have guess’d that I had a poet in my house! Cou’d I have look’d for a poet under lac’d cloaths!
