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: [Exeunt. EPILOGUE, INTENDED FOR MRS. BULKLEY. THERE is a place, so Ariosto sings, A treasury for lost and missing things: Lost human wits have places there assigned them, And they, who lose their senses, them. there may find But where's this place, this storehouse of the age? At least in many things, I think, I see Both shine at night, for but at Foote's alone, But in this parallel my best pretence is, That mortals visit both to find their senses. To this strange spot, rakes, macaronies, cits, W Has he not seen how you your favour place How can the piece expect or hope for quarter ? * This epilogue was given in MS. by Dr. Goldsmith to Dr. Percy (now Bishop of Dromore); but for what comedy it was in tended is not remembered (a). (a) From internal evidence (particularly from the last eight lines) it would appear to have been intended by Goldsmith as the Epilogue for " She Stoops to Conquer."-The mention of Nancy Dawson in this Epilogue, as well as in the Epilogue to the above play which was really spoken by Mrs. Bulkley, seems, though a trivial coincidence in itself, to favour the conjecture. S. J. |