the way of the world-第19部分
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meantime; that we who are not lovers may have some other employment
besides looking on。
MIRA。 With all my heart; dear Sir Wilfull。 What shall we do for
music?
FOIB。 Oh; sir; some that were provided for Sir Rowland's
entertainment are yet within call。 'A dance。'
LADY。 As I am a person; I can hold out no longer: I have wasted my
spirits so to…day already that I am ready to sink under the fatigue;
and I cannot but have some fears upon me yet; that my son Fainall
will pursue some desperate course。
MIRA。 Madam; disquiet not yourself on that account: to my
knowledge his circumstances are such he must of force comply。 For
my part I will contribute all that in me lies to a reunion。 In the
meantime; madam 'to MRS。 FAINALL'; let me before these witnesses
restore to you this deed of trust: it may be a means; well managed;
to make you live easily together。
From hence let those be warned; who mean to wed;
Lest mutual falsehood stain the bridal…bed:
For each deceiver to his cost may find
That marriage frauds too oft are paid in kind。
'Exeunt Omnes。'
EPILOGUESpoken by Mrs。 Bracegirdle。
After our Epilogue this crowd dismisses;
I'm thinking how this play'll be pulled to pieces。
But pray consider; e'er you doom its fall;
How hard a thing 'twould be to please you all。
There are some critics so with spleen diseased;
They scarcely come inclining to be pleased:
And sure he must have more than mortal skill
Who pleases anyone against his will。
Then; all bad poets we are sure are foes;
And how their number's swelled the town well knows
In shoals; I've marked 'em judging in the pit;
Though they're on no pretence for judgment fit;
But that they have been damned for want of wit。
Since when; they; by their own offences taught;
Set up for spies on plays; and finding fault。
Others there are whose malice we'd prevent:
Such; who watch plays; with scurrilous intent
To mark out who by characters are meant:
And though no perfect likeness they can trace;
Yet each pretends to know the copied face。
These; with false glosses; feed their own ill…nature;
And turn to libel what was meant a satire。
May such malicious fops this fortune find;
To think themselves alone the fools designed:
If any are so arrogantly vain;
To think they singly can support a scene;
And furnish fool enough to entertain。
For well the learned and the judicious know;
That satire scorns to stoop so meanly low;
As any one abstracted fop to show。
For; as when painters form a matchless face;
They from each fair one catch some diff'rent grace;
And shining features in one portrait blend;
To which no single beauty must pretend:
So poets oft do in one piece expose
Whole BELLES ASSEMBLEES of coquettes and beaux。
End