Word: lovewit
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...plot in the main is as follows: Lovewit, after the death of his wife, retires to the country, leaving his house in the care of Jeremy, his servant. Jeremy forms a partnership with Subtle, a sham alchemist, and setting up furnaces and apparatus in Lovewit's house, they prepare to conjure money from the credulous. Disguised as Captain Face, Jeremy lures in customers, and then as the grimy servant of the Alchemist, assists in gulling the victims. The play represents a day's business, one customer following another. Dapper wants a "familiar" to make him win at cards. Drugger comes...
...Delta Upsilon Fraternity, has been chosen as follows: Subtle, the Alchemist, C. Kempner '06 Face, the House-keeper, J. A. Greene '05 Dol Common, their colleague, P. E. Osgood '04 Dapper, a Lawyer's clerk, R. S. Wallace '04 Drugger, a Tobacco-man, D. C. Manning 1L. Lovewit, Master of the House, H. S. Deming '05 Sir Epicure Mammon, a Knight, W. G. Baer '04 Pertinax Surly, a Gamester, C. W. Randall '05 Tribulation Wholesome, a Pastor of Amsterdam, R. I. Underhill '06 Ananias, a Deacon there, C. Mitchell '06 Kastrill, the angry boy, T. P. Smith '05 Dame Pliant...