MISS CATLEY What if we leave it to the House? MRS. BULKLEY The House!--Agreed. MISS CATLEY Agreed. MRS. BULKLEY And she, whose party's largest, shall proceed. MISS CATLEY I'm for a different set.-Old men, whose trade is Recitative Who mump their passion, and who, grimly smiling, Turn, my fairest, turn, if ever Yes, I shall die, hu, hu, hu, hu! MRS. BULKLEY Let all the old pay homage to your merit; [A name derived from the Italian dish first patronized by the "Macaroni Club," and afterwards extended to "the younger and gayer part of our nobility and gentry, who, at the same time they gave in to the luxuries of eating, went equally into the extravagancies of dress." (Macaroni and Theatrical Magazine, October, 1770.) See note to the Dullissimo Macaroni in She Stoops to Conquer.] Of French friseurs, and nosegays, justly vain, To dress, and look like awkward Frenchmen here, MISS CATLEY Ay, take your travellers, travellers indeed! Give me my bonny Scot, that travels from the Tweed, Air-A bonny young lad is my Jockey I'll sing to amuse you by night and by day, With Sandy, and Sawney, and Jockey. MRS. BULKLEY Ye gamesters, who, so eager in pursuit, 86 My Lord,-your Lordship misconceives the case." Doctors, who cough and answer every misfortuner, "I wish I'd been call'd in a little sooner," Assist my cause with hands and voices hearty, MISS CATLEY Air-Ballinamony Ye brave Irish lads, hark away to the crack, [ Mlle. Anna-Frederica Heinel, a beautiful Prussian danseuse at this time in London, afterwards the wife of the elder Vestris. 1771. June 22nd. Mr. William Hanger bets Mr. Lee Twenty Guineas to 25 that Mlle. Heinel does not dance in England at the Opera House next Month."-(Extract from the Betting Book at Brooks's Club, printed by Mr. G. S. Street in the North American Review for July 15, 1901.) For sure I don't wrong you, you seldom are slack, And death is your only preventive : Your hands and your voices for me. MRS. BULKLEY Well, Madam, what if, after all this sparring, MISS CATLEY And that our friendship may remain unbroken, MRS. BULKLEY Agreed. MISS CATLEY Agreed. MRS. BULKLEY And now with late repentance, Un-epilogued the Poet waits his sentence. EPILOGUE (Exeunt.) INTENDED TO HAVE BEEN SPOKEN BY MRS. BULKLEY » 1 FOR SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER THERE is a place, so Ariosto sings,2 A treasury for lost and missing things; Lost human wits have places there assign'd them, [1 This Epilogue, also given to Bishop Percy by Goldsmith in MS., was first printed in the Miscellaneous Works of 1801, ii. 87. Colman, the Manager, thought it "too bad to be spoken," and the author accordingly wrote that printed with She Stoops to Conquer. (See Cradock's Memoirs, 1826, i. 225.)] [ Orlando Furioso, Canto xxxiv.] At least in many things, I think, I see How can the piece expect or hope for quarter? [Foote gave matinées at the Haymarket.] A popular song bearing the name of a famous hornpipe dancer and "toast" who died at Hampstead in 1767.] [An obvious reference to the title of the play.] THE CAPTIVITY: AN ORATORIO 1 [THE PERSONS First Jewish Prophet. First Chaldean Priest. Second Chaldean Priest. Chorus of Youths and Virgins. SCENE-The banks of the River Euphrates, near Babylon.] ACT I SCENE-Israelites sitting on the banks of the Euphrates FIRST PROPHET RECITATIVE YE captive tribes, that hourly work and weep CHORUS OF ISRAELITES Our God is all we boast below, To Him we turn our eyes; And though no temple richly drest, We'll make His temple in our breast, And offer up a tear. In [The Captivity was set to music, but never performed. It was first printed in the Miscellaneous Works (Trade edition), 1820. 1837, Prior printed it again from another MS. (Miscellaneous Works, 1837). It is here given mainly as reproduced by Mr. Bolton Corney from the second version, Author's MS. Two of the songs, with variations, were published with The Haunch of Venison, 1776.] |