title: The Milliner's Apprentice: Girlhood in Edwardian Yorkshire
author: Hazel Wheeler
description: Hazel Wheeler was born and raised in Huddersfield where her parents and grandparents ran a grocery shop in Deighton for many years. She wrote five books for Amberley Publishing ranging from local to specialist history.
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  A Yorkshire Tragedy
  
  
    
    
  Scene I  
    
  Scene II  
    
  Scene III  
    
  Scene IV  
    
  Scene V  
    
  Scene VI  
    
  Scene VII  
    
  Scene VIII  
    
  Scene IX  
    
  Scene X
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  # A Yorkshire Tragedy
  
  
  ### Thomas Middleton
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Dramatis Personae (in order of appearance)
  
  
  OLIVER }
  
  
  RALPH } serving-men of a house in Yorkshire
  
  
  SAM }
  
  
  A Boy
  
  
  The WIFE
  
  
  The HUSBAND
  
  
  Four GENTLEMEN
  
  
  A SERVANT
  
  
  The MASTER of a College
  
  
  The SON
  
  
  A MAID
  
  
  A LUSTY SERVANT
  
  
  KNIGHT, a magistrate
  
  
  Officers]
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### [i. A house in Yorkshire]
  
  
  Enter Oliver and Ralph, two serving-men.
  
  OLIVER
  
  
  
  
  
  Sirrah Ralph, my young mistress is in such a pitiful, passionate humour for
  the long absence of her love.
  
  RALPH
  
  
  
  
  
  Why, can you blame her? Why, apples hanging longer on the tree then when they
  are ripe [make] so many fallings. Viz, mad wenches, because they a