Busie

Busie old Emma - she may be unrulie but she's certainly no foole...

souf·flé 2006

How pleasant this answer was to Jane, it appears, because she no sooner gets out, but she runs to Goody Busie-body that hires out servants; where she makes no smal complaint of her Mistresses insulting spirit; and asks whether she knows not of a hire for her by some houskeeping Batchelor or Widower; because she understands the ordring of her work very well, is a special good Cook, and loves

The Ten Pleasures of Marriage and the Second Part, The Confession of the New Married Couple A. Marsh

Three of these proved very popular in her time and enjoyed a long stage history: _The Busie Body_ (1709); _The Wonder: A Woman Keeps a Secret_

The Busie Body Susanna Centlivre

Busie Body_ seems to have reached its greatest popularity in England in the middle and late eighteenth century and the early part of the nineteenth century.

The Busie Body Susanna Centlivre

Oxberry acting edition of 1819, says _The Busie Body_ has been acted a

The Busie Body Susanna Centlivre

But we will leave Jane and Peggy with their Widowers, and take a view what kind of a Pleasure of marriage that our Mistriss possesseth with her new Maid; for Goody Busie-body recommended her highly to be a very honest, vertuous Maid, of a good family, and gave her self security for her fidelity.

The Ten Pleasures of Marriage and the Second Part, The Confession of the New Married Couple A. Marsh

Busie Body_ a comedy of intrigue based on the theme and plot used by both Molière and Dryden, but she omitted the scandalous Restoration third plot which Dryden had added to Molière.

The Busie Body Susanna Centlivre

Goody Busie-body is presently ready, because she sees here is a means to earn double wages, the Maid must be provided with another service, and the Mistriss with another Maid; so she begins, like a Broker, to turn and wind it about every way to rid her self of the one, and then to recommend another in the place.

The Ten Pleasures of Marriage and the Second Part, The Confession of the New Married Couple A. Marsh

This scene, though a close imitation, seems more amusing in _The Busie Body_ than in Jonson's play, perhaps because the characters, especially Sir Francis Gripe and

The Busie Body Susanna Centlivre

I drew closer to Busie, and took hold of her hand.

Jewish Children 1859-1916 Sholem Aleichem 1887