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School for Greybeards or The Mourning Bride - Hannah Cowley · A School for Greybeards; or, The Mourning Bride

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  Speaker 1: Act one of a School for Graybeards or The Morning
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  Speaker 1: Bride by Hannah Cowley. This is a LibriVox recording. All
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  Speaker 1: Don Alexis read by Todd Don Gasper read by Ethan Hurst.
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  Speaker 2: Don Octavio read by Thomas Peter, Don Henry read by
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  Speaker 2: bees Wtecandle.
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  Speaker 3: Don Sebastian read by Gregg Jeerdono.
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  Speaker 4: Donna Serafina read by Jen.
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  Speaker 5: Broda, Donna Antonia read by val.
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  Speaker 6: Roth, Donia Viola read by Matter Brachuch.
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  Speaker 7: Donna Clara read by Stunning, Rachel.
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  Speaker 8: Read by Sonya, Carlotta read by Michelle Wood.
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  Speaker 9: Bookworm, Pedrillo read by ale On Mapstone.
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  Speaker 10: Jacques read by Red Run.
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  Speaker 11: Peter read by David Purdy.
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  Speaker 12: Lady read by Agnes Robert Bair, Servant read by Inco.
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  Speaker 13: Don Philip read by Inco.
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  Speaker 1: Stage Directions read by Larry Wilson. Scene Portugal prologue.
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  Speaker 3: Prologues like mirrors which opticians place in their shop windows
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  Speaker 3: to reflect each face that passes by still mark how
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  Speaker 3: fashion varies reflecting ton in all her wild vagaries, point
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  Speaker 3: out when hats and caps are large or small, and
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  Speaker 3: register when collars rise or fall. Caricature the fashionable hobby,
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  Speaker 3: and tell if boots or shoe strings grace the lobby, nay,
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  Speaker 3: bold or grown, have sought for your applause with many
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  Speaker 3: a naughty joke on a cork and gauze. Yet, howsoever,
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  Speaker 3: the saucy comic muse delights fantastic fashion to abuse from
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  Speaker 3: pert Thalia's wit. Let's try to save her and see
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  Speaker 3: what can be said in Fashion's favor. How many own
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  Speaker 3: immortal handels sway since Fashion, to the abbey led the
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  Speaker 3: way they're taking long neglected nature's part, She held him
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  Speaker 3: Shakespeare of the harmonic art in Vain had warbled Galatelia's woe.
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  Speaker 3: If fashion had not bid the tear to flow, hew
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  Speaker 3: stones and fire had spent their rage in vain, you
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  Speaker 3: might as well have heard a shower of rain. But
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  Speaker 3: now awakened to his magic song, folks wonder how the
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  Speaker 3: deuce they slept so long. His tortured airs, all voices
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  Speaker 3: made to suit his choruses adapted for a flute, hand organ,
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  Speaker 3: hurdy gurdy, tambourine, and Hondel's praise, all join the general
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  Speaker 3: din when miss is seized to sing by every guest,
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  Speaker 3: and fond Mama too, joining with the rest, cries get
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  Speaker 3: the new guitar Papa has bought you play the last lesson,
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  Speaker 3: mister Tweedle taught you Miss Helms and simpers veins a
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  Speaker 3: cold of course, after the usual dear sir, I'm so
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  Speaker 3: hoarse instead of a cotillion from her book, where favored
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  Speaker 3: Handel triumphs over Malbrook. By way of prelude to the
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  Speaker 3: charming squaw thrums like a minuet the march, and Saul
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  Speaker 3: Papa too, who a connoisseur now grows, accompanies divinely with
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  Speaker 3: his nose. Since music is so universal grown, shall not
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  Speaker 3: our Morning Bride its influence own. Sure tis the wish
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  Speaker 3: of every female breast that harmony may soothe her cares
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  Speaker 3: to rest, guided by harmonies enchanting laws, her sweetest music
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  Speaker 3: will be your applause.
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  Speaker 1: School for Graybeards or The Morning Bride. Act one scene
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  Speaker 1: an apartment ad done sebastians enter two servants on opposite sides.
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  Speaker 9: So our monster is dressing to dine with Don Gasper today.
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  Speaker 9: Previous to the wedding ceremony.
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  Speaker 10: Yes, gad, the bride will be well matched. There's hardly
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  Speaker 10: a richer man in Lisbon well married.
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  Speaker 9: You mean, as to the match, you might have made
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  Speaker 9: a better between a canary bird a jack o lantern
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  Speaker 9: sixty five and eighteen is a union full as vapory
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  Speaker 9: and unnatural.
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  Speaker 10: Now you've done it, prithee, Who can that stranger be
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  Speaker 10: so muffled up without?
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  Speaker 9: I know not? He takes as much pains to Aidy's
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  Speaker 9: face as though he had stolen it.
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  Speaker 10: Silly Stolen faces are always shown off the most boldly,
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  Speaker 10: witness our ladies after they have been robbing the rouge pots.
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  Speaker 10: But as to this stranger, he says, he comes from
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  Speaker 10: our master's friend, Don Henry.
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  Speaker 9: Ah does he so what that Don Henry, who was
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  Speaker 9: obliged to fly for having for a jewel?
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  Speaker 10: The same?
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  Speaker 1: Hang me?
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  Speaker 10: If I'd be playing at hide and seek in foreign
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  Speaker 10: lands for drawing a little blood, I'd go boldly to
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  Speaker 10: court and ask to speak to the Queen's majesty, and
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  Speaker 10: fall upon my knees and say.
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  Speaker 9: Hist he comes. Don Sebastian enters Sebastian, here is a
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  Speaker 9: stranger waiting with him, Sir who is he, truly, Sir,
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  Speaker 9: I can't discover. I have questioned and cross questioned him
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  Speaker 9: to no purpose. He's as dexterous as shifting announ sir,
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  Speaker 9: as though he was foster brother to a lawyer.
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  Speaker 10: But he says, Sir, he came from Don Henry, who
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  Speaker 10: was obliged to fly his country for challenging the Ah.
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  Speaker 3: Where is he going to the wing?
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  Speaker 14: No?
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  Speaker 3: Bring him hither, Bring him instantly, the brave, unfortunate Don Henry.
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  Speaker 3: This hour will be to him the heaviest of his life.
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  Speaker 1: He enters.
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  Speaker 3: Welcome, Sir. The friend of Don Henry cannot find a
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  Speaker 3: house in Portugal where he would be more joyfully received.
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  Speaker 14: You what, sir, day you thus receive the friend of
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  Speaker 14: a banished man, A man who were seen in Lisbon
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  Speaker 14: would have his head claimed the next all by the executioner.
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  Speaker 14: If thus you can receive his friend, how would you
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  Speaker 14: receive himself?
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  Speaker 1: Throwing open his cloak?
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  Speaker 3: In my arms and in my heart? I know I
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  Speaker 3: do not rejoice, Oh darn Henry, what imprudence? How dare
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  Speaker 3: you venture hither before your pardon has been obtained?
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  Speaker 14: Could you suppose the intelligence of Antonia's marriage would suffer
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  Speaker 14: me to rest in any other spot that the proud
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  Speaker 14: son visits. Had I been beneath the zone from which
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  Speaker 14: he paused his broadest rays, or in the dusky regions
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  Speaker 14: of Chimeria, such intelligence must have impelled me.
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  Speaker 3: Hither, and to what purpose? Surely this is a sort
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  Speaker 3: of chiotism that must end, like the Sublime Knight's contention
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  Speaker 3: with the windmills.
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  Speaker 14: I care not how it ends, the displeasure of my sovereign,
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  Speaker 14: and my heart torn by the ingratitude of the woman
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  Speaker 14: on whom it dotes the son. The end approaches, the better.
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  Speaker 3: I am not now to learn how hard it is
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  Speaker 3: to stem the torrent of your passions. Yet, if you
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  Speaker 3: would be patient, or might be well at least I
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  Speaker 3: trust so, though my visit to England at that period
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  Speaker 3: prevented me knowing precisely at the ground of your quarrel.
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  Speaker 14: Quarrel, do you then suspect it was a fray in
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  Speaker 14: which I fought that my sword is drawn in tavern brawls,
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  Speaker 14: or to support the insolence or perfidy of an abandoned
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  Speaker 14: wanton Jews of that sort a soldier stoops not.
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  Speaker 3: To pray, then inform, and.
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  Speaker 14: I fought to punish the slanderer of him who taught
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  Speaker 14: me how to fight the brave Dulmta, that once conquering hero.
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  Speaker 14: I knew him well twas he first placed a sword
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  Speaker 14: upon my youthful thigh, and drawing forth the burnished blade.
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  Speaker 14: Never my henry, said the hoary general. Never be its
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  Speaker 14: lust a stained, except to serve your king or vindicate
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  Speaker 14: your friend. These are the outlines of a soldier's duty.
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  Speaker 14: Would you be a perfect soldier? Labor to be an
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  Speaker 14: exemplary man? With that sword? I thank it.
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  Speaker 1: Holding his sword and bending over.
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  Speaker 14: It, I punished his traducer.
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  Speaker 3: Surely you cannot doubt of pardon.
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  Speaker 14: But whilst I wait for pardon in another kingdom, my
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  Speaker 14: antonia is lost.
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  Speaker 3: Oh is she not already lost?
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  Speaker 15: No?
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  Speaker 14: She is not. By heaven she shall not. She is
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  Speaker 14: my contracted wife. No power on earth can make her
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  Speaker 14: another's whilst I live.
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  Speaker 3: Are this, my friend, only proves the bitter excess of
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  Speaker 3: your disappointment? Have you any settled scheme?
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  Speaker 14: I have? At Madrid chanced that Don Julio, nephew to
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  Speaker 14: old Gasper, my rival, conceived a warm attachment for me
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  Speaker 14: from him. I learnt the news of this abhorrent marriage,
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  Speaker 14: the agonies that threw me in. He compassionated and formed
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  Speaker 14: a scheme which wears a face of.
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  Speaker 3: Success alas it is well, but pray go on.
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  Speaker 14: Learning that my person was unknown to Don Gasper, whose
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  Speaker 14: retired life throws him out of all public circles, Holyo
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  Speaker 14: conceived the resolution to make me pass for himself.
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  Speaker 3: You to pass for Don Gaspar's nephew.
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  Speaker 12: Well with his.
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  Speaker 14: View, he pretended an ardent to visit Portugal. His father
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  Speaker 14: has in course written to Don Gaspar. We both arrived
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  Speaker 14: last night, and Julio has given me the letter which
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  Speaker 14: will fix me in the house of my rival, to prevent,
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  Speaker 14: by whatever means that may offer themselves, the design upon
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  Speaker 14: my honor the robbery of my wife.
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  Speaker 3: My dear unhappy Henry some in your fortitude whilst I
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  Speaker 3: tell you that Don Julio's friendship, united with your own temerity,
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  Speaker 3: cannot save your honor. If your honor is to be
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  Speaker 3: wounded by.
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  Speaker 1: Shaking his head?
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  Speaker 2: What's that?
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  Speaker 14: No speak, Sebastion. My apprehensions choke me.
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  Speaker 3: I cannot give sound to words so cruel, But fly
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  Speaker 3: and save that life which, if you are discovered here,
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  Speaker 3: must be forfeit.
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  Speaker 14: Huh, understand you she's married. She's married, and Tonia is another's. Oh, Sebastian,
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  Speaker 14: let me.
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  Speaker 1: Breathe, throwing himself on sebastian courage.
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  Speaker 3: Man, if he would but swear a little now and
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  Speaker 3: give all the sex, black, brown and yellow to the devil,
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  Speaker 3: I should have some hopes of you. No, there's no
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  Speaker 3: bearing this. A fine young fellow yielding himself to despair.
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  Speaker 3: At the very moment his perfidious mistress is giving herself
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  Speaker 3: to another. This very day she weds don Gaspar, this.
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  Speaker 14: Very day, says thou speak it again, Sebastian, bless me
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  Speaker 14: with sound?
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  Speaker 3: Is this very day alas he's mad?
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  Speaker 14: No, no, if it be, but this day they're yet
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  Speaker 14: a hopes.
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  Speaker 3: She is now in the house of your rival. According
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  Speaker 3: to the custom of our country, she this morning went there,
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  Speaker 3: attended by her bridemaids, and in the evening Old Gaspar
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  Speaker 3: receives her vows.
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  Speaker 14: They are mine in the face of heaven, and before
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  Speaker 14: witnesses they are mine. If she has given them to another,
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  Speaker 14: they cannot be valid. But by my assent, I'll fly
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  Speaker 14: instantly to the house, going.
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  Speaker 3: Nay, suffer me to attend you for though I have
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  Speaker 3: dear and tender cares of my own, I shall scarcely
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  Speaker 3: be awake to them. What's my friend is in such danger?
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  Speaker 14: Oh sebast, the less or misery of all my years
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  Speaker 14: to come must be determined before the approaching night. Hath
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  Speaker 14: told out half it's ours. The enterprise is difficult, is
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  Speaker 14: full of danger? What danger can be formidable to a
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  Speaker 14: wretch who precipitated on a gulf must leap it or
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  Speaker 14: be lost?
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  Speaker 1: Excellent scene changes to don't gaspers. He enters meeting Rachel.
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  Speaker 12: Well, Rachel, how is my little girl? How is the bride?
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  Speaker 12: Or her spirits got up? What does she do? What
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  Speaker 12: does she say?
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  Speaker 16: Oh, Lord sir, she says, but little, and as to doing,
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  Speaker 16: a half stifled sigh pops out now and then or else.
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  Speaker 16: She's as still as an ivory.
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  Speaker 12: Statute, statute. But why don't you talk to her, then,
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  Speaker 12: missus statute, and tell her how happy she is? You
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  Speaker 12: should say, do you see, ma'am, with the fine house
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  Speaker 12: you have missed yourself? Do you see how many servants
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  Speaker 12: are at your command? And this rich casket of jewels, ma'am,
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  Speaker 12: which my master presents to you. How many ladies will
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  Speaker 12: envy you these jewels. Did not her eyes sparkle when
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  Speaker 12: she found them on her toilet.
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  Speaker 16: No, sir, but they glittered, for there was a.
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  Speaker 12: Tear in each tear, Aye, tears of joy.
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  Speaker 16: To be sure, the bridemaids and the rest of the
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  Speaker 16: ladies endeavored all they could to divert her, but to
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  Speaker 16: no purpose. So I up and said, says I loss, ma'am,
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  Speaker 16: you are the happiest lady in Portugal. My master is
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  Speaker 16: the most agreeablest man for an old hm, I mean
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  Speaker 16: a middle aged gentleman. That was the word. Indeed, Sir,
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  Speaker 16: for a middle aged gentleman in all the world. He's
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  Speaker 16: never out of temper nor peevish, except when he has
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  Speaker 16: the gout. Shah, then says I, ma'am. As to wrinkles, Lord,
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  Speaker 16: what signify is minding a few wrinkles? Why, in forty years, ma'am,
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  Speaker 16: you will be as rinkly.
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  Speaker 4: As he is.
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  Speaker 12: What the devil did you talk to her of wrinkles
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  Speaker 12: for wrinkles? To be sure, I have the crows feet
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  Speaker 12: about my eyes, but many men have them before they
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  Speaker 12: are thirty.
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  Speaker 16: That's true, then, says I. As to my master's teeth, ma'am,
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  Speaker 16: they are as white and even and polished. I as
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  Speaker 16: your ladyships, and so they are. You know, sir, they
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  Speaker 16: have been home, but a fortnight sounds.
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  Speaker 12: Get into the kitchen and go neither, lady no more?
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  Speaker 12: Was there ever such a stupid chattering?
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  Speaker 16: It's nuts to me to sting him, for I pity
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  Speaker 16: the poor young creature from my soul exit.
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  Speaker 12: I don't know whether it is stupidity or archness in
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  Speaker 12: the winch. I'm afraid she means to laugh at me,
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  Speaker 12: hang me if I would have married at all, if
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  Speaker 12: my son would have married. But families must be kept up,
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  Speaker 12: and nothing can be swayed that young dog into the trammels.
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  Speaker 12: He'll rather turn monk than turn to matrimony. Inter servant,
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  Speaker 12: Well you saw your lady, honest Peter, Yes, sir. Oh, well,
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  Speaker 12: well isn't she a pretty tight thing? Look at the garden.
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  Speaker 12: There she trips, There she trips.
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  Speaker 11: With submission, Sir, I wish the trip mayn't have been yours.
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  Speaker 11: I am afraid this marriage is one of the falsest
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  Speaker 11: steps your worship ever made. And here's my young master.
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  Speaker 11: I am out if he does not think so too,
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  Speaker 11: For all he looks so full of spirits.
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  Speaker 12: What care I for what your young master thinks? Or
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  Speaker 12: you either you.
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  Speaker 1: Old exit a servant enter Octavio.
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  Speaker 2: Joy to you, sir, joy on the fest of morn.
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  Speaker 2: But by the way, it is very ill dressed for
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  Speaker 2: a bridal morn, the same dust sky blue it has
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  Speaker 2: worn this fortnight. Nor has the son been at the
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  Speaker 2: expense of one ray extraordinary all nature should have been
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  Speaker 2: in Galla on such an event as your nuptials. But
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  Speaker 2: where is my mother? I came eagerly to pay my duty?
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  Speaker 12: Mother, gad that would look odd to see such a
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  Speaker 12: trapper as you call her mother?
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  Speaker 2: Shall it be Mamma, sir?
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  Speaker 12: No, Madam, that's grave and calmly. Madame has a distant
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  Speaker 12: sound in it. You shall call her madam. But instead
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  Speaker 12: of coming dutifully to congratulate me, sir, why did you
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  Speaker 12: not dutifully marry yourself?
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  Speaker 2: Faith, sir, of all the duty's fate has imposed upon
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  Speaker 2: a man, I think that the hardest.
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  Speaker 12: Tis an imposition that some hundred dozen of your greag ansires,
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  Speaker 12: as wise and as witty as your worship, have submitted to.
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  Speaker 2: Tis devil strange that it was necessary for so many
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  Speaker 2: great men to play the fool to bring me into existence.
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  Speaker 12: There's Don Alexis, to Alva, had been half mad to
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  Speaker 12: give you his daughter ever since your return from Italy.
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  Speaker 2: Ay had I had the grace to humor him, Sir,
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  Speaker 2: how happy for your fair antonia. She might have become
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  Speaker 2: at the same moment of virgin bride and to.
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  Speaker 12: Grandmamma shall nonsense.
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  Speaker 2: However, Sir, let her not despair. She may hope for
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  Speaker 2: the honor of being a grandmother. Yet I refused the
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  Speaker 2: daughter of Don Alexis without having seen her. But now
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  Speaker 2: that I have seen her, I think I could venture
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  Speaker 2: to exchange my dear prize liberty for captivity with her.
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  Speaker 12: Say you so, my boy, it's the happiest news that
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  Speaker 12: I have heard. But where could you see her? For
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  Speaker 12: Don Alexis is so nicely jealous that if his stone
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  Speaker 12: walls had eyes, he'd never suffer either his wife or
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  Speaker 12: daughter to unveil before them.
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  Speaker 2: I saw her at church with her father. The sermon
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  Speaker 2: was on Christian charity, and to show how well she
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  Speaker 2: could illustrate the doctrine, she lifted her veil on that
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  Speaker 2: side next me, for she saw me hungering and thirsting.
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  Speaker 12: For a view memorandum. My wife never goes to church.
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  Speaker 2: You shock me, sir. What is my dear mamma to
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  Speaker 2: turn heathen?
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  Speaker 12: No, sir, I'll read homilies to her and she shall
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  Speaker 12: have prayers at home.
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  Speaker 13: Inter Servant Don Alexis de Alva, Sir, is come to
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  Speaker 13: pay his compliments to you on your wedding.
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  Speaker 2: Tis a happy presage. Pray recommend my suit, sir, And
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  Speaker 2: in the meantime, I'll go and ask blessing of the
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  Speaker 2: young lady in the garden.
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  Speaker 1: Exit enter, Don Alexis, so my old friend.
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  Speaker 15: You're going to do a wise deed to day Solomon,
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  Speaker 15: and the child was nothing to it. Give ye joy?
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  Speaker 15: I give ye joy.
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  Speaker 12: You have a happnack in your civilities. You wish me
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  Speaker 12: joy as though you hoped it would be sorrow, and
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  Speaker 12: congratulated with an ailer reports.
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  Speaker 15: Air rubber fiddlesticks. And why didn't ye ask my advice?
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  Speaker 15: Could anybody have given ye better? Have I not done
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  Speaker 15: the same thing? Have I not made an old ass
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  Speaker 15: of myself by marrying a girl?
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  Speaker 12: Never mind that if your girl does not transform your
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  Speaker 12: s ship's ears to horns.
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  Speaker 15: Ah, that's a blessed fear to be goaded with in
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  Speaker 15: the last stage of one's mortal journey. I wish the
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  Speaker 15: day I left my bed to marry I had been
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  Speaker 15: confined in it with a gout, an asthma and a
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  Speaker 15: dropsy horns. Man, there's no end of your plagues from
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  Speaker 15: this moment.
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  Speaker 12: Pray keep your temper. Now, keep your temper tis a
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  Speaker 12: very bad one, but pray keep it.
• 22:52
  Speaker 15: However, why you'd find it easier to spin cables out
• 22:57
  Speaker 15: of cobwebs, what appears through the earth and swim out
• 23:01
  Speaker 15: of the antipodes than a manager, young rant, a poor wife,
• 23:06
  Speaker 15: and so your servant, I give you joy much good?
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  Speaker 1: May it? Do you going?
• 23:14
  Speaker 12: Stay? Stay a moment, man, and tell me which is
• 23:17
  Speaker 12: the greatest torment, a young wife or daughter?
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: Oh Lord?
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  Speaker 15: Why a daughter is a seventh day agieux, and a
• 23:26
  Speaker 15: wife is a frenzy fever?
• 23:29
  Speaker 12: Well come, I recommend you a physician for ragu a physician.
• 23:35
  Speaker 12: What do you mean? Why a lover to take your
• 23:38
  Speaker 12: daughter off your hands?
• 23:40
  Speaker 15: Who'd be the bold man to do that?
• 23:44
  Speaker 12: An indident, young rascal six feet in the half high, who,
• 23:47
  Speaker 12: upon such authority as husbands are obliged to take, calls me, father,
• 23:52
  Speaker 12: if you like it. He may call you, so.
• 23:55
  Speaker 15: What doctor have you? Will he be my doctor? Octavio,
• 24:01
  Speaker 15: marry my daughter? But perhaps this is a wedding day
• 24:05
  Speaker 15: joke of yours, old Signor gad, you'll find this day's
• 24:10
  Speaker 15: work no joke. WI leave me.
• 24:13
  Speaker 12: If it's a joke, you have it. The second hand,
• 24:16
  Speaker 12: there's no inventors now in the house, and has just
• 24:19
  Speaker 12: desired me to employ all my interest in his favor.
• 24:22
  Speaker 15: Interest. Let him use his own interest. Bid him come,
• 24:28
  Speaker 15: or the stout rogue your interest. You have no more
• 24:33
  Speaker 15: than a cork cutter with an archbishop. Bid him come.
• 24:37
  Speaker 15: I say, I'll hurry home and prepare my daughter. Ay, ay,
• 24:44
  Speaker 15: Let boys and girls marry my old friend. But as
• 24:48
  Speaker 15: for well, I'll say no more much good? May it do?
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: Ye exceit?
• 24:55
  Speaker 12: By Saint Jeffrey, the old fellow has made me feel
• 24:58
  Speaker 12: chilly upon the business, brought him here to throw cold
• 25:01
  Speaker 12: water upon all my orders and all the pretty little
• 25:04
  Speaker 12: loves that were springing up and warming the Lapland region
• 25:07
  Speaker 12: around my heart in once wintery age. Those gleams required
• 25:11
  Speaker 12: to be cherished, and not gad, I'll go to little Tony.
• 25:14
  Speaker 12: The baggage has never yet given me one kiss, the
• 25:18
  Speaker 12: one touch of her lips will be an antidote to
• 25:20
  Speaker 12: his cold poison.
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: Or I'm going into servants, Sir.
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  Speaker 13: Here's one Don Julio from Spain. Hey, your worship's nephew, Sir,
• 25:32
  Speaker 13: from Madrid. He's brought you a letter from his father,
• 25:35
  Speaker 13: Don Henriquez, and desires you'll admit him to pay his duty.
• 25:39
  Speaker 12: Ha, my own sister's son, my poor Olivia's boy, of
• 25:43
  Speaker 12: whom she died in childbirth.
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: Let him come in, Don Henry, introduced, my dear nephew.
• 25:51
  Speaker 12: Why I am as glad to see thee as if
• 25:53
  Speaker 12: how does do grown up as a man? Dear dear,
• 25:58
  Speaker 12: how time slips does? But yesterday that your mother came
• 26:01
  Speaker 12: out of the convent to be married like her two
• 26:05
  Speaker 12: very like her? Indeed well? And how does do Julio?
• 26:10
  Speaker 12: How is thy father.
• 26:11
  Speaker 14: Don Orrequez was well, Sir when I left Madrid. That
• 26:17
  Speaker 14: letter will inform you of his wishes beside scarcely can
• 26:21
  Speaker 14: I contain my feelings? I am now under the roof
• 26:24
  Speaker 14: of perfidious Antonia, and this wretch will call his wife.
• 26:31
  Speaker 14: Let him beware how he shows the slightest fondness by
• 26:36
  Speaker 14: heaven if he should.
• 26:38
  Speaker 12: Aye, very well, very well, your father desires you may
• 26:42
  Speaker 12: be received as my guest, and as that you are
• 26:45
  Speaker 12: of a remarkable, sober, serious turn, I'm glad of it, Julio,
• 26:50
  Speaker 12: Never be wild, my boy. I suppose you can see
• 26:53
  Speaker 12: a pretty woman without wishing her husband at the devil,
• 26:56
  Speaker 12: or endeavoring to persuade her that you are a finer
• 26:59
  Speaker 12: fellow than he is.
• 27:00
  Speaker 14: Those are not my habits, sir.
• 27:03
  Speaker 12: I believe it. Yet, there's something in your look that
• 27:06
  Speaker 12: confirms what you say. Well, you are come in happy time.
• 27:10
  Speaker 12: You are going to have a new aunt. I'll present
• 27:12
  Speaker 12: you to her. But she is very rigid. Remember that
• 27:16
  Speaker 12: she'll expect you to treat her with the most distant respect.
• 27:20
  Speaker 12: She's not so young as she looks. No, no a
• 27:23
  Speaker 12: city person. Some women will look young in spite of yours.
• 27:28
  Speaker 14: True, sir, Some men will be fools in spite of wrinkles.
• 27:33
  Speaker 12: Ah, you are right, nephew, tis a vile, foolish age.
• 27:36
  Speaker 12: Now I'll carry you to your aunt. Ah. Here she comes.
• 27:40
  Speaker 12: But not so pretty a woman, I assure you, when
• 27:42
  Speaker 12: examined as at the first glance, some women strike at first,
• 27:46
  Speaker 12: you know.
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: Don Henry aside hypo critical slanderer, How shall I contain
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: my emotions? Antonia enters with ladies.
• 28:00
  Speaker 14: Huh, she doth not look happy? Some consolation to my
• 28:05
  Speaker 14: racked heart.
• 28:06
  Speaker 12: Come, dearie, cheer up, cheer up. What all these trinkets
• 28:10
  Speaker 12: and rich laces and finery not brighten me? Had you
• 28:14
  Speaker 12: married a young fellow, he'd have made you no such presents.
• 28:17
  Speaker 12: His money would have been lavish, and all his mistresses.
• 28:20
  Speaker 12: I'll keep no mistresses. No naughty woman shall seduce thine
• 28:24
  Speaker 12: own old.
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: Man Antonia aside Nasius.
• 28:29
  Speaker 5: Oh Clara, my fate seems to open on me at
• 28:33
  Speaker 5: this moment with a horror I never yet conceived.
• 28:37
  Speaker 7: Tis a moment too late. Sweet cousin, you have submitted
• 28:40
  Speaker 7: to your fate. Think now how to make your fate
• 28:43
  Speaker 7: submit to you.
• 28:45
  Speaker 12: Out out no whispering, to hugro old enough to turn
• 28:48
  Speaker 12: back biters. Nuckle up your smiles.
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: Patty in Antonia's cheek and your pretty roguish leers.
• 28:56
  Speaker 12: Come, ladies, your spirits, your wit. I thought every woman
• 29:00
  Speaker 12: happy on the wedding day, whether it was her own
• 29:02
  Speaker 12: or her neighbors.
• 29:04
  Speaker 4: The brine's pensiveness in facts, as Sir r, seems to
• 29:08
  Speaker 4: be impertinent.
• 29:11
  Speaker 5: Pardon me. Were my spirits obedient to my wishes, your
• 29:14
  Speaker 5: reproach would have been undeserved. But though we can determine
• 29:18
  Speaker 5: how to act, I find we cannot determine how to
• 29:22
  Speaker 5: feel feel feel.
• 29:25
  Speaker 12: When I was a youngster, women had no such word
• 29:28
  Speaker 12: in their vocabulary. Can't you leave your feelings alone? Never
• 29:32
  Speaker 12: mind them? And in like neglected guests, there will be
• 29:35
  Speaker 12: in no hurry to repeat their visits. I have not
• 29:38
  Speaker 12: regarded my feelings many years, and now they have learned manners.
• 29:42
  Speaker 12: And don't interrupt me.
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: Don Henry aside, not one chance look this way?
• 29:50
  Speaker 14: And yet I can forgive the sweet averted eyes because
• 29:54
  Speaker 14: it speaks disgust to all around her.
• 29:57
  Speaker 5: You know the cause I have for sorrow, and have
• 30:00
  Speaker 5: allowed it. Yet my pensiveness ought not to throw a
• 30:04
  Speaker 5: weight upon the day I will be better.
• 30:08
  Speaker 12: Yes, yes, we shall be as happy and as faithful
• 30:10
  Speaker 12: as too, Turtle dove, shan't we pat?
• 30:13
  Speaker 5: I hope to prove my duty. Sir Aside, dear, he
• 30:17
  Speaker 5: never asked my love.
• 30:20
  Speaker 12: I have forgot here. He is a nephew of mine,
• 30:22
  Speaker 12: a nephew of yours now, but I receive him.
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: Don Julio Kovallo, She curtsies without regarding him, Don Henry aside.
• 30:32
  Speaker 14: Where then is the secret sympathy of love which should
• 30:35
  Speaker 14: instructor that her Henry's near? She shall observe me. May
• 30:40
  Speaker 14: this day be happy to you, lady, and to him
• 30:44
  Speaker 14: whom most you wish to bless.
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: She started, His voice looks and shrieks.
• 30:51
  Speaker 12: Hey, dear little pat what ails ya? Why do you
• 30:53
  Speaker 12: start and shriek? He is my own flesh and blood.
• 30:57
  Speaker 5: Surprise, sir, Oh, your nephews so much, He so much resembles.
• 31:03
  Speaker 3: I like me.
• 31:04
  Speaker 12: Mayhap you think I believe there is a family likeness.
• 31:07
  Speaker 12: But that need not have scared.
• 31:08
  Speaker 5: You so No, sir, it was not that his resemblance
• 31:13
  Speaker 5: is too to a most beloved relation whom I have lost.
• 31:18
  Speaker 12: Oh what your cousin. I suppose that fine young man
• 31:22
  Speaker 12: who went to Mexico and was drowned. Ay a poor fellow.
• 31:26
  Speaker 5: He was drowned or done Henry living. I should believe
• 31:30
  Speaker 5: the stranger him. But oh, tis impossible. The grave will
• 31:35
  Speaker 5: not give back its prey, No, not to agonizing love.
• 31:40
  Speaker 12: Come, come, little Paddy, what do you cry for? Your
• 31:44
  Speaker 12: cousin that was drowned went to Mexico to make his fortune,
• 31:47
  Speaker 12: didn't he? Yes, sir, well he got us in there.
• 31:51
  Speaker 12: What would you have come? Let us go to the
• 31:53
  Speaker 12: music room. There, you who have husbands will find them,
• 31:57
  Speaker 12: and you who have none may make snares for them.
• 32:00
  Speaker 12: Combat leading her, you are already snarut and the gad
• 32:05
  Speaker 12: he must look sharp? Who gets you back of my net?
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: Excellent? All but done, Henry, I, who looks sharp?
• 32:12
  Speaker 14: And get her out of thy net? Closely as thou
• 32:15
  Speaker 14: hast entangled her.
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: Dona Clara returns and twitches his arm.
• 32:22
  Speaker 7: Turn, young man, I pray he starts. Good. Don Julio,
• 32:27
  Speaker 7: tell Don Henry, we did not expect to find him
• 32:29
  Speaker 7: in masquerade to grace Antonia's nuptials.
• 32:33
  Speaker 14: I am discovered, then, Dona Clara, your faithless cousin.
• 32:39
  Speaker 7: Faithless has she been?
• 32:41
  Speaker 14: Is she not this day to be married?
• 32:44
  Speaker 7: Truly? I think so, signor or I am not a bridemaid.
• 32:48
  Speaker 7: But how far faithless? I know not, For I returned
• 32:51
  Speaker 7: from Aragon last night after more than a year's absence.
• 32:55
  Speaker 7: We met but an hour since in the church. Nor
• 32:58
  Speaker 7: have we yet had time for conversation.
• 33:01
  Speaker 14: Then, I entreat you let this discovery rest with yourself.
• 33:05
  Speaker 14: It is of the last importance to me that I
• 33:07
  Speaker 14: should not be known to Don Gaspar, and at present
• 33:10
  Speaker 14: I would be equally concealed from Antonia.
• 33:13
  Speaker 7: You must give me reasons for this request, for I
• 33:16
  Speaker 7: am not certain that I ought not instantly to betray you.
• 33:19
  Speaker 7: It is true you have been her lover, but she
• 33:23
  Speaker 7: is now to be the wife of Don Gaspar. Her
• 33:25
  Speaker 7: duties to him will be of the most sacred sort,
• 33:29
  Speaker 7: and she must fulfill them scrupulously.
• 33:32
  Speaker 14: Think me not a seduce, sir. I have loved Antonia
• 33:36
  Speaker 14: for her purity and virtue, and to destroy her honor
• 33:40
  Speaker 14: would be to trample on my own, Oh Clara, for
• 33:44
  Speaker 14: you have loved as I do. My passion is mingled
• 33:48
  Speaker 14: with the tender, protecting affection of a brother, and violation
• 33:52
  Speaker 14: is impossible.
• 33:54
  Speaker 7: Pray then, tell me you.
• 33:57
  Speaker 14: Shall know all, and should Antonia's married voluntary, I will
• 34:01
  Speaker 14: take no revenge but to leave her that if, as
• 34:05
  Speaker 14: a melancholy allows me to hope she has been deceived
• 34:08
  Speaker 14: into it. There's not a power on earth that can
• 34:12
  Speaker 14: divide us.
• 34:13
  Speaker 7: If your design is not contrary to rectitude. To be assured,
• 34:17
  Speaker 7: I shall not oppose it. Follow me to a more
• 34:20
  Speaker 7: distant room, A new secret is almost as delightful as
• 34:24
  Speaker 7: a new lover.
• 34:26
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• 35:00
  Speaker 1: Serafina pulling in Alexis.
• 35:03
  Speaker 4: Come along, my charming husband. Bless me what eloquence and fire?
• 35:08
  Speaker 4: Considering you are fifty nine, I protest a man thirty
• 35:13
  Speaker 4: years younger could hardly have found such a variety of
• 35:15
  Speaker 4: things to have said on so trivial a subject. One
• 35:19
  Speaker 4: might mistake you for an English senator instead of a
• 35:21
  Speaker 4: Portuguese Privy Councilor you can say so much upon nothing nothing?
• 35:29
  Speaker 15: Why is it nothing that whenever I go out the door,
• 35:33
  Speaker 15: your head is directly out of the window like the
• 35:37
  Speaker 15: sign of Queen Jezebel. Tis known to all the impudent
• 35:42
  Speaker 15: young facehunters in Lisbon, who saunter about my gates like
• 35:47
  Speaker 15: wolves before a sheep fold. You call that nothing?
• 35:52
  Speaker 4: Oh, no, Heaven forbid, I should be so ungrateful towards
• 35:55
  Speaker 4: the grand pleasure of my life. Nothing tis everything my happiness.
• 36:02
  Speaker 4: I wait for sunset every day with impatience, because tis
• 36:06
  Speaker 4: known that I then mount my throne, that is, I
• 36:10
  Speaker 4: enter my balcony and see you prostrate subjects, adoring and
• 36:15
  Speaker 4: deifying me zooned.
• 36:19
  Speaker 15: What a vile custom it was to build houses with windows.
• 36:23
  Speaker 15: I'll have them all blocked up. Skylights are the only
• 36:28
  Speaker 15: things for a Christian country. Windows and balconies. They are
• 36:33
  Speaker 15: fit only for Turkish baths and public brothels.
• 36:37
  Speaker 4: Listen, dearie, and I'll bless you with a secret. Blind
• 36:41
  Speaker 4: your windows and nail your doors. But if your honor
• 36:45
  Speaker 4: curtsying has no better security than these, you'll soon be
• 36:50
  Speaker 4: in the herd whose ideal ornaments touching his forehead are
• 36:56
  Speaker 4: so terrific to you.
• 36:59
  Speaker 15: The devil's stone walls won't keep ye. What stronger security
• 37:04
  Speaker 15: could my honor have?
• 37:06
  Speaker 4: My honor rely on that, and I swear to you,
• 37:10
  Speaker 4: by everything sacred, that no vestal's life shall be more blameless.
• 37:16
  Speaker 4: It is due to my own feelings to be chaste.
• 37:19
  Speaker 4: I don't condescend to think of yours in the affair.
• 37:23
  Speaker 4: The respect I bear myself makes me necessarily preserve my purity.
• 37:28
  Speaker 4: But if I am suspected, watched and hunted, I know not,
• 37:32
  Speaker 4: but such torment may weary me out of principles which
• 37:36
  Speaker 4: I have hitherto cherished as my life.
• 37:40
  Speaker 15: If all this is true, what the devil makes ye
• 37:44
  Speaker 15: so fond of admiration?
• 37:46
  Speaker 4: I can't tell what devil makes me so fond of admiration?
• 37:50
  Speaker 4: But I know I love admiration, and I will have
• 37:53
  Speaker 4: it till he whom you represent says.
• 37:57
  Speaker 15: No, whom I represent? And who's that mercy?
• 38:03
  Speaker 4: Who can it be? But old, shriveled, gray pated time
• 38:07
  Speaker 4: to his negative I shall yield, but with a very
• 38:11
  Speaker 4: ill will, I assure you. If the passion we have
• 38:14
  Speaker 4: for admiration is wrong, let nature look to it twas
• 38:19
  Speaker 4: she impressed it on our hearts. And it is her
• 38:22
  Speaker 4: law that to tyrannize over the peace of man is
• 38:26
  Speaker 4: to woman consummation of happiness.
• 38:29
  Speaker 15: And yet you, every one of ye, pretend to be
• 38:33
  Speaker 15: tender hearted and compassionate, and all that.
• 38:37
  Speaker 4: Why to say truth one is a sort of a
• 38:40
  Speaker 4: paradox had a tale of woe. I melt like Naiobe
• 38:45
  Speaker 4: and am agonized at distress. If I cannot relieve it.
• 38:50
  Speaker 4: Yet a lover's misery is delightful. I would not obate
• 38:54
  Speaker 4: a man who adored me a single sigh and should
• 38:57
  Speaker 4: have no rest at night, if I thought he was
• 39:00
  Speaker 4: leaping quietly.
• 39:02
  Speaker 15: Lord, have mercy now.
• 39:05
  Speaker 4: I hope you feel yourself very much honored that I
• 39:08
  Speaker 4: take you so far into my confidence. If you have
• 39:11
  Speaker 4: a grain of sense, you'll be charmed with it.
• 39:15
  Speaker 15: I don't know what the devil to make of ye.
• 39:18
  Speaker 15: Sometimes I think one thing and sometimes another into a servant.
• 39:25
  Speaker 13: Don Octavia, sir, exit, better he than Caesar.
• 39:31
  Speaker 15: I'll wait upon him directly.
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: Well.
• 39:34
  Speaker 15: I am in the way at last to have one
• 39:37
  Speaker 15: plague less. However, Don Octavio, he has come to offer
• 39:42
  Speaker 15: himself to Viola pray step, and send her here to
• 39:47
  Speaker 15: receive him. For I am obliged to go instantly to council.
• 39:52
  Speaker 15: I shall but just speak to Octavio and send him up.
• 39:56
  Speaker 15: Charge her to receive him well. She shall be married,
• 40:00
  Speaker 15: eat and less than a week exit.
• 40:04
  Speaker 4: I shall give his daughter no such charge, poor girl,
• 40:07
  Speaker 4: how can she receive Octavio well? With her heart devoted
• 40:11
  Speaker 4: to Sebastian. I wonder what sort of a thing this
• 40:15
  Speaker 4: signor is some wrinkled privy counselor like himself. I suppose
• 40:20
  Speaker 4: tis very odd now that those ancients should take it
• 40:24
  Speaker 4: into their venerable noodles that a youthful bride is a
• 40:27
  Speaker 4: proper appendage to their dignity, or to fancy that it
• 40:31
  Speaker 4: requires no more talents to please a pretty wife than
• 40:34
  Speaker 4: to govern a stupid nation. Lord, if my dearie would
• 40:39
  Speaker 4: but speak the truth now and warn his wise brethren.
• 40:44
  Speaker 4: Hey day, is this the Octavio handsome eye vow young bold,
• 40:52
  Speaker 4: he a privy counselor mercy? How could I slander him?
• 40:57
  Speaker 1: So enter Octavio.
• 41:00
  Speaker 4: Welcome, Don Octavio, For I am informed that here you
• 41:04
  Speaker 4: must have welcome the man I saw at church.
• 41:07
  Speaker 2: I protest that cruel must checks the transport your welcome
• 41:12
  Speaker 2: gave me. May I not hope that without a must
• 41:16
  Speaker 2: you would have given me welcome?
• 41:18
  Speaker 4: Oh? Yes, pray hope it. For as I think the
• 41:21
  Speaker 4: season of hoping the most delightful in our lives, I
• 41:26
  Speaker 4: should be sorry to shorten yours.
• 41:29
  Speaker 2: If you mean to shorten my hope by disappointment, tis
• 41:32
  Speaker 2: kind to protract it. But there is a way of
• 41:34
  Speaker 2: ending hope and chanting viola without giving despair.
• 41:38
  Speaker 4: Viola did he call me?
• 41:41
  Speaker 1: Oh?
• 41:41
  Speaker 2: Permit me to believe that the honor your father allows
• 41:44
  Speaker 2: me of telling you I adore you is not displeasing
• 41:46
  Speaker 2: to you.
• 41:48
  Speaker 4: Mercy, he takes me for my husband's daughter, delightful.
• 41:53
  Speaker 2: From the moment I beheld you at Vespers, Your image
• 41:56
  Speaker 2: has never left me.
• 41:58
  Speaker 4: I vow I won't undeceave him. I take it very
• 42:02
  Speaker 4: ill of my image to follow a young man about
• 42:05
  Speaker 4: and keep such bad company without my leave.
• 42:08
  Speaker 2: Whilst your displeasure is thus playful, I can support it.
• 42:12
  Speaker 2: How charming to find the information of your face did
• 42:15
  Speaker 2: not deceive me?
• 42:17
  Speaker 4: Why what did it promise you?
• 42:19
  Speaker 2: Elegance, liveliness, frankness and understanding?
• 42:24
  Speaker 4: Oh dear, how our self love operates on every occasion.
• 42:29
  Speaker 4: Had I deceived you with such frowns and given you
• 42:32
  Speaker 4: room to believe the commands of Don alexis unpleasant to me,
• 42:36
  Speaker 4: you would have thought me intolerably stupid and wondered why
• 42:39
  Speaker 4: nature gave intelligent eyes to an idiot.
• 42:42
  Speaker 2: I will not defend myself to be the object of
• 42:45
  Speaker 2: your railleries an enviable distinction.
• 42:48
  Speaker 4: Pray, go on, nay, then I have done. An enemy
• 42:53
  Speaker 4: who won't resist is not worth combating.
• 42:56
  Speaker 2: If you will not combat an unresisting enemy. I hope
• 42:59
  Speaker 2: you condescend to ranking with your slaves. Consent to give
• 43:03
  Speaker 2: me your chains?
• 43:05
  Speaker 4: Oh, by all means I like to increase my captives.
• 43:09
  Speaker 1: There, making as though she flung something over his neck.
• 43:14
  Speaker 4: There are my chains. Do you feel them?
• 43:19
  Speaker 2: Yes, as rosy wreathe. They delight me.
• 43:23
  Speaker 4: That's not what I intended. I would have you sigh
• 43:26
  Speaker 4: under them. I in downright earnest too.
• 43:31
  Speaker 2: It is impossible for me to sigh in earnest unless
• 43:34
  Speaker 2: you tell me the hopes Don Alexis has given me
• 43:37
  Speaker 2: make you sigh in earnest?
• 43:39
  Speaker 4: What were those hopes?
• 43:40
  Speaker 2: I pray that I should have the transporting joy of
• 43:44
  Speaker 2: calling you mine.
• 43:45
  Speaker 4: Indeed, I can hardly think.
• 43:48
  Speaker 2: It by all the tempting witcheries of your face and
• 43:52
  Speaker 2: the soft cupids in your graceful air tis true.
• 43:56
  Speaker 4: So pretty an oath deserves a civil reply, and I
• 43:59
  Speaker 4: therefore protest to you. The moment Don Alexis consents to
• 44:03
  Speaker 4: my being yours, I'll yield you my hand without reluctance.
• 44:08
  Speaker 4: But after this frank engagement, Don Octavio, I expect you
• 44:11
  Speaker 4: to leave me. For the present, I have a peculiar
• 44:14
  Speaker 4: reason to request this favor. Aside, someone will come in
• 44:19
  Speaker 4: a moment and spoil my roguery.
• 44:22
  Speaker 2: Your commands shall ever govern me. But when may I
• 44:25
  Speaker 2: again presume I.
• 44:27
  Speaker 4: Cannot tell you exactly. Now be at the gate in
• 44:30
  Speaker 4: the evening, Adieu, adieu.
• 44:34
  Speaker 1: Running off at the gate in the evening.
• 44:38
  Speaker 2: How sweetly that would sound if the little villain had
• 44:41
  Speaker 2: not matrimony in her head. Well, if I must be
• 44:45
  Speaker 2: a slave at some time in my life, Ian, let
• 44:48
  Speaker 2: it be now A desperate action should be done as
• 44:51
  Speaker 2: soon as resolved.
• 44:52
  Speaker 1: On exit, Seeing donal Alexis's garden, Sebastian and Viola's seated
• 45:00
  Speaker 1: on a garden chair in the front, he throws flowers enter,
• 45:04
  Speaker 1: then rises hastily.
• 45:07
  Speaker 3: No, I swear it, Viola. I'll love thee no more,
• 45:12
  Speaker 3: no more. From this instant.
• 45:15
  Speaker 1: I am fixed, Viola, coming forward.
• 45:19
  Speaker 4: Won't you?
• 45:20
  Speaker 6: Indeed, let me look in your face whilst you make
• 45:23
  Speaker 6: that wicked oath.
• 45:25
  Speaker 3: I could cough you this instant for looking so pretty. Heavens,
• 45:30
  Speaker 3: what a horrible length of time is before you to
• 45:33
  Speaker 3: do mischief. Sixteen The fire of those eyes can't be quenched,
• 45:41
  Speaker 3: nor that Alabaster's skin shriveled in less than twenty years.
• 45:48
  Speaker 3: Oh tis dreadful.
• 45:51
  Speaker 6: You are mistaken. The small pox may fret it, the
• 45:55
  Speaker 6: jaundace may tarnish it. You have many chances to behold
• 45:58
  Speaker 6: me frightful, yet.
• 46:00
  Speaker 3: Would to heaven some of them would arrive you to
• 46:04
  Speaker 3: continue so lovely, and your father so cruel.
• 46:09
  Speaker 6: But suppose the change should happen to my father and
• 46:12
  Speaker 6: he should favor our wishes. Will you then allow me
• 46:16
  Speaker 6: to keep my charms?
• 46:18
  Speaker 12: Ay?
• 46:19
  Speaker 3: Then indeed, oh, I would dote on them, not one,
• 46:24
  Speaker 3: but should have its separate share of passion divided and subdivided.
• 46:31
  Speaker 3: I'd give to each a twelvemonth, and then begin.
• 46:34
  Speaker 6: Again inventive love, ever the same, and yet forever new.
• 46:41
  Speaker 1: Enter Carlotta, bless.
• 46:43
  Speaker 8: Me, Madam. Don Alexis has returned. The council has put off.
• 46:46
  Speaker 8: He is asking for you, and will be in the
• 46:48
  Speaker 8: garden directly.
• 46:50
  Speaker 3: Tis impossible, scarcely have I had time to vent half
• 46:54
  Speaker 3: the malice of my tenderness. I have been here but
• 46:58
  Speaker 3: three minutes.
• 47:00
  Speaker 8: Three minutes, Oh dear, how every woman the noon sight
• 47:04
  Speaker 8: of twenty would rejoice if time measured out his minutes
• 47:07
  Speaker 8: as love does. You have been here one hour and
• 47:10
  Speaker 8: a quarter by the great dial at the end of the.
• 47:12
  Speaker 6: Walk, be it hours or minutes, you must leave me,
• 47:16
  Speaker 6: my Sebastian. Should my father surprise us, I could expect
• 47:21
  Speaker 6: nothing less than six months imprisonment in a garret, with
• 47:25
  Speaker 6: the lives of the saints for my study, and bread
• 47:28
  Speaker 6: and water for my banquet.
• 47:31
  Speaker 3: Oh, I would embrace the punishment if at the end
• 47:35
  Speaker 3: of the period he would allow you to give me
• 47:39
  Speaker 3: a new imprisonment.
• 47:42
  Speaker 8: Now you might as well have put off those two
• 47:44
  Speaker 8: speeches and a half to the next opportunity. See the consequence.
• 47:48
  Speaker 8: Here comes the old gentleman. Well, I'll not be in
• 47:51
  Speaker 8: the mess. I assure ye take it all to yourselves, going.
• 47:55
  Speaker 6: Oh, stay, stay, my dear Carlotta. He can't discern at
• 47:59
  Speaker 6: this distance who we are. Let me run away. I'll
• 48:03
  Speaker 6: go into the house through the clothes walk, and Sebastian
• 48:07
  Speaker 6: shall stay and pass for your lover. It must be
• 48:10
  Speaker 6: so the danger will be less to you than me.
• 48:14
  Speaker 8: Exit upon my word. So I must be the scapegoat.
• 48:20
  Speaker 8: But I won't be blamed. I val I'll pretend I
• 48:22
  Speaker 8: don't know you. Tis very extraordinary, sir, that the gardener
• 48:27
  Speaker 8: could not leave the wicket open whilst he threw out
• 48:30
  Speaker 8: his rubbish. But you must throw yourself in for more rubbish.
• 48:33
  Speaker 8: If you don't go this minute, I'll call him to
• 48:35
  Speaker 8: bring his basket and sling you out again with the rest.
• 48:39
  Speaker 3: I detest the scepterfuge, but I must submit to it. Oh, Carlada,
• 48:47
  Speaker 3: I feel that viola must be mine.
• 48:51
  Speaker 1: Exit.
• 48:53
  Speaker 8: She feels it too. I pray get you gone, and
• 48:57
  Speaker 8: don't mistake your neighbour's gardens again. There there, that's your way.
• 49:02
  Speaker 1: Going with him through the wing.
• 49:05
  Speaker 15: Enter Alexis, Oh, you traitorous, artful slut. This must be
• 49:11
  Speaker 15: all a faint. I clearly heard. She feels it too,
• 49:18
  Speaker 15: that she must concern my wife, Oh my daughter, Oh
• 49:23
  Speaker 15: my blood burns.
• 49:25
  Speaker 1: She feels it too, garlotta re entering.
• 49:30
  Speaker 8: I wonder people are not ashamed of themselves. I swear
• 49:33
  Speaker 8: to pretend. Oh, dear sir, are you here?
• 49:38
  Speaker 15: Am I here? Cunning gentlewoman? Who was that spark? Eh?
• 49:44
  Speaker 15: Speak thou powder puff, thou snip of gauze, thou black pin?
• 49:49
  Speaker 15: Who was he? Tell me the truth? For I have
• 49:52
  Speaker 15: a touchstone to try thee by that thou canst not evade.
• 49:57
  Speaker 8: I never thought of asking who he was, the careless
• 50:00
  Speaker 8: gardener left the door open. He's some curious stranger walking
• 50:04
  Speaker 8: about the streets of lisbon.
• 50:06
  Speaker 15: Ay, seeking whom he might devour. But come, what were
• 50:11
  Speaker 15: the curitous stranger in you talking about?
• 50:14
  Speaker 1: What were his parting words, Carlotta aside?
• 50:19
  Speaker 8: The devil is surely propping him? Why, sir, they are
• 50:23
  Speaker 8: not worth repeating. He was saying twas he asked if
• 50:27
  Speaker 8: it was past twelve o'clock.
• 50:30
  Speaker 17: Alexis aside, is it past twelve? Going a little off?
• 50:36
  Speaker 15: She feels it too. That fits like custard and cucumber.
• 50:42
  Speaker 15: Those were not the words, mistress. Try again, I mean
• 50:46
  Speaker 15: his expression just before you said pray get ye gone?
• 50:51
  Speaker 8: Oh that sir. Then he said. What he said just
• 50:56
  Speaker 8: then was that's a fine.
• 50:58
  Speaker 1: Poplar, poiti to a tree. Alexis side, a fine poplar.
• 51:05
  Speaker 15: She feels it too. That does not meet a bit
• 51:09
  Speaker 15: closer than the other. Come on once more, combrush recollect or
• 51:15
  Speaker 15: by Saint Anthony.
• 51:17
  Speaker 8: No I have it, sir, I have recollected now the
• 51:19
  Speaker 8: very words what the gentleman said it going away was oh,
• 51:23
  Speaker 8: you little black eyed rogue.
• 51:25
  Speaker 17: Alexis aside, you little black eyed rogue.
• 51:30
  Speaker 15: She feels it too, as wide as Lisbond Harbor from
• 51:34
  Speaker 15: the Irish Channel. Now, by our lady, if thou dost
• 51:39
  Speaker 15: persist in giving me the trouble to question thee again,
• 51:43
  Speaker 15: this cane, and you shall be better acquainted than your
• 51:45
  Speaker 15: skin and your bones, hussy shaking her, Oh, how you
• 51:50
  Speaker 15: grip my arm?
• 51:51
  Speaker 8: Devil, take it if you will have it? Hear it?
• 51:53
  Speaker 8: Then he said, I feel that violone must be mine?
• 51:58
  Speaker 15: Bawling, Now are you satisfied?
• 52:04
  Speaker 1: Alexis aside?
• 52:07
  Speaker 15: I feel that yolda must be mine. She feels it too.
• 52:12
  Speaker 15: Hum m, that fits like the two shells of an oyster. Now, Minx,
• 52:17
  Speaker 15: I feel that I have the truth, and I feel
• 52:20
  Speaker 15: a violent desire to make you feel this cane. And
• 52:24
  Speaker 15: so that curious stranger must have been Don Sebastian, whom
• 52:28
  Speaker 15: I have ordered her never to think of, never never.
• 52:33
  Speaker 8: Why sir, she has ordered herself never to think of him.
• 52:36
  Speaker 8: But Lord, her thought's mind her no more than a
• 52:38
  Speaker 8: conclave of cardinals, would you? They will gallop toward him
• 52:41
  Speaker 8: in spite.
• 52:42
  Speaker 15: Of her, will they? But I'll cripple their speed. They
• 52:47
  Speaker 15: shall have a checked rein before she's aware. I'll go
• 52:50
  Speaker 15: this moment, and oh, here madam comes into Viola.
• 52:56
  Speaker 6: Bless me, Carlotta, where have you been.
• 53:00
  Speaker 15: Oh dear, Why she has been so kind to entertain
• 53:04
  Speaker 15: one of your lovers with out doors, madam, whilst you
• 53:08
  Speaker 15: were engaged with another within.
• 53:11
  Speaker 6: I do not understand you, sir.
• 53:13
  Speaker 15: You don't come troop mistress to Carlotta, you little black
• 53:20
  Speaker 15: eyed rogue.
• 53:22
  Speaker 1: Viola aside.
• 53:24
  Speaker 6: To be sure my father's bewitched.
• 53:28
  Speaker 15: Ah fik ye, you shall pack up your wardrobe in
• 53:31
  Speaker 15: your pocket handkerchief, you little black eyed rogue, and beat
• 53:34
  Speaker 15: your march before you are three hours nearer your wrinkles.
• 53:38
  Speaker 8: I hope I shall never overtake my wrinkles, if they
• 53:41
  Speaker 8: are to make me so suspicious and tyrannical as yours
• 53:43
  Speaker 8: have made you.
• 53:45
  Speaker 15: Exit well, innocent ones. What sort of entertainment did you
• 53:50
  Speaker 15: give Octavio, sir? How did you like him?
• 53:56
  Speaker 2: Viola aside, bless me?
• 54:00
  Speaker 6: What has he got in his head?
• 54:03
  Speaker 15: Did you coquette and give yourself only the alloud airs
• 54:06
  Speaker 15: on these occasions? Or was your stubborn mind so full
• 54:10
  Speaker 15: of Sebastian that you gave him no hopes?
• 54:13
  Speaker 6: My dear father, if you'll be pleased to speak in
• 54:16
  Speaker 6: a way that I can understand.
• 54:19
  Speaker 15: Don't provoke me. What encouragement I say, have you given
• 54:23
  Speaker 15: don Octavio? Have you dared to throw cold water on
• 54:26
  Speaker 15: his hopes? Why how you stand if you don't answer me?
• 54:32
  Speaker 1: Into Seraphina hastily.
• 54:34
  Speaker 4: Bless me, my dear? What is all this noise?
• 54:38
  Speaker 15: Why I can't get her to say a word about Octavio?
• 54:42
  Speaker 15: I know no more than my shoe string whether she
• 54:44
  Speaker 15: behaved decently to him or not?
• 54:46
  Speaker 4: To be sure she did? How can you question it?
• 54:50
  Speaker 4: But you are really very coarse? Allow something to her delicacy.
• 54:56
  Speaker 6: Viola aside, I believe they are both besides themselves.
• 55:02
  Speaker 4: Leave her with me. I'll get out all that passed.
• 55:06
  Speaker 4: She'll be undisguised to me.
• 55:08
  Speaker 1: Gad.
• 55:09
  Speaker 15: I'll go to Wactavio himself. That's the shortest way. I'll
• 55:13
  Speaker 15: ask him what passed? He is content, I shall be,
• 55:17
  Speaker 15: so I'll go to Wactavio.
• 55:20
  Speaker 1: Exit.
• 55:22
  Speaker 4: Ha, My dear Viola, this is a web of my weaving.
• 55:27
  Speaker 4: How shall I puzzle through it? I know not your
• 55:31
  Speaker 4: poor father, how you stare be pleased to know then
• 55:36
  Speaker 4: that I have just been receiving the most violent love
• 55:40
  Speaker 4: in the name of your ladyship. Actually personating you, personating me.
• 55:48
  Speaker 4: Your father went out this morning, my dear, and either banked, borrowed,
• 55:52
  Speaker 4: or stole a lover for ye, the poor youth was
• 55:55
  Speaker 4: introduced to my apartment, took it for granted that I
• 55:59
  Speaker 4: was viola and begun as I suppose. He promised your
• 56:03
  Speaker 4: father he would to adore and die for me in
• 56:07
  Speaker 4: very good form.
• 56:09
  Speaker 6: Oh, now the mystery is cleared. This is the Donald Tavio.
• 56:14
  Speaker 4: Yes, yes, now you have the nut. Shall we crack
• 56:18
  Speaker 4: it or throw it away? Pray?
• 56:20
  Speaker 6: Let us get at the colonel. If you can contrive
• 56:24
  Speaker 6: to keep my father in the dark some little time,
• 56:27
  Speaker 6: it will allow me to concert measures with Don Sebastian.
• 56:32
  Speaker 6: You do him the honor to approve his addresses.
• 56:35
  Speaker 4: I know, Oh, if you can make anything of the incident,
• 56:39
  Speaker 4: it is quite at your service. I'll listen to Octavio's
• 56:43
  Speaker 4: love tales with all the condescension imaginable, and let him
• 56:47
  Speaker 4: adore me for a month to come. If it will
• 56:50
  Speaker 4: be of use to you and Sebastian.
• 56:53
  Speaker 6: How very grateful he will be.
• 56:56
  Speaker 4: Well. Let us go then and settle matters. We must
• 56:59
  Speaker 4: take car Lota into our council, or the thing can't go.
• 57:03
  Speaker 6: On my father has discharged her.
• 57:07
  Speaker 4: I'll manage that. It would be hard, indeed, to marry
• 57:10
  Speaker 4: an old man and not make him do as one likes.
• 57:14
  Speaker 4: Young husbands we are content to submit to. But when
• 57:18
  Speaker 4: we marry graybeards, it is with the pious design to
• 57:21
  Speaker 4: have our way in everything.
• 57:25
  Speaker 1: Excellent Intovect two, Act three of a School for Graybeards
• 57:37
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• 57:54
  Speaker 1: Act three. An apartment at Don Gasper's enter. Don Henry
• 57:58
  Speaker 1: hastily followed by on Sebastian.
• 58:01
  Speaker 14: Oh tis too much?
• 58:04
  Speaker 1: Too much?
• 58:05
  Speaker 3: Ay? So it is that they should be all so
• 58:09
  Speaker 3: blind to your starts, your angry blushes, and your ill
• 58:16
  Speaker 3: concealed confusion. I drew you from the company the moment
• 58:21
  Speaker 3: dinner ended, lest when they had done eating, they should
• 58:25
  Speaker 3: begin to observe. Do you reflect that Don Philippe has
• 58:30
  Speaker 3: only to betray you to the Minister to get rid
• 58:34
  Speaker 3: of his rival forever?
• 58:37
  Speaker 14: It is more than I can bear the old Dotard's
• 58:40
  Speaker 14: fondness to day. Not yet oppose districts me that I
• 58:45
  Speaker 14: could speak to her alone? Tis plain amidst all the
• 58:49
  Speaker 14: bridal gaiety, art as not at ease?
• 58:52
  Speaker 3: Your wish is half answered, for here comes her half
• 58:57
  Speaker 3: the worst half, indeed by forty years.
• 59:01
  Speaker 14: Half Thou a lover and able to speak thus two
• 59:05
  Speaker 14: a lover, speak of them as one.
• 59:09
  Speaker 3: Forgive me for faith. I am so much a lover
• 59:12
  Speaker 3: at this moment that I scarcely know what I am saying.
• 59:17
  Speaker 3: In a word. I am summoned by my mistress's maid,
• 59:21
  Speaker 3: who has some new information. In an hour, I am
• 59:26
  Speaker 3: again at your service.
• 59:29
  Speaker 1: Exit enter don Gasper.
• 59:33
  Speaker 12: Why hell now, Julio, what stole away? Run from the guests?
• 59:38
  Speaker 12: Hight in corners? How is this?
• 59:42
  Speaker 14: I am not in spirits for company, sir, No, to
• 59:45
  Speaker 14: be sure, this joyful occasion.
• 59:47
  Speaker 12: Not in spirits on your uncle's wedding day. Out upon it.
• 59:52
  Speaker 12: But tell me, boy, what do you think of the bride?
• 59:56
  Speaker 12: Am I not a happy man?
• 59:58
  Speaker 14: Hey turns out?
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 12: So, sir, oh, I fear no turns. She is virtuous
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 12: and modest, And you know a modest woman is above
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 12: all price. But perhaps you do not know that, for
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 12: the observation is made in a book not much read nowadays.
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 12: What do you think helped me to get her? I.
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 14: Sir, what did aside my loan to be informed? Wine
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 14: perhaps will make him communicative? A splendid jointure, probably jointure.
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 12: The mine's a jointure, no more than a jointed door.
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 14: Guess again, I am not fortunate in guessing.
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 12: Then I'll tell you half a sheet of paper got her. Aye,
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 12: you may well stare twas, but half a sheet of
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 12: paper in which I procured it to be said that
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 12: one Donny Henry, whom she loved, was shrouded and buried.
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 12: That got her my.
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 1: Boy slapping him on the should.
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 12: There is a contriving uncle for you.
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 14: Is it possible?
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 12: Possible? Why I did it? I did it? And where's
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 12: the harm? A banished man is a dead man in
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 12: the eye of the law, and a dead man can
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 12: be no husband. He thought a duel and was forced
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 12: to fly.
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 14: Then, how, sir, could you take advantage?
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 12: Why those young rascals take every advantage over us with
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 12: nature to baccum And we have a right to make
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 12: reprisals when we can by the help of art.
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 14: And so the lady believed your intelligence.
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 12: Yes, yes, she believed and swooned and raved, and took
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 12: her to bed faith the doctor gave her up, But
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 12: I still determined, when it came to the last gasp,
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 12: to tell her the truth rather than have her death
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 12: to answer for. But it never came to that.
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 14: No, No, female grief, though sometimes obstinate, is seldom fatal. Why,
• 1:01:59
  Speaker 14: my dear uncle, you're a perfect Matthew velle.
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 1: At a plot aside.
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 14: I shall try if I can't helpplot you, though, would
• 1:02:09
  Speaker 14: we be amusing to see her Tonya's astonishment when she
• 1:02:11
  Speaker 14: finds her Henry is still living. But then she'll be yours.
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 14: Ha ha ha ha.
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 12: Yes, then she'll be mine, She'll be mine ha ha.
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 12: You must know that you had no fortune. The over
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 12: noble family was polstered with youthful properly get lovers, and
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 12: at length to get rid of them, agreed to give
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 12: herself to me. There's a stroke of prudence in a girl,
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 12: Henry aside.
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 14: No, twas more, I feel it was a stroke of
• 1:02:44
  Speaker 14: love to me. But what will don Henry say to
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 14: this pretty jest, which you and I find so laughable?
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 12: What care I what the man says a thousand miles off?
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 14: But if he obtains his pardon, he returned.
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 12: And then Arden, Oh, you don't know how deep I am.
• 1:03:03
  Speaker 12: I leave no loopholes for my schemes to drop through.
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 12: Hark in your ear will be secret. I have bought
• 1:03:10
  Speaker 12: his pardon.
• 1:03:11
  Speaker 14: How sir bort his pardon? Hush?
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 12: That's all under the rose. You understand me. It cost
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 12: me a good lump of modris.
• 1:03:21
  Speaker 14: You astonish me. Strange kindness to a man whom you
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 14: could rob of his wife.
• 1:03:28
  Speaker 12: Kindness tat I got his pardon for myself that nobody
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 12: else should have it, so that if he gets any
• 1:03:35
  Speaker 12: one to ask for it, it will be answered. The
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 12: pardon has been already granted. But for what of my appearance?
• 1:03:42
  Speaker 12: He's the funk to depend upon it? Aye as much
• 1:03:46
  Speaker 12: out of the world as the sexton that covered him
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 12: with green sod?
• 1:03:50
  Speaker 14: And are you actory in possession of his pardon?
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 12: As good? The money is paid, and I shall receive
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 12: it from the Broadsill office to morrow.
• 1:04:00
  Speaker 1: Henri aside, who a discovery is here? Don Alexis enters
• 1:04:07
  Speaker 1: pulling in Octavio.
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 15: Come in here, Come into this room, my dear Octavio.
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 15: So here's the young bridegroom now prithee be so kind
• 1:04:21
  Speaker 15: to leave the apartment to me in Octavio.
• 1:04:24
  Speaker 2: Let us not disturb my father, sir.
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 15: Disturb a feather? Will you leave us?
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 2: Yes?
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 12: Yes, Olivia the first, Let me present my nephew to you,
• 1:04:37
  Speaker 12: the son of my sister Victoria.
• 1:04:40
  Speaker 15: You knew her, knew her ah as well as your
• 1:04:44
  Speaker 15: nose does its spectacles. So, young gentleman, what are you
• 1:04:50
  Speaker 15: come to dance at your uncle's wedding? An twas worth
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 15: while to come post from Madrid on purpose. You won't
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 15: cut capers at so wise away day, I can tell you.
• 1:05:02
  Speaker 12: Come come a truce to your sneers. Don't you think
• 1:05:05
  Speaker 12: he resembles his poor dear mother?
• 1:05:08
  Speaker 15: Not a bit.
• 1:05:10
  Speaker 12: No, The eyes are the very same eyes.
• 1:05:14
  Speaker 15: Why hers were blue and his are black?
• 1:05:19
  Speaker 12: That's nothing. They're just the same look with them.
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 15: Yes, I grad you asked the look. His look as
• 1:05:28
  Speaker 15: much like eyes as hers did. Then she was round favored.
• 1:05:34
  Speaker 12: What signifies that a long face and the short face
• 1:05:38
  Speaker 12: may have the same air?
• 1:05:40
  Speaker 15: But his hair is dark and hers was light.
• 1:05:44
  Speaker 12: Wounds how you talk? Why all hair must be light
• 1:05:47
  Speaker 12: or dark or some color? Come along, nephew. When people
• 1:05:52
  Speaker 12: get old, they grow so obstinate. There's no convincing them
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 12: of anything. Come along, Come along, exit with don Henry.
• 1:06:01
  Speaker 15: Don't take him to your antonia, lest she should have
• 1:06:06
  Speaker 15: the odd notion that he's a fitter bridegroom for her
• 1:06:09
  Speaker 15: than you are. Well, my dear boy, I am coming
• 1:06:14
  Speaker 15: on purpose to ask how you managed to day with
• 1:06:17
  Speaker 15: my daughter? The young slot is so mealy mouthed, I
• 1:06:21
  Speaker 15: could get nothing out of her. Was she kind? Did
• 1:06:25
  Speaker 15: she show a proper sense of the favor?
• 1:06:28
  Speaker 2: Sense of the favor? Sir? She permitted me to implore
• 1:06:32
  Speaker 2: the favor of being allowed to hope?
• 1:06:35
  Speaker 15: Well, well, that's the point I would come to hang phrases.
• 1:06:40
  Speaker 15: Was you contented with your reception? Was she no more
• 1:06:44
  Speaker 15: than decently coy?
• 1:06:46
  Speaker 2: She was all goodness? Sir?
• 1:06:48
  Speaker 1: Aside?
• 1:06:50
  Speaker 2: What an old fellow's this?
• 1:06:53
  Speaker 15: All goodness? Well, that's in general. Tell me, come now,
• 1:06:59
  Speaker 15: tell me on Did she let you kiss her?
• 1:07:03
  Speaker 2: Heavens, I dared not let such a thought exist any man.
• 1:07:07
  Speaker 2: But her father asked me.
• 1:07:10
  Speaker 15: You'd have said yes, you would. I know you would
• 1:07:14
  Speaker 15: boasted of the sweetness of her lip and of the
• 1:07:16
  Speaker 15: pressure of her white hand. But I I must know nothing.
• 1:07:21
  Speaker 15: I am an old father.
• 1:07:24
  Speaker 2: Octavio Aside, what can be the meaning of all this?
• 1:07:29
  Speaker 2: Is it his suspicion or his folly?
• 1:07:32
  Speaker 15: Come? Why won't you tell me?
• 1:07:34
  Speaker 12: Now?
• 1:07:35
  Speaker 15: Tell me at once?
• 1:07:37
  Speaker 2: What shall I tell you?
• 1:07:38
  Speaker 8: Sir?
• 1:07:40
  Speaker 12: What?
• 1:07:41
  Speaker 15: Why that she treated you kindly, that you liked her
• 1:07:44
  Speaker 15: pouting lips, and that.
• 1:07:47
  Speaker 2: Believe me, sir, I dared not attempt such a liberty?
• 1:07:50
  Speaker 15: No, why had you not my permission?
• 1:07:54
  Speaker 2: I did not? So consider it, sir. But if you
• 1:07:57
  Speaker 2: lay your commands on the lady, when I have the
• 1:07:59
  Speaker 2: honor to wait on her again.
• 1:08:01
  Speaker 15: Ay that I will never fear me. But pray, where's
• 1:08:07
  Speaker 15: the foundation of your great content? If nothing kind passed aside?
• 1:08:13
  Speaker 15: I fear the slot has deceived him kind.
• 1:08:18
  Speaker 2: She was all angelic sweetness, sir.
• 1:08:21
  Speaker 15: Pooh, don't tell me of angelic sweetness. A young fellow
• 1:08:26
  Speaker 15: should be content with nothing less than mortal sweetness. When
• 1:08:30
  Speaker 15: with a blooming girl.
• 1:08:32
  Speaker 2: She had the condescension to promise?
• 1:08:35
  Speaker 15: What what that?
• 1:08:37
  Speaker 2: When you should order her to bestore a hand on me?
• 1:08:40
  Speaker 2: She would obey you without reluctance.
• 1:08:43
  Speaker 15: She promised, that did she?
• 1:08:46
  Speaker 2: She did? And my delighted soul hath dwelt on the
• 1:08:50
  Speaker 2: sound from that moment.
• 1:08:52
  Speaker 15: Well, well, come again, this evening and your soul shall
• 1:08:56
  Speaker 15: have something else beside sound to dwell upon, or I'll
• 1:09:00
  Speaker 15: understand why.
• 1:09:02
  Speaker 2: Good, sir, you would be very convenient, I perceive, but
• 1:09:06
  Speaker 2: it unfortunately happens that I choose the sweet trouble of
• 1:09:10
  Speaker 2: getting over my love difficulties myself.
• 1:09:13
  Speaker 15: Oh, to be sure above all obliged, I see what
• 1:09:19
  Speaker 15: I tell you. These young baggages have all their arts
• 1:09:22
  Speaker 15: to make a man half mad, and I know him.
• 1:09:27
  Speaker 15: I'll manage her of my little lochte. Never fear sound.
• 1:09:31
  Speaker 2: Indeed, allow me, sir, with all humility, to request that
• 1:09:35
  Speaker 2: you will give yourself no trouble in the business said death.
• 1:09:39
  Speaker 2: If I don't take care, I shan't have the pleasure
• 1:09:41
  Speaker 2: of running down my own game. If you wish to
• 1:09:44
  Speaker 2: make a son in law of me, sir, you must
• 1:09:47
  Speaker 2: permit me to travel the road of love in my
• 1:09:49
  Speaker 2: own manner, aside no bearing him.
• 1:09:53
  Speaker 15: Exit zooms what a heat Urian? Why so you you
• 1:10:00
  Speaker 15: may travel the road of love in your own manner?
• 1:10:04
  Speaker 15: I only met humbly or when they turned by gates,
• 1:10:06
  Speaker 15: For ye see what one gets by one's good nature.
• 1:10:12
  Speaker 1: Exit scene Don Gaspar's garden, Enter Henry, Don Henry, looking
• 1:10:20
  Speaker 1: as though uncertain.
• 1:10:23
  Speaker 14: Surely tis herself, Yes, tis Antonia. Like the soft lily
• 1:10:29
  Speaker 14: pressed by the dewy robe of night, she bends her
• 1:10:32
  Speaker 14: lovely head. Oh, Clara, lead her, Lead her to her Henry. Ah,
• 1:10:40
  Speaker 14: according to my wish, they come. But how may I
• 1:10:43
  Speaker 14: be master of her thoughts? Perhaps to her friend she
• 1:10:47
  Speaker 14: will unveil her inmost heart. I shall seem to sleep, Yes,
• 1:10:53
  Speaker 14: but whilst I appear to slumber, my ear will hang
• 1:10:56
  Speaker 14: on every sound she utters, and my whole so oh,
• 1:11:00
  Speaker 14: be suspended on her breath.
• 1:11:03
  Speaker 1: He reclines on a bank. Some shrubs prevent his being
• 1:11:06
  Speaker 1: immediately seen. Enter Antonia and Clara.
• 1:11:11
  Speaker 7: This is the strangest whim, seeking shades and solitude instead
• 1:11:16
  Speaker 7: of company and mirth. What will don Gasper say?
• 1:11:20
  Speaker 15: Oh?
• 1:11:20
  Speaker 5: Name him not? The arrival of the young stranger. His
• 1:11:24
  Speaker 5: nephew has renewed all my miseries. But here my sorrows
• 1:11:30
  Speaker 5: have a short cessation. Oh, Oh, those lonely shades will
• 1:11:34
  Speaker 5: soothe my sadness. Each day I'll seek the soft recess
• 1:11:40
  Speaker 5: and opening of all the treasures of remembrance. Live on
• 1:11:43
  Speaker 5: my Henry's image.
• 1:11:45
  Speaker 7: Come come. That's a sort of image worship. We don't
• 1:11:48
  Speaker 7: allow it. Would be more Catholic to live in lonely
• 1:11:52
  Speaker 7: shades with himself. This soft recess would be at least
• 1:11:57
  Speaker 7: more poetical. My dear, a handsome young man in it,
• 1:12:02
  Speaker 7: even though he should be uncivilly asleep.
• 1:12:07
  Speaker 1: Pointing to Henry Antonia not regarding her.
• 1:12:12
  Speaker 5: Oh, I'll call back each sacred hour which blessed our
• 1:12:15
  Speaker 5: wedded souls, trace each vaon sine that chastened love made pure,
• 1:12:21
  Speaker 5: and in the dear review, forget that I am a wretch.
• 1:12:28
  Speaker 7: I do forget it. Pray and look behind those shrubs.
• 1:12:32
  Speaker 7: There's a youth as much like Don Henry as every
• 1:12:35
  Speaker 7: one impudent rogue was like another.
• 1:12:39
  Speaker 18: Teas don't Julio let us retire before he wakes. And yet,
• 1:12:44
  Speaker 18: Oh Clara, I could, with his sleep lengthened to eternity
• 1:12:49
  Speaker 18: and myself immortal, to stand thus and gaze on him.
• 1:12:54
  Speaker 7: One might almost fancy it Don Henry himself, only unhappily
• 1:12:59
  Speaker 7: to is not the custom for people to leave their
• 1:13:02
  Speaker 7: family mansions in the churchyard to repose on violets for
• 1:13:07
  Speaker 7: their mistresses to gaze on them.
• 1:13:10
  Speaker 5: The resemblance is stronger now he sleeps. When awake, this
• 1:13:14
  Speaker 5: stranger has a scorn, a severity in his eye, something
• 1:13:18
  Speaker 5: that bade me fear. But Henry's eye talk only love. O,
• 1:13:25
  Speaker 5: I have seen a volume in a single glance, one
• 1:13:28
  Speaker 5: looks said what eloquence and learning might try to imitate
• 1:13:32
  Speaker 5: in vain sings.
• 1:13:36
  Speaker 19: Sweet Rosy sleep, Oh, do not fly, bind thy soft
• 1:13:41
  Speaker 19: philet on his eye. That o'er each grace my own
• 1:13:44
  Speaker 19: may rove and feast my helpless joyless love. For when
• 1:13:50
  Speaker 19: he lifts those shading lids, his chilling glance, such bliss
• 1:13:55
  Speaker 19: forbids then Rosy's sleep, Oh, do not fly, but bind
• 1:14:00
  Speaker 19: thy filet on his eye.
• 1:14:04
  Speaker 7: I say, on the contrary, open your eyes. Who knows,
• 1:14:08
  Speaker 7: but they may by this time have acquired a softer expression.
• 1:14:13
  Speaker 5: Fie, Clara, let us go this instant you will surely
• 1:14:16
  Speaker 5: wake him.
• 1:14:18
  Speaker 1: Going hastily exit Clara, Henry starting up.
• 1:14:23
  Speaker 14: Yes, he is awakened. Indeed, Oh my Antonia, turn turn,
• 1:14:29
  Speaker 14: sweet traitress, and look upon the man you've injured.
• 1:14:34
  Speaker 1: Antonia shrieking, ah ah, I shall sink art thou is
• 1:14:41
  Speaker 1: Henry than alive?
• 1:14:42
  Speaker 5: And Julio, Oh tell me whilst I yet can breathe
• 1:14:47
  Speaker 5: say art thou both or nothing?
• 1:14:50
  Speaker 14: Convinced thyself embracing her. Oh, my antonia, No.
• 1:14:58
  Speaker 5: Tis not hare My arms return not empty to my bosom.
• 1:15:03
  Speaker 5: But need a solid treasure.
• 1:15:06
  Speaker 14: The treasure you have lightly prized.
• 1:15:09
  Speaker 5: Alas, my Henry, I believe thee dead.
• 1:15:13
  Speaker 4: Oh, let me.
• 1:15:13
  Speaker 1: Touch thee again, taking his hand.
• 1:15:17
  Speaker 5: These veins are warm with life. Health blushes on thy cheeks,
• 1:15:23
  Speaker 5: and this soft pressure darts through my nerves, and it's
• 1:15:26
  Speaker 5: new life to me. Oh, my Henry, it is, it
• 1:15:31
  Speaker 5: is thyself.
• 1:15:33
  Speaker 14: Can this joy be real? You thought me dead and tonia,
• 1:15:37
  Speaker 14: and chosen bridal pomp to celebrate my obsequies. The Ephesian
• 1:15:41
  Speaker 14: story will be always new.
• 1:15:44
  Speaker 5: Think not my heart perfidious. Had I chose a youthful husband,
• 1:15:48
  Speaker 5: you might have turned me fickle. But from those I fled,
• 1:15:52
  Speaker 5: abhorred a second love and fixed where venerable age secured
• 1:15:56
  Speaker 5: my heart from every tender impulse. Oh God, and twas
• 1:16:00
  Speaker 5: I asked, and not a husband.
• 1:16:04
  Speaker 14: Nature made women false to see how well they would
• 1:16:06
  Speaker 14: excuse their crimes.
• 1:16:08
  Speaker 5: Tis well you treat me thus to check the transport
• 1:16:11
  Speaker 5: of beholding thee, which else might be too much. But
• 1:16:15
  Speaker 5: think reproachful man, consider my high birth and slender fortunes.
• 1:16:21
  Speaker 15: Behold me, a lonely.
• 1:16:23
  Speaker 5: Orphan, haunted by a train of lovers, some too high
• 1:16:27
  Speaker 5: in rank to make them fear to act, whate'er their
• 1:16:29
  Speaker 5: wishes prompted twas to escape all these.
• 1:16:34
  Speaker 14: Oh was it that indeed which forced THEE to this marriage?
• 1:16:38
  Speaker 5: It cannot be a marriage, since my henry lives, my
• 1:16:41
  Speaker 5: fowls were given to THEE. The solemn contract signed and
• 1:16:46
  Speaker 5: heaven by its holy priest involk to bless the engagement.
• 1:16:51
  Speaker 14: And in heaven tis recorded I.
• 1:16:54
  Speaker 5: Do acknowledge it, and death alone could give Antonia right
• 1:16:58
  Speaker 5: to make herself another's bay. Sort of has deceived me,
• 1:17:02
  Speaker 5: and virtuous are it must free me from the deceiver. But, oh,
• 1:17:07
  Speaker 5: thy life's at stake, Where shall we fly? And at
• 1:17:11
  Speaker 5: what blessed altars solemnize our vows?
• 1:17:14
  Speaker 14: Wilt thou then follow my sad fortunes?
• 1:17:17
  Speaker 5: Yes, to the utmost boundaries of the earth.
• 1:17:22
  Speaker 14: Oh, my sick soul needed accordial of this mighty strength
• 1:17:26
  Speaker 14: to cheer it. No, then, Antonia, we need not fly.
• 1:17:30
  Speaker 14: My pardons promised, I have important secrets to communicate to morrow.
• 1:17:36
  Speaker 14: Thou'lt be mine to morrow, transporting our And wilt thou
• 1:17:42
  Speaker 14: yet be Henry's Oh bind the promise on thy knee,
• 1:17:48
  Speaker 14: invoked the sacred powers to witness it.
• 1:17:52
  Speaker 5: Fast then kneeling me and hear me Heaven.
• 1:17:57
  Speaker 14: And thus I listen to thee.
• 1:18:00
  Speaker 1: Kneeling entered Don Philip, followed by.
• 1:18:03
  Speaker 12: Alexis, Tony, my little Tony.
• 1:18:07
  Speaker 1: Where art starting? Hey, some blood?
• 1:18:12
  Speaker 15: What's all this?
• 1:18:14
  Speaker 14: Ah?
• 1:18:15
  Speaker 15: Didn't I warn ye of the bride's odd notions? Didn't
• 1:18:19
  Speaker 15: I warn ye?
• 1:18:21
  Speaker 14: We are undone?
• 1:18:22
  Speaker 2: Trust to me apart.
• 1:18:25
  Speaker 5: Thus, then I invoke the sacred powers to witness my
• 1:18:29
  Speaker 5: resolve never to know another love, never to hold myself
• 1:18:34
  Speaker 5: bound by any vows but those made to the Lord
• 1:18:37
  Speaker 5: of my affections, the contracted husband of my heart.
• 1:18:42
  Speaker 13: Her contracted husband to.
• 1:18:45
  Speaker 1: Alexis, mark that down.
• 1:18:48
  Speaker 14: And thus do I invoke the same gracious powers to
• 1:18:50
  Speaker 14: bless you as you are true, and to preserve THEE
• 1:18:53
  Speaker 14: and that husband in a sweet eternity of love.
• 1:18:57
  Speaker 1: Don Philip runs to help them up.
• 1:19:00
  Speaker 13: Thank ye, my dear children there there, What do you
• 1:19:04
  Speaker 13: say now to my choice? Had ever man such a
• 1:19:07
  Speaker 13: wife and such a nephew no faith?
• 1:19:10
  Speaker 15: I believe not, and I may be hanged if I
• 1:19:13
  Speaker 15: believe it now, though I have seen it.
• 1:19:17
  Speaker 4: Envy sheare envy.
• 1:19:19
  Speaker 13: You see, when I marry a girl, I know how
• 1:19:21
  Speaker 13: to choose one. Come along my pigeons.
• 1:19:24
  Speaker 1: Going off with one under each arm. Exit Philip and Antonia.
• 1:19:31
  Speaker 15: Hark Ye, don Julie, give me a minute, putching him back. Come.
• 1:19:38
  Speaker 15: I know there's some jest in this. You must trust
• 1:19:42
  Speaker 15: me any gad, if you will, I'll do trust me.
• 1:19:48
  Speaker 15: I know tis some jest.
• 1:19:50
  Speaker 14: I admire your penetration.
• 1:19:53
  Speaker 15: I love a jest to my soul, and gad, if
• 1:19:56
  Speaker 15: you'll trust me.
• 1:19:58
  Speaker 1: Here here is a I ring, taking it off.
• 1:20:03
  Speaker 15: Twas worn by my great grandfather of fifteen generations back.
• 1:20:08
  Speaker 15: I value it beyond the great ruby in the throne
• 1:20:10
  Speaker 15: at Delhi. He gad, I have a great mind to
• 1:20:14
  Speaker 15: give it ye.
• 1:20:16
  Speaker 1: Putting it on again, and threw in his hand behind him,
• 1:20:20
  Speaker 1: Henry aside.
• 1:20:22
  Speaker 14: An idea darts upon me. Yes, by Heaven, it shall
• 1:20:26
  Speaker 14: be done. This is the critical instant of Antonia's fate.
• 1:20:31
  Speaker 14: A ring valued by you so highly, Don alexis ought
• 1:20:35
  Speaker 14: to grace no finger but your own. I refuse to
• 1:20:38
  Speaker 14: accept it, but if you will entrust it to me,
• 1:20:42
  Speaker 14: I swear when next you see it you shall know
• 1:20:44
  Speaker 14: the jest.
• 1:20:46
  Speaker 15: Shall I indeed yes.
• 1:20:49
  Speaker 14: And I'll venture to promise that you shall enjoy it too.
• 1:20:54
  Speaker 15: There is my ring. I pant for the hour of
• 1:20:57
  Speaker 15: its being restored, as much as a girl does to
• 1:21:01
  Speaker 15: unburden her first love secret.
• 1:21:04
  Speaker 14: I too pant for the hour, for if I mistake not,
• 1:21:07
  Speaker 14: I shall, meantime make such a use of your great
• 1:21:10
  Speaker 14: grandfather's seal ring as must make that in every future
• 1:21:14
  Speaker 14: hour blissful to me exit.
• 1:21:18
  Speaker 15: What can he mean to do with it? That seal
• 1:21:22
  Speaker 15: ring make all his future hours blissful? Maybe there's some
• 1:21:26
  Speaker 15: concealed witchcraft in it, and he has had wit enough
• 1:21:29
  Speaker 15: to find it out. Or if rightly turned, it may
• 1:21:33
  Speaker 15: make a man invisible, or something of that sort. There
• 1:21:37
  Speaker 15: have been such things formerly.
• 1:21:40
  Speaker 1: Dad.
• 1:21:41
  Speaker 15: I'll follow him, though, if my ring has any properties
• 1:21:44
  Speaker 15: of that kind, how snugly I shall be able to
• 1:21:47
  Speaker 15: watch my wife.
• 1:21:51
  Speaker 1: In the fact III, Act four of a School for
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• 1:22:16
  Speaker 1: Act four seen Seraphina's Apartment inter Serafina followed by Octavio.
• 1:22:24
  Speaker 4: It is in vain and so charming.
• 1:22:27
  Speaker 2: Viola, why are you so barbarous? Is it not by
• 1:22:31
  Speaker 2: your own permission? I attend you?
• 1:22:34
  Speaker 4: Yes, I know it is. But what if that when
• 1:22:37
  Speaker 4: the sun shone I liked you, and now by candlelight
• 1:22:41
  Speaker 4: I hate you?
• 1:22:43
  Speaker 7: Do go?
• 1:22:44
  Speaker 4: I will not be teased.
• 1:22:46
  Speaker 2: This is so singular, What.
• 1:22:49
  Speaker 4: That a woman should change her mind since morning? You,
• 1:22:53
  Speaker 4: I suppose, are so wonderfully constant that you change yours
• 1:22:56
  Speaker 4: only with the moon.
• 1:22:58
  Speaker 2: Do not suspect me thickleness. Permit me to prove my
• 1:23:02
  Speaker 2: constancy impossible?
• 1:23:05
  Speaker 4: Impossible? How so I see, I must tell you to
• 1:23:10
  Speaker 4: avoid altercation. Be pleased to know, then, sir, that there
• 1:23:14
  Speaker 4: is nothing on earth I detest like this sober, quiet,
• 1:23:18
  Speaker 4: prudent method of loving. Your vows, have a father's approbation,
• 1:23:24
  Speaker 4: You are expected, You enter the house without difficulty, You
• 1:23:28
  Speaker 4: yawn through an hour of commonplace. The wedding day is fixed,
• 1:23:33
  Speaker 4: and we go to church to be married in the
• 1:23:35
  Speaker 4: same humdrum stupid way that millions of dull couples have
• 1:23:39
  Speaker 4: done before us. No, no, this I cannot submit to believe.
• 1:23:45
  Speaker 2: Me Octavio aside, ah tis plain we were born for
• 1:23:51
  Speaker 2: each other. We think so exactly alike these I confess
• 1:23:56
  Speaker 2: our misfortunes. But how in our case are they to
• 1:23:59
  Speaker 2: be a void?
• 1:24:01
  Speaker 4: If you are really in earnest in your love, you
• 1:24:04
  Speaker 4: must contrive to make Don Alexis hate you. Let him
• 1:24:07
  Speaker 4: throw a thousand difficulties in the way, and then I'll
• 1:24:10
  Speaker 4: throw myself into your arms.
• 1:24:14
  Speaker 2: Oh that ecstatic promise. But your father is unhappily attached
• 1:24:19
  Speaker 2: to our marriage. What the devil can I do to
• 1:24:22
  Speaker 2: make him set his face against it?
• 1:24:24
  Speaker 4: I fear it is impossible, Poor Don Octavio. Then you
• 1:24:28
  Speaker 4: have no hopes, for I do swear by everything that
• 1:24:32
  Speaker 4: can bind me. Whilst Don Alexis approves of our nuptials,
• 1:24:36
  Speaker 4: I will never be yours.
• 1:24:38
  Speaker 2: I'll bribe fellows to slander me. Was ever so unhappy
• 1:24:42
  Speaker 2: a dilemma. I thought his approbation till this moment a blessing.
• 1:24:47
  Speaker 2: But now I would willingly make him shut his doors
• 1:24:49
  Speaker 2: against me and confine you to a grated room with
• 1:24:53
  Speaker 2: a dozen smoke dried duennasigard you.
• 1:24:57
  Speaker 4: I then, indeed things would go on gloriously. You would
• 1:25:02
  Speaker 4: be sighing and groaning without and I should be weeping
• 1:25:05
  Speaker 4: and wailing within. Then for plots and contrivances, Then for
• 1:25:11
  Speaker 4: bribes and scaling ladders, then for escapes and pursuits. Oh,
• 1:25:16
  Speaker 4: what would I not do for a man who should
• 1:25:19
  Speaker 4: bring me into such blissful difficulties.
• 1:25:22
  Speaker 2: I swear you shall be obeyed whatever I hazard aside?
• 1:25:27
  Speaker 2: Who knows but an elopement may finish the affair short
• 1:25:30
  Speaker 2: of marriage.
• 1:25:32
  Speaker 1: A bustle without the door opens a little and discovers Carlotta,
• 1:25:36
  Speaker 1: struggling to keep out Alexis.
• 1:25:39
  Speaker 15: I tell you, missus brazen, I will be amongst them.
• 1:25:44
  Speaker 8: Bless me, sir? How can you be so barbarous to
• 1:25:46
  Speaker 8: disturb the young people?
• 1:25:49
  Speaker 4: There's done, Alexis, Now begin your talk directly prevent his
• 1:25:53
  Speaker 4: coming in. If he enters, I never will be yours.
• 1:25:58
  Speaker 15: Let me in, I say, pardon me, sir.
• 1:26:01
  Speaker 2: You must not come in.
• 1:26:03
  Speaker 15: Going to the door, must not come in, or you
• 1:26:07
  Speaker 15: young dog? Well? Well tell me then? Is she kind? Hey,
• 1:26:13
  Speaker 15: my little OPTI? Is she kind?
• 1:26:15
  Speaker 2: Not quite so kind as I wish her to be?
• 1:26:18
  Speaker 15: Oh, a jade, you slut, you, you perverse baggage. I
• 1:26:24
  Speaker 15: will have you kind to Octavio.
• 1:26:26
  Speaker 2: Octavio aside, devil, take him? Why does he not bitter
• 1:26:30
  Speaker 2: dismiss me? Then she'd fly.
• 1:26:33
  Speaker 17: To my bosom octy harcty struggling with Carlotta.
• 1:26:39
  Speaker 15: Have you kissed her yet? No? Then you shall I
• 1:26:43
  Speaker 15: will see you kiss her?
• 1:26:44
  Speaker 8: By jove, Lord, sir, how can you be so rambusterous?
• 1:26:49
  Speaker 15: Calm in?
• 1:26:50
  Speaker 1: I will Sarah Fina aside.
• 1:26:53
  Speaker 4: Then go out, I must exit?
• 1:26:57
  Speaker 1: So what's she are bursting in?
• 1:27:02
  Speaker 2: Off? Yes? And now I'll be off. What woman of
• 1:27:06
  Speaker 2: delicacy could bear to be thus treated?
• 1:27:09
  Speaker 14: Or what? Father?
• 1:27:10
  Speaker 1: But you going? Now?
• 1:27:13
  Speaker 15: Dear acte, do not be angry. Do not be angry.
• 1:27:18
  Speaker 15: You have the character of one of the civilist politest, discreetest.
• 1:27:23
  Speaker 2: The character lies, Sir, I am none of these. I
• 1:27:27
  Speaker 2: am rude, ill natured, unjust, fickle, and full of extravagance.
• 1:27:32
  Speaker 15: Hey day, why I believe you are full of wine too.
• 1:27:36
  Speaker 2: I am everything you ought to dread. You could not,
• 1:27:39
  Speaker 2: in all Lisbon have picked out so hopeless a husband
• 1:27:43
  Speaker 2: for your daughter.
• 1:27:44
  Speaker 15: Oh lord, No, you are a very hopeful, young gentleman.
• 1:27:50
  Speaker 15: The character you have given of yourself would suit ye
• 1:27:53
  Speaker 15: all I doubt. But you seem so intimate with your
• 1:27:57
  Speaker 15: faults that like a stale, acquainted and they'll soon discuss thee. Therefore, fickle,
• 1:28:04
  Speaker 15: drunk or mad, my daughter shall be your wife?
• 1:28:09
  Speaker 2: Are you so obstinate, sir I?
• 1:28:13
  Speaker 15: And if she dares demure.
• 1:28:15
  Speaker 2: Oh, I am ruined. If you persist, I am ruined.
• 1:28:20
  Speaker 2: Dear Donald Lexis, pardon me. I see my scheme was ridiculous.
• 1:28:25
  Speaker 2: That better strikes me in one word, stay, let's take care.
• 1:28:30
  Speaker 2: We are not hurt. In one word, you and I
• 1:28:32
  Speaker 2: must both be in a plot against your lovely capricious daughter.
• 1:28:37
  Speaker 2: Oh now, her vivacity renders the stupid, formal, alloud courtship
• 1:28:42
  Speaker 2: intolerable to her. If you persist in countenancing my addresses,
• 1:28:47
  Speaker 2: she will hate me. But if you order her to
• 1:28:50
  Speaker 2: see me no more and allow me to steal her
• 1:28:53
  Speaker 2: out of a window or over the garden wall, she'll
• 1:28:56
  Speaker 2: be the happiest bride in Portugal.
• 1:29:00
  Speaker 15: So oh up, aerverse baggage. But I'll fit her won't
• 1:29:06
  Speaker 15: love ye merely because I order her to do it?
• 1:29:10
  Speaker 15: That she had from her mother.
• 1:29:12
  Speaker 2: You must conceal your knowledge of that, fir.
• 1:29:16
  Speaker 15: Do you imagine I don't see your whole drift?
• 1:29:18
  Speaker 7: Now?
• 1:29:19
  Speaker 15: If you was to continue talking a lapland winter, you
• 1:29:23
  Speaker 15: could not make the hint clearer, Geah, she's coming, and
• 1:29:27
  Speaker 15: my wife with her.
• 1:29:29
  Speaker 1: So do you hear you?
• 1:29:29
  Speaker 15: Signor Don Octavio speaking loudly? You are, I say you are.
• 1:29:37
  Speaker 15: You shall know what you are another time for the present.
• 1:29:41
  Speaker 15: That's your way, sir, that your way out, and I'll
• 1:29:46
  Speaker 15: be sworn ye shall never know the way in pushing.
• 1:29:49
  Speaker 1: Him out, inter Seraphina and Viola.
• 1:29:53
  Speaker 4: Why my dear husband is so mere a gudgeon? There's
• 1:29:57
  Speaker 4: no credit in deceiving.
• 1:29:58
  Speaker 1: Him to Viola.
• 1:30:01
  Speaker 4: Now remember your lesson, So, mistress.
• 1:30:05
  Speaker 15: I have dispatched your lover, have you, sir? The young rake.
• 1:30:10
  Speaker 15: Shame you're not liking him proves you have your father's penetration.
• 1:30:16
  Speaker 15: Notwithstanding his modest front. There's not such a desperate fellow
• 1:30:21
  Speaker 15: this sight of the Ganges. No, not the other side
• 1:30:25
  Speaker 15: the Black sea, My.
• 1:30:27
  Speaker 4: Sweet love, are you speaking of Don Octavio?
• 1:30:31
  Speaker 15: Yes, I am. Take care you give him no encouragement,
• 1:30:35
  Speaker 15: do ye hear, girl? No whisperings from your balcony, No
• 1:30:39
  Speaker 15: private correspondences, no belats dropped by your officies, made on
• 1:30:44
  Speaker 15: pretense they are meant for some charedy Pagd's country cousin.
• 1:30:47
  Speaker 15: Dear sir, No, penciled asignations on the back of your fan,
• 1:30:52
  Speaker 15: or cards in lemon juice to be called on detection,
• 1:30:55
  Speaker 15: secret orders to your perfumer for pearl powder and blue
• 1:31:00
  Speaker 15: of circassia.
• 1:31:01
  Speaker 4: How can you put such things in the girl's head.
• 1:31:03
  Speaker 1: Dearie, alexis aside.
• 1:31:07
  Speaker 15: That her fingers may put them in practice, to be sure.
• 1:31:10
  Speaker 15: But you are not up to me there, dearie.
• 1:31:13
  Speaker 6: But a few minutes since you were fearful sir, that
• 1:31:16
  Speaker 6: he was not received with sufficient favor.
• 1:31:20
  Speaker 15: That was that well, no matter that was perhaps to
• 1:31:26
  Speaker 15: try how far things had gone.
• 1:31:29
  Speaker 4: Oh, I beg your pardon. The curtain rises and we
• 1:31:33
  Speaker 4: see the sun. Now I understand your policy. How admirable
• 1:31:38
  Speaker 4: you middle aged gentlemen are so deep that tis difficult to.
• 1:31:42
  Speaker 15: Sifty aye, And when we are sifted, you.
• 1:31:46
  Speaker 4: Are found to be chaff. Poor dear don Octavio, send
• 1:31:51
  Speaker 4: him a garland of willows viola rather of myrtals.
• 1:31:55
  Speaker 6: He's too handsome for willows.
• 1:31:58
  Speaker 15: Handsome he is that handsome, does remember that?
• 1:32:02
  Speaker 6: Why, sir? He does handsomely. He has traveled handsomely, has
• 1:32:07
  Speaker 6: a handsome estate, has brought home a handsome character, and
• 1:32:12
  Speaker 6: now wishes for a handsome wife.
• 1:32:15
  Speaker 15: Aye, but he must go further afield to catch her,
• 1:32:18
  Speaker 15: though he'll find neither wives nor wigeons in my orchard.
• 1:32:23
  Speaker 4: No, our wigeons are all within doors.
• 1:32:26
  Speaker 6: Unfortunate that I am just made up my mind to
• 1:32:30
  Speaker 6: dismiss Sebastian, nay, absolutely to dislike him.
• 1:32:35
  Speaker 15: And now and now, why now you must make up
• 1:32:39
  Speaker 15: your mind of the way. Perhaps in my present humor
• 1:32:44
  Speaker 15: are the two fools are like Sebastian best.
• 1:32:47
  Speaker 6: But that humor must change, for I can never think
• 1:32:51
  Speaker 6: of those two young men as you do, my dear, father,
• 1:32:55
  Speaker 6: thoughts are free.
• 1:32:56
  Speaker 1: Daughter aside, Dad, I could lug her.
• 1:33:01
  Speaker 4: You see, your father generously leaves your thoughts unshackled, My dear,
• 1:33:05
  Speaker 4: he only desires to control your actions. Pray, oblige him
• 1:33:10
  Speaker 4: and take Sebastion.
• 1:33:12
  Speaker 1: Alexis aside loaned.
• 1:33:15
  Speaker 15: She knows nothing of our plot and gives that advice seriously.
• 1:33:20
  Speaker 4: He is a most accomplished young man wife, engaging in
• 1:33:25
  Speaker 4: his manners and resistless in his form.
• 1:33:29
  Speaker 15: My dear, I say, his.
• 1:33:32
  Speaker 4: Eyes are expressive, and his tongue is eloquent.
• 1:33:36
  Speaker 1: Alexis aside.
• 1:33:38
  Speaker 15: The devil's in your tongue. You don't know what you
• 1:33:42
  Speaker 15: are talking of I do.
• 1:33:44
  Speaker 4: Indeed perfectly in short viola. He is so amiable, so captivating,
• 1:33:51
  Speaker 4: and loves you with such unbounded fondness that if you
• 1:33:55
  Speaker 4: marry any other, your misery ought to equal your ingratitude.
• 1:34:00
  Speaker 15: Gad, she speaks with an air of too much conviction.
• 1:34:03
  Speaker 15: This must be managed more nicely. To your chamber, Hussey,
• 1:34:08
  Speaker 15: and try to forget Octavio.
• 1:34:10
  Speaker 4: Pushin Afiola, and remember your Sebastian. Let him be present
• 1:34:16
  Speaker 4: to you, waking and sleeping, Let.
• 1:34:18
  Speaker 15: Him zoons, let him alone.
• 1:34:21
  Speaker 1: Driving her off on the other side.
• 1:34:24
  Speaker 15: You may be doing mischief all this while. I dare
• 1:34:27
  Speaker 15: not let her into my plot, lest her perverseness or
• 1:34:31
  Speaker 15: her folly should mar it. And yet I think, no,
• 1:34:35
  Speaker 15: hang it, I won't, I won't. The only plot that
• 1:34:39
  Speaker 15: ever had a woman in it came to nothing. I'll
• 1:34:42
  Speaker 15: conduct this solely by my own sagacity, and have a
• 1:34:45
  Speaker 15: hearty laugh at the poor fools when all is over.
• 1:34:48
  Speaker 1: Ha ha ha ha, exit laughing. Seen an elegant apartment
• 1:34:55
  Speaker 1: at Don Gaspar's illuminated Rachel enters first, followed by Gasper, Antonia,
• 1:35:01
  Speaker 1: Clara and a number of ladies. Rachael looking back.
• 1:35:07
  Speaker 16: Bless us the approach of the ceremony has made my
• 1:35:10
  Speaker 16: master half out of his senses. The poor bride too
• 1:35:13
  Speaker 16: seems half out of hers, but not with joy.
• 1:35:16
  Speaker 1: If I may guess, Don Gasper keepering in and singing.
• 1:35:22
  Speaker 12: Tired of dance and song and play. Now we en
• 1:35:25
  Speaker 12: thou wedding day, Yes, yes, now for the ceremony. Come right, petty,
• 1:35:31
  Speaker 12: pet The priest is waiting in the next room to
• 1:35:33
  Speaker 12: make thee the happiest girl in Portugal, strutting. In ten
• 1:35:38
  Speaker 12: minutes that will be the wife of Don Gasper.
• 1:35:40
  Speaker 1: The Frontado Antonia aside.
• 1:35:43
  Speaker 5: Oh heaven, where is Henry Rachel? My soul sinks within me?
• 1:35:49
  Speaker 16: Truly mine is not very high.
• 1:35:52
  Speaker 12: Hey day, what's all this about?
• 1:35:55
  Speaker 16: What?
• 1:35:55
  Speaker 12: She must be coaxed? Now, I warrant they all love coaxing.
• 1:36:00
  Speaker 12: Come now, my pretty Tony, my now, little TONI.
• 1:36:03
  Speaker 1: Taking her under his arms, Antonia breaking from him?
• 1:36:08
  Speaker 5: Henry, Henry, where art thou?
• 1:36:12
  Speaker 14: Oh he mocks me?
• 1:36:14
  Speaker 12: Come let us to the priest and tie the Knot
• 1:36:17
  Speaker 12: what even Alexander, who cut the guardian, will never be
• 1:36:20
  Speaker 12: able to destroy.
• 1:36:21
  Speaker 1: Henri without Where is he?
• 1:36:24
  Speaker 14: The bridegroom, the happy bridegroom? Oh my heart, he has.
• 1:36:30
  Speaker 12: Come here he is. Here is the happy bridegroom, Henri enters. Come.
• 1:36:37
  Speaker 12: You are just in time to witness the ceremony. The
• 1:36:40
  Speaker 12: priest waits to join us in his rosy bands. Look
• 1:36:43
  Speaker 12: at her, hum, Oh, you sweet little there are smiles
• 1:36:49
  Speaker 12: and blushes for you. Look at her.
• 1:36:51
  Speaker 14: They are like those of Aurora when she flies before
• 1:36:55
  Speaker 14: the jolly God of day.
• 1:36:57
  Speaker 12: And I, the jolly God of Day, pursue her.
• 1:37:00
  Speaker 14: But charming and Tonia, the blissful fate which awaits you,
• 1:37:04
  Speaker 14: must be postponed a few hours.
• 1:37:06
  Speaker 12: Oh, sir, I am sent sent about what from whom?
• 1:37:13
  Speaker 12: Who sends you to postpone? And TONI is bliss it
• 1:37:16
  Speaker 12: is happy.
• 1:37:17
  Speaker 14: I have a token to convince you. Here, sir, do
• 1:37:21
  Speaker 14: you know this great seal ring? The impression is stay.
• 1:37:26
  Speaker 14: Can you see it?
• 1:37:28
  Speaker 1: Take in a candle.
• 1:37:29
  Speaker 14: The impression is a satyr. Look at his horns.
• 1:37:34
  Speaker 12: The devil's in such luck. A man on the wrong
• 1:37:37
  Speaker 12: side of fifty or so kept marry, but at every
• 1:37:40
  Speaker 12: turn he has horns and his teeth. If he is
• 1:37:42
  Speaker 12: invited to a tavern, that dinner is sure to be
• 1:37:44
  Speaker 12: at the horns. They'll wake me with horns to borrow
• 1:37:48
  Speaker 12: morning nay, I am even kept from the ceremony to
• 1:37:51
  Speaker 12: night to be regaled with the fight of.
• 1:37:54
  Speaker 1: Horns, Antonia to Clara, What can be the purport of
• 1:37:58
  Speaker 1: the ring?
• 1:38:00
  Speaker 6: Can hardly breathe through terror?
• 1:38:02
  Speaker 14: Do you know them, sir?
• 1:38:04
  Speaker 12: Know them? Yes, they are Don Alexis's horns, not mine.
• 1:38:09
  Speaker 12: It is his ring. But what have I to do
• 1:38:11
  Speaker 12: with it any more, with the ring of Saturn or
• 1:38:14
  Speaker 12: the belt of Jupiter. If you are for rings, you
• 1:38:17
  Speaker 12: shall see one. Presently take in Antonia's hand on this
• 1:38:22
  Speaker 12: waxen finger that.
• 1:38:24
  Speaker 14: You will not hear me, sir. This is a token
• 1:38:27
  Speaker 14: from Don Alexis. Observe me, sir, a token by which
• 1:38:33
  Speaker 14: you are required, as counselor of the realm, to meet
• 1:38:35
  Speaker 14: Don Alexis immediately at his own house on affairs of
• 1:38:39
  Speaker 14: imminent importance.
• 1:38:41
  Speaker 12: Meet Don Alexis. What is he mad? Or are you mad?
• 1:38:46
  Speaker 12: Or does he think me mad? Go prilly? I'll meet him.
• 1:38:49
  Speaker 1: Tomorrow, seizing Antonia's hand.
• 1:38:52
  Speaker 12: My service to his night cap, going man to morrow.
• 1:38:58
  Speaker 14: Why all our throats may be cut by tomorrow?
• 1:39:01
  Speaker 12: Hey, throat scup?
• 1:39:04
  Speaker 14: Why, sir, there's a plot, a plot, a.
• 1:39:08
  Speaker 1: Plot, Clara to Antonia.
• 1:39:12
  Speaker 7: Now I have his design, My dear don Gasper. At
• 1:39:17
  Speaker 7: a juncture so important, every selfish consideration must be annihilated.
• 1:39:22
  Speaker 7: Should our discontented citizens take arms.
• 1:39:26
  Speaker 14: Nay for aught? I know there are in arms already arms.
• 1:39:30
  Speaker 12: Well, what can I do? Fight? Dog, fight bear?
• 1:39:33
  Speaker 1: I'll be married, going Rachel dropping on her knee.
• 1:39:39
  Speaker 16: Oh, dear sir, There'll be nothing but rapes and murder.
• 1:39:43
  Speaker 16: I'll take pity on us, poor virgin, sir, and go.
• 1:39:47
  Speaker 1: Don't be a fool striving to get free.
• 1:39:51
  Speaker 7: Consider, sir, the good of the nation.
• 1:39:54
  Speaker 16: Ay, sir, the good of the nation. What wouldn't the
• 1:39:57
  Speaker 16: body do for the good of the nation.
• 1:40:00
  Speaker 12: Good of the nation will be ashamed. Go go Jolio
• 1:40:05
  Speaker 12: and vote for me. I'll make you my proxy, your
• 1:40:08
  Speaker 12: proxy there, sir, No, no excuse me, but hasten whilst
• 1:40:14
  Speaker 12: you dally all.
• 1:40:15
  Speaker 14: Lisbon may be fired.
• 1:40:18
  Speaker 12: If there's such danger. I am safest here to Antonia.
• 1:40:22
  Speaker 12: Ain't the duc oh sir.
• 1:40:26
  Speaker 5: If you can resist the calls of honor, do not
• 1:40:28
  Speaker 5: resist me. To marry in the midst of such horrible
• 1:40:32
  Speaker 5: apprehensions is impossible, and my fears are so great they
• 1:40:36
  Speaker 5: will destroy me. Sweet DoD Gaspar, go.
• 1:40:41
  Speaker 12: Nay, then come my dear nephew. Let us go together.
• 1:40:46
  Speaker 12: But a step will I move without you?
• 1:40:48
  Speaker 1: Henria sighed, no miserable to be thus circumvented.
• 1:40:54
  Speaker 14: Had I not better stay here to guard that?
• 1:40:56
  Speaker 12: Stay here? Oh, you are a dutiful nephew. Now, sir,
• 1:41:01
  Speaker 12: you shall guide me if I stir. But I won't
• 1:41:04
  Speaker 12: stir by all.
• 1:41:05
  Speaker 5: Fight ant Julio surely will not defend your uncle. Leave
• 1:41:09
  Speaker 5: him in the street and return instantly apart a jew
• 1:41:14
  Speaker 5: sweet bridegroom.
• 1:41:17
  Speaker 1: Helping to get him out, speak quickly back, looking after them.
• 1:41:23
  Speaker 5: Ah, but fine, then Sonia gone, dear liberty, I hail
• 1:41:30
  Speaker 5: thee oh Rachel. Now I claim thy, promise, assist my
• 1:41:35
  Speaker 5: flight and make thy terms unfortune follow follow me exit?
• 1:41:42
  Speaker 16: I will, But let me consider first what I have
• 1:41:46
  Speaker 16: engaged to do to make my fortune? Why I am
• 1:41:50
  Speaker 16: to assist a pretty girl to run away from an
• 1:41:53
  Speaker 16: old husband to a young one, from age goud and
• 1:41:56
  Speaker 16: petulance to youth, health and glowing love? Aye that I will?
• 1:42:02
  Speaker 16: Or may I never arrive at higher honor than to
• 1:42:05
  Speaker 16: attend missus in da bibs and ancient maidens in their spectacles.
• 1:42:10
  Speaker 1: In the vect four, Act five of a school for
• 1:42:20
  Speaker 1: Grapeards or The Morning Bride by Hannah Cowley. This is
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• 1:42:30
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• 1:42:37
  Speaker 1: Act five an apartment at Don Alexis's a table with
• 1:42:41
  Speaker 1: candles and chairs. He enters, followed by a servant.
• 1:42:46
  Speaker 15: Hey day, Why what's the meaning of all this? The
• 1:42:50
  Speaker 15: family are all up though it is past twelve o'clock,
• 1:42:54
  Speaker 15: and my wife's apartment in a blaze, illuminated as though
• 1:42:58
  Speaker 15: with some grand anniversary. What's the meaning of all this?
• 1:43:02
  Speaker 13: I say, Dona Surfina has ladies with her, Sir. They've
• 1:43:07
  Speaker 13: been playing.
• 1:43:08
  Speaker 15: Playing Go get Along, and let me know when they
• 1:43:11
  Speaker 15: break up.
• 1:43:13
  Speaker 1: Exit a servant.
• 1:43:15
  Speaker 15: There's no having any rest in this world. No, or
• 1:43:19
  Speaker 15: at least not for the husbands of this world. This
• 1:43:23
  Speaker 15: custom of letting one's wives receive female company is like
• 1:43:27
  Speaker 15: shutting your gates upon the enemy and then helping them
• 1:43:30
  Speaker 15: over the wall. Not a woman but has her head
• 1:43:33
  Speaker 15: full of projects and her pockets of billets doux. Well,
• 1:43:38
  Speaker 15: if at last Don Octavio should really marry my daughter,
• 1:43:42
  Speaker 15: I shall then hope inter servant Don Gasper.
• 1:43:46
  Speaker 13: Defrontado is without Sir.
• 1:43:49
  Speaker 15: Don Gasper, Don Gasper, It can't be.
• 1:43:53
  Speaker 13: He is, indeed sir, attended by most of his servants withdraws,
• 1:43:57
  Speaker 13: swords and torches.
• 1:43:59
  Speaker 15: Swords and torches. Why he's mad? The near approach of
• 1:44:04
  Speaker 15: matrimony has turned his brain. Well, no, great wonder looking
• 1:44:10
  Speaker 15: through the wing, it is Gasper, sure enough, what a figure,
• 1:44:17
  Speaker 15: Gasper speaking as he.
• 1:44:18
  Speaker 12: Enters, bless me while he is quiet. All is quiet,
• 1:44:23
  Speaker 12: my dear nephew, looking back, Ah, what's he gone? Not
• 1:44:29
  Speaker 12: the voice in the street, but two old women quarreling
• 1:44:31
  Speaker 12: about a string of sausages.
• 1:44:34
  Speaker 1: Alexis aside, Ay, it is so.
• 1:44:38
  Speaker 15: He is certainly crazy. I am very sorry, Don Gasper.
• 1:44:44
  Speaker 1: Gravely taking off his hat.
• 1:44:47
  Speaker 15: That anything should have happened to call you from your
• 1:44:50
  Speaker 15: house at this time.
• 1:44:52
  Speaker 12: My house. That's nothing from my bride, from my little toldy,
• 1:44:57
  Speaker 12: from the very old my friend, but that is nothing.
• 1:45:02
  Speaker 12: The good of the nation must be minded. Come let
• 1:45:05
  Speaker 12: us fit into business.
• 1:45:07
  Speaker 15: As soon as you please. Aside zoons what a time
• 1:45:13
  Speaker 15: for him to think on the good of the nation.
• 1:45:17
  Speaker 1: They both draw chairs and sit looking at one another,
• 1:45:20
  Speaker 1: waiting for each to begin.
• 1:45:24
  Speaker 12: Be brief, my good friend, be brief.
• 1:45:27
  Speaker 15: Brief, Why we haven't begun yet?
• 1:45:30
  Speaker 12: And why the devil don't we? How long am I
• 1:45:32
  Speaker 12: to wait before the mighty matter is brought upon the carpet?
• 1:45:35
  Speaker 12: You consider that I am on the point of being married, sir.
• 1:45:38
  Speaker 15: Pray, sir, what would you be at?
• 1:45:42
  Speaker 12: I be at? I want to know what you would
• 1:45:44
  Speaker 12: be at?
• 1:45:46
  Speaker 15: Ha ha ha ha oh. Why this is the strangest thing
• 1:45:50
  Speaker 15: to see an old fellow high in the state the
• 1:45:53
  Speaker 15: night he should be married, forsake his bride and come
• 1:45:56
  Speaker 15: with a train, armed cap a pie to disturb another
• 1:46:00
  Speaker 15: old fellow and ask him what he would be at?
• 1:46:04
  Speaker 15: What's your business? Once more?
• 1:46:06
  Speaker 12: My business? With whom?
• 1:46:09
  Speaker 15: With me?
• 1:46:10
  Speaker 1: Sir?
• 1:46:10
  Speaker 15: With me? What the devil do you do here?
• 1:46:14
  Speaker 12: That's what I want to know, sir. And you'd best
• 1:46:17
  Speaker 12: be quick in a relation. You seem to think time
• 1:46:20
  Speaker 12: of no more value to me than straw.
• 1:46:22
  Speaker 1: Alexis rising aside a straw that it is.
• 1:46:30
  Speaker 15: I thought he was mad. They never think of anything
• 1:46:33
  Speaker 15: but straw. I am sorry you are disturbed.
• 1:46:37
  Speaker 1: Don gasper, gasper pursuing him.
• 1:46:41
  Speaker 12: The disturbance is nothing if you were But come to
• 1:46:43
  Speaker 12: the point. What is the plot? Where are the conspirators,
• 1:46:48
  Speaker 12: and what do they aim at?
• 1:46:50
  Speaker 15: Poor soul, Poor soul, My dear friend, you really shock
• 1:46:56
  Speaker 15: me very much. Though I knew your marriage was a
• 1:46:59
  Speaker 15: mad action, I did not think it would have taken
• 1:47:02
  Speaker 15: effect so soon.
• 1:47:04
  Speaker 1: What this is beyond old bearing making emotion as though
• 1:47:09
  Speaker 1: to his sword, and seems disappointed?
• 1:47:13
  Speaker 12: No sort. Meet me tomorrow, sir, Meet me tomorrow, Oh.
• 1:47:18
  Speaker 1: With all my heart aside.
• 1:47:22
  Speaker 15: By that time, you'll be in a strait waistcoat, and
• 1:47:25
  Speaker 15: I shall be safe.
• 1:47:27
  Speaker 12: I am cooler. Such old men as we are can
• 1:47:30
  Speaker 12: afford to waste no blood. But there's your ring, sir.
• 1:47:34
  Speaker 12: Let that be the last token of good or ill?
• 1:47:36
  Speaker 12: Will you ever sin?
• 1:47:37
  Speaker 19: Me?
• 1:47:38
  Speaker 1: Flinging the ring from him? My ring, taking it from
• 1:47:43
  Speaker 1: the floor.
• 1:47:44
  Speaker 15: Why how came you? Who gave you this ring? Who
• 1:47:48
  Speaker 15: gave it you?
• 1:47:49
  Speaker 12: Why did not did not? Oh? My mind misgives me.
• 1:47:56
  Speaker 15: You had it from your nephew.
• 1:47:58
  Speaker 12: Eh yes, ha ha.
• 1:48:02
  Speaker 15: Ha oh a young rogue, Oh, a plotting young villain?
• 1:48:07
  Speaker 15: Ha ha ha ha.
• 1:48:09
  Speaker 12: What did I have? Oh? Shame to my years? I've
• 1:48:14
  Speaker 12: been made a jest of a jest.
• 1:48:17
  Speaker 15: Heven grant you may be made nothing worse of. Hurry home,
• 1:48:21
  Speaker 15: my dear friend, you know what I said to day
• 1:48:23
  Speaker 15: about your bride's odd fancies. Hurry home and be thankful.
• 1:48:28
  Speaker 12: If it is a jest, what do you imagine do
• 1:48:31
  Speaker 12: you conceive? Oh, my dear dear friend, Behold, you are
• 1:48:36
  Speaker 12: in the plot. The ring is yours. You're in the plot.
• 1:48:42
  Speaker 15: Believe me, Don Gasper.
• 1:48:44
  Speaker 12: Oh, what a beetle, what a bat I've been never
• 1:48:49
  Speaker 12: repay your jest with interest in the first place, And
• 1:48:52
  Speaker 12: that's only for a beginning, mind me, only for a beginning.
• 1:48:57
  Speaker 12: My Octavia shall never marry a daughter. Would you like
• 1:49:00
  Speaker 12: that jest? Oh? With the blind blindo.
• 1:49:05
  Speaker 1: Going off stepping, Alexis going after him.
• 1:49:10
  Speaker 15: My dear Don Gasper, my friend, my worthy friend, I
• 1:49:13
  Speaker 15: entreat soon's he's gone. If it had not been for
• 1:49:19
  Speaker 15: his choke pair about Octavio, how I could laugh? Why
• 1:49:24
  Speaker 15: what the plague did that impertinent Don Julio take such
• 1:49:27
  Speaker 15: a liberty with my ring?
• 1:49:29
  Speaker 2: For?
• 1:49:30
  Speaker 15: How dared he haul my head and ears into his
• 1:49:33
  Speaker 15: scheme to laugh at his worthy uncle? But zeukes, it
• 1:49:37
  Speaker 15: is a good laugh after all.
• 1:49:39
  Speaker 16: Ha ha.
• 1:49:41
  Speaker 15: But if Gasper, now those bite should prevent Octavio's marriage?
• 1:49:47
  Speaker 15: What's to be done? Hang me? If I go to
• 1:49:50
  Speaker 15: bed tonight. I'll find out Octavio wherever he is, make
• 1:49:53
  Speaker 15: him steal my daughter, conclude the marriage, and then I'll
• 1:49:57
  Speaker 15: laugh with Julio till my old side's exit.
• 1:50:03
  Speaker 1: Scene changes to the street before Don Gasper's enter. Don Henry,
• 1:50:09
  Speaker 1: he knocked gently at the door.
• 1:50:12
  Speaker 14: I dare not be louder, but sure the ear of
• 1:50:15
  Speaker 14: love can catch the gentlest sound.
• 1:50:18
  Speaker 1: Rachel from the balcony.
• 1:50:20
  Speaker 16: Oh are you come, sir, I'll call my lady down.
• 1:50:23
  Speaker 14: Oh haste the minutes fly. I have secured a safe retreat.
• 1:50:27
  Speaker 14: Leave all behind and bring Antonia only to my arms.
• 1:50:31
  Speaker 1: A noise of people advancing?
• 1:50:35
  Speaker 14: What noise is that? And lights too? They come this way?
• 1:50:40
  Speaker 14: If surely does Don Gasper's voice. I am breathless with
• 1:50:43
  Speaker 14: my fears.
• 1:50:45
  Speaker 12: Gasper, without put out your lights, extinguish your torches, and
• 1:50:51
  Speaker 12: be silent.
• 1:50:53
  Speaker 14: Ay tis he shall I plunge the sword into his
• 1:50:57
  Speaker 14: bosom or my own? Why the way? I am lost?
• 1:51:03
  Speaker 1: Tom Gasper enters and knocks loudly.
• 1:51:08
  Speaker 12: Yes, yes, I'll be a match for his great Grandsireh's
• 1:51:11
  Speaker 12: ring trust.
• 1:51:12
  Speaker 1: Me, knocks again. Rachel from the balcony.
• 1:51:19
  Speaker 14: We are just.
• 1:51:19
  Speaker 16: Ready, sir, have a moment's patience.
• 1:51:22
  Speaker 12: Just ready for worth. Oh, I'm arriving in the very
• 1:51:25
  Speaker 12: nick of some cursed.
• 1:51:26
  Speaker 1: Scheme to his servants.
• 1:51:29
  Speaker 12: Keep your swords drawn. Come on, I give way the suspicions.
• 1:51:34
  Speaker 12: She shall have fair play. Appearances may deceive.
• 1:51:39
  Speaker 1: The door opens. Antonia enters.
• 1:51:42
  Speaker 14: Ha, by heaven, Antonia, we are ruined.
• 1:51:45
  Speaker 5: Where are you my best wishes? Lord of my thousand,
• 1:51:49
  Speaker 5: charmer of my soul?
• 1:51:50
  Speaker 4: Where are you?
• 1:51:52
  Speaker 14: Oh?
• 1:51:52
  Speaker 1: Heavens half drawing his sword?
• 1:51:56
  Speaker 12: Well, well, that may be all meant for me.
• 1:51:59
  Speaker 5: Give be your hand, my love, my life, and guide
• 1:52:03
  Speaker 5: me to your bosom, a home for which I pant hum.
• 1:52:07
  Speaker 12: There is rather too much too. I'm afraid that's too
• 1:52:11
  Speaker 12: sweet a morsel to be pent for my chops.
• 1:52:14
  Speaker 1: Antonia grouped about.
• 1:52:16
  Speaker 10: Oh are you here?
• 1:52:18
  Speaker 5: Indeed you frightened me with your silence. Here, take these
• 1:52:23
  Speaker 5: jewels and let us haste away.
• 1:52:26
  Speaker 12: Ha ha, Are you thereabouts, madam between his teeth?
• 1:52:32
  Speaker 1: Then I am cousin henry aside to.
• 1:52:36
  Speaker 14: Attempt to fall so off would be in vain.
• 1:52:40
  Speaker 4: Will you not speak?
• 1:52:42
  Speaker 5: Do you repent already before possession?
• 1:52:45
  Speaker 14: Are you cold and false?
• 1:52:48
  Speaker 12: Before? Ah?
• 1:52:50
  Speaker 4: Ah?
• 1:52:51
  Speaker 12: Well, that's great comfort, whatever is designed. I am beforehand
• 1:52:54
  Speaker 12: with the mischief.
• 1:52:55
  Speaker 4: However, am I not to be your wife this very day?
• 1:53:00
  Speaker 5: Did we not invoke Heaven to bless our vowels?
• 1:53:04
  Speaker 7: Now?
• 1:53:04
  Speaker 12: Then tis clearly me and I'll be mute no longer.
• 1:53:08
  Speaker 2: Oh Henry, Henry Gasper, starting.
• 1:53:13
  Speaker 12: Who dost thou take me for Henry? Oh the perfidious
• 1:53:19
  Speaker 12: rich Don Gasper?
• 1:53:22
  Speaker 5: What will become of me?
• 1:53:24
  Speaker 14: Why?
• 1:53:25
  Speaker 5: Why are you so angry, sir at my naming one
• 1:53:27
  Speaker 5: who when the cold grave cannot rival you? I was
• 1:53:31
  Speaker 5: only going to say that Henry would not have been
• 1:53:34
  Speaker 5: so unkindly silent?
• 1:53:36
  Speaker 12: Was that dull? Indeed, my little tony, what was wrong
• 1:53:40
  Speaker 12: to think upon the young man? Never let your thoughts
• 1:53:43
  Speaker 12: read upon the young man, whether in a grave or
• 1:53:45
  Speaker 12: a garret.
• 1:53:46
  Speaker 5: Never, sir, be assured, neither in one place or the other.
• 1:53:51
  Speaker 5: Will my thoughts ever seek a lover? But why did
• 1:53:54
  Speaker 5: you not speak.
• 1:53:56
  Speaker 12: Faith, you prat of love so prettily I could have
• 1:54:00
  Speaker 12: heard your little tongue run forever. But how came you
• 1:54:03
  Speaker 12: out so late? And with these jewels and parcels?
• 1:54:07
  Speaker 20: Sir ha I was why, Sir alas Sir, we thought
• 1:54:13
  Speaker 20: the city was in arms, and pecked up our things
• 1:54:15
  Speaker 20: to secure them, Lord, sir, we were so scared about
• 1:54:19
  Speaker 20: plots and robberies.
• 1:54:21
  Speaker 16: And yes, sir, terrified to death.
• 1:54:25
  Speaker 12: Oh it's all quilled now it is all over, my
• 1:54:27
  Speaker 12: pretty jack. As soon as I appeared amongst them and
• 1:54:30
  Speaker 12: threatened them and harangued them on their duty, they were
• 1:54:33
  Speaker 12: as silent as the soft tread of a thief on
• 1:54:35
  Speaker 12: a dark staircase. Aside, I am resolved, she shan't know
• 1:54:40
  Speaker 12: what a gull I was. Come now, let's in enjoin
• 1:54:45
  Speaker 12: our tender hearts in one.
• 1:54:47
  Speaker 5: Pardon me, sir. They is on the point of breaking
• 1:54:50
  Speaker 5: dear welcome day, and I am resolved to pass it,
• 1:54:54
  Speaker 5: unbound by any vows but those of love. How and
• 1:55:00
  Speaker 5: this one point, sir, I must govern or hear, I
• 1:55:03
  Speaker 5: vow most solemnly never to be yours.
• 1:55:08
  Speaker 12: Oh it's a rash vow, a most unjustifiable vow.
• 1:55:13
  Speaker 16: Not so rash a vow as that you want her
• 1:55:16
  Speaker 16: to make.
• 1:55:17
  Speaker 12: What's that minx.
• 1:55:19
  Speaker 16: Why, sir? With submission, I say it's most ration and
• 1:55:23
  Speaker 16: unjustifiable for eighteen to rise out of bed and go
• 1:55:27
  Speaker 16: to church to vow to love sixty five and I'll
• 1:55:31
  Speaker 16: maintain it.
• 1:55:33
  Speaker 12: But the vow was made hussy, And all vows must
• 1:55:36
  Speaker 12: be kept, religiously kept, and therefore it goes against me.
• 1:55:42
  Speaker 12: Even this last shall be kept. So come in, my
• 1:55:46
  Speaker 12: little tony, and learn of your noun habby never to
• 1:55:49
  Speaker 12: break a vow.
• 1:55:51
  Speaker 1: All go in that s accuse me.
• 1:55:55
  Speaker 14: Her delicacy is safe from insult. When I see her next,
• 1:56:00
  Speaker 14: be with powers to suppress his audacious, fancied rights and
• 1:56:04
  Speaker 14: close the necessity for these degrading acts forever.
• 1:56:09
  Speaker 1: Exit scene changes to Donna Alexis's garden. He enters leading
• 1:56:14
  Speaker 1: in octavio.
• 1:56:17
  Speaker 15: Gad, I am glad I found ye twas devilish lucky
• 1:56:21
  Speaker 15: Viola is certainly somewhere in the garden. Both my wife
• 1:56:25
  Speaker 15: and Corlada assured me that she was.
• 1:56:28
  Speaker 2: And the ladder of ropes is suspended from the place
• 1:56:30
  Speaker 2: he pointed.
• 1:56:31
  Speaker 15: Out exactly there, I helped afict it myself. Tis very secure.
• 1:56:37
  Speaker 2: The dear little mad cap must have a way, But
• 1:56:40
  Speaker 2: tis strange. She prefers scaling a wall at midnight to
• 1:56:44
  Speaker 2: walking quietly through the gate in the sunshine. Hist I
• 1:56:48
  Speaker 2: hear the tread of gentle feet.
• 1:56:50
  Speaker 15: Then I'm off. If she should find us together, the
• 1:56:54
  Speaker 15: perverse baggage would suspect our intelligence, and that would spoil all.
• 1:56:59
  Speaker 14: So I'm off.
• 1:57:01
  Speaker 2: Exceit in a few hours. Expect to set your feet,
• 1:57:06
  Speaker 2: asking pardon and blessing, A pause, charming wielda appear I
• 1:57:14
  Speaker 2: hear you not yet by the soft influence about me,
• 1:57:17
  Speaker 2: I am sure you are near. What delightful faculty is
• 1:57:21
  Speaker 2: this which allows us to be conscious of the presence
• 1:57:24
  Speaker 2: of the object we adore without the vulgar intervention of
• 1:57:27
  Speaker 2: the senses. It must be the privilege of purest love,
• 1:57:33
  Speaker 2: Seraphina entering.
• 1:57:35
  Speaker 4: The privilege of fancy, all mere fancy, though you would
• 1:57:40
  Speaker 4: exalt it into a faculty.
• 1:57:43
  Speaker 2: Ha, my charmer catching her in his arms. Faculties and
• 1:57:48
  Speaker 2: fancies are now equally nothing, all lost in transport. At
• 1:57:52
  Speaker 2: finding thee in.
• 1:57:53
  Speaker 4: My arms, I protest. I begin to believe you very dangerous.
• 1:57:58
  Speaker 4: I insist on your quitting me this.
• 1:58:00
  Speaker 1: Instant breaking from him.
• 1:58:03
  Speaker 4: Aside, heavens, what a situation in the arms of a
• 1:58:08
  Speaker 4: man alone in a garden at two o'clock in the morning.
• 1:58:14
  Speaker 2: What dost think of, sweet Angel?
• 1:58:16
  Speaker 4: That the sooner we are out of this place, the.
• 1:58:18
  Speaker 1: Better I'll save you?
• 1:58:20
  Speaker 2: Aside, suppose I secure her mind? I almost fear some
• 1:58:25
  Speaker 2: new caprice, And if I mistake not, her little heart
• 1:58:30
  Speaker 2: flutters at this moment and unison in my own, dear
• 1:58:34
  Speaker 2: bewitching woman, let me once more.
• 1:58:36
  Speaker 4: Taste, hold sir, or by all that's good.
• 1:58:41
  Speaker 1: Breaking from him aside.
• 1:58:44
  Speaker 4: I never knew till now what resistance meant.
• 1:58:47
  Speaker 2: By heavens. I will not lose this charming moment.
• 1:58:51
  Speaker 4: Then you lose me forever. Make your election.
• 1:58:55
  Speaker 2: This moment is presented to us by love. Let us
• 1:58:58
  Speaker 2: prove ourselves worthy of the boon.
• 1:59:01
  Speaker 4: How by disgracing love.
• 1:59:04
  Speaker 2: Will argue that point here after.
• 1:59:06
  Speaker 4: But now, hold sir, I am neither blind to your
• 1:59:10
  Speaker 4: intention nor to my own danger. But know you are
• 1:59:13
  Speaker 4: meditating an irremediable crime.
• 1:59:17
  Speaker 2: How you are immediable. Love itself shall remedy the crimes
• 1:59:21
  Speaker 2: it makes.
• 1:59:23
  Speaker 4: Huh, You know not what you speak of, nor can
• 1:59:26
  Speaker 4: I explain myself. But let us fly.
• 1:59:30
  Speaker 2: Then we will fly, my little trembler, and hymen shall
• 1:59:34
  Speaker 2: yet stay.
• 1:59:35
  Speaker 4: I cannot go with you alone. You must consent that
• 1:59:38
  Speaker 4: a lady accompanies us who no matter. You must promise
• 1:59:43
  Speaker 4: me without asking questions, to conduct her safely to Don Sebastian,
• 1:59:49
  Speaker 4: and then to conduct me into safety to your father's.
• 1:59:53
  Speaker 2: To my ghostly father, you mean to a priest.
• 1:59:56
  Speaker 4: No, to don Gasper, on those terms, I scale the
• 2:00:00
  Speaker 4: wall with you, and on no other.
• 2:00:03
  Speaker 2: It is odd and mysterious, but I'll scale walls with
• 2:00:07
  Speaker 2: you on any terms. Where is the lady?
• 2:00:11
  Speaker 4: We shall find her in the next walk. Oh no,
• 2:00:14
  Speaker 4: she is hastening.
• 2:00:15
  Speaker 1: Hither interveola veiled.
• 2:00:19
  Speaker 4: Come fair damsel. This is the valorous knight who is
• 2:00:23
  Speaker 4: to conduct us through all the intervening dragons and giants
• 2:00:27
  Speaker 4: to the quiet and sober pail of matrimony, where we
• 2:00:31
  Speaker 4: shall grow good and stupid and recollect the kind action
• 2:00:36
  Speaker 4: of this night with matronly thankfulness and decency.
• 2:00:41
  Speaker 2: Octavio aside tis a vile thought and sticks most indigestibly.
• 2:00:50
  Speaker 2: Why must love be thus shackled? I feel I shall
• 2:00:54
  Speaker 2: repent and leave the pail that I am fairly caught
• 2:00:58
  Speaker 2: now and must submit. Come, my little fawns, take each
• 2:01:02
  Speaker 2: an arm yead. Let us make haste, or some unlucky ideas,
• 2:01:08
  Speaker 2: which are growing rather ponderous, will prevent my flight over
• 2:01:11
  Speaker 2: the wall.
• 2:01:13
  Speaker 4: I'll be hanged if it is not the idea of
• 2:01:15
  Speaker 4: matrimony you find so heavy, But be of good comfort,
• 2:01:19
  Speaker 4: signor and make speed. Your fate has prepared a consolation
• 2:01:24
  Speaker 4: you little expect.
• 2:01:26
  Speaker 1: Excellent scene, don Gasper's he enters.
• 2:01:32
  Speaker 12: Well, they at last is broad awake, and the vile
• 2:01:36
  Speaker 12: night which cloaks so many schemes in villainous plots, against
• 2:01:39
  Speaker 12: the peace of where her husband's has passed away. And
• 2:01:43
  Speaker 12: all have gone well, Yes, all hath gone well, except
• 2:01:47
  Speaker 12: with my poor aching bones and sleepless eyes. Spent all
• 2:01:51
  Speaker 12: these hours upon annat at Antonia's chamber door. They not
• 2:01:55
  Speaker 12: leave it. Truly, she is a treasurer. But if to
• 2:01:59
  Speaker 12: secure it I must seg out the rent of my
• 2:02:01
  Speaker 12: life in these alarms and the fears and misgivings, well,
• 2:02:07
  Speaker 12: well tis too late now to think about that. My
• 2:02:10
  Speaker 12: hour has come.
• 2:02:12
  Speaker 13: And to a servant, do Octavio and a lady, sir.
• 2:02:17
  Speaker 1: Except Octaville enters leading Seraphina veiled.
• 2:02:23
  Speaker 2: Permit me, sir, to ask a protection from this lady
• 2:02:26
  Speaker 2: for a few hours. If you knew her, you would
• 2:02:29
  Speaker 2: think she had a right to claim it.
• 2:02:31
  Speaker 12: To claim it? Why who is she.
• 2:02:36
  Speaker 2: That I am forbid to tell? Do you release me
• 2:02:39
  Speaker 2: from my promise? Madam?
• 2:02:41
  Speaker 4: No? Certainly, And yet if I did, it were much
• 2:02:44
  Speaker 4: the same thing for.
• 2:02:46
  Speaker 12: You do not know me, not know the lady.
• 2:02:50
  Speaker 4: Believe me he does not, And yet if you ask him,
• 2:02:53
  Speaker 4: he'll swear he does.
• 2:02:56
  Speaker 2: Surely. Though you are veiled, I can swear you are
• 2:02:58
  Speaker 2: the same sweet melt creature who in a certain.
• 2:03:01
  Speaker 4: Garden found herself in your arms, and afterwards leapt the
• 2:03:06
  Speaker 4: wall with you. That you may safely swear, yes, I know.
• 2:03:10
  Speaker 2: You, not who admit me apart? Perhaps you'll deny being
• 2:03:16
  Speaker 2: whom I am to marry today.
• 2:03:19
  Speaker 4: Oh no, I swear I will marry you today if
• 2:03:22
  Speaker 4: Don Alexis gives consent.
• 2:03:24
  Speaker 2: We have more than his consent its ardent wishes.
• 2:03:28
  Speaker 4: Yet I shall not be yours.
• 2:03:31
  Speaker 2: Why what a sweet enigmatical charmer you are.
• 2:03:35
  Speaker 1: Seravena to Don gasper if I.
• 2:03:38
  Speaker 4: Mistake not, sir, this house has a mistress. May I
• 2:03:42
  Speaker 4: be permitted to wait on Donna Antonia?
• 2:03:45
  Speaker 12: Madam?
• 2:03:47
  Speaker 2: Octavia whispers, Oh, yes, a rank and reputation, but a
• 2:03:54
  Speaker 2: little capricious.
• 2:03:56
  Speaker 12: Pardon me, madam, I will wait on you to Antonia's apartment. Aside,
• 2:04:02
  Speaker 12: I shan't care to leave them together.
• 2:04:03
  Speaker 1: Though, exit leading Seraphina, What can.
• 2:04:07
  Speaker 2: She mean with her riddle me? Wreas I am perplexed.
• 2:04:12
  Speaker 1: Sebastian enters with Viola.
• 2:04:16
  Speaker 2: Hah, don't Sebastian, what the weighty ceremony is? So lightly over, Madam,
• 2:04:22
  Speaker 2: I wish you all the joys which belong to your
• 2:04:25
  Speaker 2: new state. Dear Sebastian, taking him aside, tell me how
• 2:04:32
  Speaker 2: dost feel feel I In a few hours I shall
• 2:04:38
  Speaker 2: be in the same class that I want to guess
• 2:04:41
  Speaker 2: how it is If.
• 2:04:42
  Speaker 3: You love as I do, you'll feel as I do. Blessed.
• 2:04:50
  Speaker 2: I fear all you married rogues are so many decoy ducks.
• 2:04:54
  Speaker 2: You look up with envy and cry quaer querer to
• 2:04:57
  Speaker 2: your fellows at large, And when you have coke us
• 2:05:00
  Speaker 2: into the snare, clap your wings and exult.
• 2:05:04
  Speaker 1: Viola running to Sebastian.
• 2:05:06
  Speaker 6: Oh, I hear my father's voice. I would not have
• 2:05:08
  Speaker 6: him see you at this instant apart Pondon my freedom,
• 2:05:13
  Speaker 6: don Octavio. But it will be infinitely kind if you
• 2:05:17
  Speaker 6: both leave me.
• 2:05:19
  Speaker 3: Those fears are idle, my charmer. The moment must arrive.
• 2:05:26
  Speaker 6: Nay, do not stay to argue, but oblige me.
• 2:05:30
  Speaker 2: What sir so much of a husband in half an
• 2:05:32
  Speaker 2: hour should dispute a command? I'll take him to task,
• 2:05:36
  Speaker 2: Madam and give him a lesson on obedience.
• 2:05:39
  Speaker 17: Excellent, alexis without Octavio and a lady veiled entering, then
• 2:05:48
  Speaker 17: all is right?
• 2:05:50
  Speaker 15: Ah viola, Well tell me is it all over? Are
• 2:05:55
  Speaker 15: you married? Yes, sir, Yes, sir, enough said ha ha ha.
• 2:06:03
  Speaker 15: Now I can laugh at Gasper and enjoy Don Julia's
• 2:06:06
  Speaker 15: joke ha ha ha ha ha. And you too, you
• 2:06:10
  Speaker 15: have been finely nicked. I have been obliged to cheat
• 2:06:14
  Speaker 15: you into marrying the man you liked.
• 2:06:16
  Speaker 5: Ha ha ha ha.
• 2:06:18
  Speaker 6: Oh, sir, forgive what I have done, forgive thee my girl.
• 2:06:22
  Speaker 15: Ay that I will. Here's my hand on it. Ah,
• 2:06:27
  Speaker 15: Don Gasper, he enters, your most obedient, very humble servant.
• 2:06:34
  Speaker 15: How do you find yourself after your last night's whim?
• 2:06:37
  Speaker 1: Sir?
• 2:06:38
  Speaker 15: My seal ring is at your service at any time,
• 2:06:42
  Speaker 15: Don Gasper, ha two jokes at once. I shall laugh
• 2:06:48
  Speaker 15: now till I'm a grandfather.
• 2:06:51
  Speaker 12: If you laugh till my Octavia makes your grandfather, it
• 2:06:54
  Speaker 12: will be a very long fit, I promise you.
• 2:06:57
  Speaker 15: Do you think so? I'll trust him is.
• 2:07:00
  Speaker 12: Now in the next room, at the feet of a
• 2:07:02
  Speaker 12: young lady whose charms are sufficient, I trust to blot
• 2:07:07
  Speaker 12: those of your daughter from his heart.
• 2:07:10
  Speaker 15: What's that, Octavio, at the feed of a lady? Do
• 2:07:14
  Speaker 15: you hear that? Viola?
• 2:07:16
  Speaker 12: Your daughter? Pardon me, fair lady.
• 2:07:19
  Speaker 15: Ay, sir, and your daughter too, your daughter, let me
• 2:07:25
  Speaker 15: see you encourage her husband to kneel to other women
• 2:07:28
  Speaker 15: in your house? Her husband zone, sir, This is no
• 2:07:33
  Speaker 15: laughing matter. How dare you, sir? Why the older? Why
• 2:07:39
  Speaker 15: don't you rave and storm as women do on these occasions?
• 2:07:43
  Speaker 6: Alas, sir, I have no right.
• 2:07:46
  Speaker 14: No right.
• 2:07:47
  Speaker 15: I shall see that here, Don Octavio, I say, the
• 2:07:52
  Speaker 15: very day of his marriage. Nay, within the hour.
• 2:07:56
  Speaker 2: Inter Octavio, Don alexis pasure.
• 2:08:01
  Speaker 15: My pleasure, sir? Is that zounds that your pleasure shall
• 2:08:05
  Speaker 15: be with my daughter?
• 2:08:07
  Speaker 2: It is very kind. Nothing can make me so happy.
• 2:08:11
  Speaker 1: Then?
• 2:08:12
  Speaker 15: What the devil do you mean by by your father
• 2:08:16
  Speaker 15: says you were at the feet of a lady?
• 2:08:19
  Speaker 2: I was you was? Why should that offend you? Do
• 2:08:24
  Speaker 2: you not wish me to love your daughter?
• 2:08:27
  Speaker 15: Love my daughter and kneel to another?
• 2:08:31
  Speaker 2: Oh mistake, sir, another, I'll convince you that Viola alone.
• 2:08:37
  Speaker 1: Going to the wing.
• 2:08:39
  Speaker 2: Here she comes the dear lovely girl who left a
• 2:08:42
  Speaker 2: garden wall to give a sober marriage the air of
• 2:08:45
  Speaker 2: a romance ounds?
• 2:08:48
  Speaker 15: Where am I? Are not you my daughter?
• 2:08:52
  Speaker 1: Twitching off Viola's veil?
• 2:08:55
  Speaker 2: Yes?
• 2:08:56
  Speaker 15: Did you not leap the wall with him?
• 2:08:59
  Speaker 1: Yes? Sir?
• 2:09:01
  Speaker 15: And are you not married?
• 2:09:03
  Speaker 17: I am indeed, Curtin.
• 2:09:07
  Speaker 15: And did you, madam leap a wall?
• 2:09:11
  Speaker 14: Yes?
• 2:09:11
  Speaker 1: Sir?
• 2:09:13
  Speaker 15: And are you married too?
• 2:09:15
  Speaker 21: I am indeed, throws up her veil and curtsys my
• 2:09:21
  Speaker 21: wife hound, my wife, amazement, his wife.
• 2:09:27
  Speaker 12: His wife leaped the wall with my Octavia. I'll led
• 2:09:32
  Speaker 12: another five hundred more theres to your yearly allowance for that,
• 2:09:34
  Speaker 12: my boy, pretty dear dawn, indulge you laugh. You're in
• 2:09:39
  Speaker 12: a very fine vein a minute ago. I'll love till
• 2:09:43
  Speaker 12: you are grandfather, Don Octavio.
• 2:09:46
  Speaker 4: I have used you ill, but I trust your generosity
• 2:09:49
  Speaker 4: will pardon my taking advantage of your partiality for me
• 2:09:53
  Speaker 4: to serve two amiable and faithful lovers.
• 2:09:57
  Speaker 2: You have used me ill? Indeed, yet hang it come,
• 2:10:02
  Speaker 2: I am not married. I am not married. However aside, yes, madam,
• 2:10:08
  Speaker 2: I can forgive you, but how shall I forgive myself?
• 2:10:13
  Speaker 2: I had you, oh distraction, I had you alone amidst
• 2:10:18
  Speaker 2: the conscious shades of night, and in my power.
• 2:10:22
  Speaker 4: Pardon me, sir, No, woman can be alone nor in
• 2:10:26
  Speaker 4: the power of any man, while she respects herself and
• 2:10:30
  Speaker 4: disguarded by a sense of her duty. You see, on
• 2:10:34
  Speaker 4: alexis what benefits arise from plodding without a woman?
• 2:10:39
  Speaker 15: Oh, I shall be mad. So it was my wife then,
• 2:10:45
  Speaker 15: to whom you were kneeling, And it was you whom
• 2:10:48
  Speaker 15: I pressed yesterday to grant him some small favors.
• 2:10:52
  Speaker 4: Just so, my sweet hubby.
• 2:10:55
  Speaker 12: Oh, come be merry, old gentleman, a companion for your
• 2:11:00
  Speaker 12: seal ring to jokes at once.
• 2:11:03
  Speaker 15: I you have it all nothing now to Octavio, and
• 2:11:10
  Speaker 15: you have the impudence to love my wife.
• 2:11:14
  Speaker 2: More than ever. Now there's no danger of matrimony.
• 2:11:17
  Speaker 15: And you are now considering when you shall make me
• 2:11:20
  Speaker 15: a saytor A, come be frank.
• 2:11:25
  Speaker 14: When is it to be faith?
• 2:11:27
  Speaker 2: I wish I could tell.
• 2:11:29
  Speaker 4: I will answer for him. It shall be never, whilst
• 2:11:33
  Speaker 4: you repose a generous confidence in me and allow me
• 2:11:36
  Speaker 4: to be the guardian of my own honor.
• 2:11:39
  Speaker 1: Don't gasper goes out?
• 2:11:42
  Speaker 2: Now? I entreat you, my dear don Alexis, be a
• 2:11:45
  Speaker 2: very tyrant suspect her, watch her and confine her. Will
• 2:11:50
  Speaker 2: you be so much? My friend?
• 2:11:52
  Speaker 15: I don't know what I shall be yet both as
• 2:11:55
  Speaker 15: husband and father, I have ingeniously contrived to bite myself most.
• 2:12:00
  Speaker 1: Damnably to viola.
• 2:12:03
  Speaker 15: As for you, madam, bread and water and a dark
• 2:12:07
  Speaker 15: chamber shall be your lot.
• 2:12:09
  Speaker 3: Sebastian entering, No, Sir, I am the arbiter of her lot. However,
• 2:12:17
  Speaker 3: I confirm half your punishment, and a dark chamber she
• 2:12:21
  Speaker 3: shall certainly have.
• 2:12:24
  Speaker 15: What then thou art really married and married to Sebastian.
• 2:12:32
  Speaker 6: Dear sir, you assured me that of the two fools,
• 2:12:35
  Speaker 6: you preferred him.
• 2:12:38
  Speaker 15: Yes, but I depend on your perverseness, hussy.
• 2:12:42
  Speaker 12: Yesper leading in Antonia, come you who have not seen
• 2:12:47
  Speaker 12: my little pet be older? Nay a present her to
• 2:12:51
  Speaker 12: yell as a pattern of meanness and perfect love. Oh,
• 2:12:55
  Speaker 12: it's a sweet.
• 2:12:56
  Speaker 5: Putsy meekness alas you should not answer, for you know
• 2:13:01
  Speaker 5: I am a woman, my perfect love. Indeed you may
• 2:13:05
  Speaker 5: the world has not a heart so truly wedded as Antonia's.
• 2:13:10
  Speaker 5: Behold its master, its lawful lord, my husband.
• 2:13:16
  Speaker 1: Pointing to the opposite door, Don Henry.
• 2:13:19
  Speaker 14: Entering, come my Antonia to his arms. Yes, I am
• 2:13:25
  Speaker 14: thy husband. Now I stand boldly forward and proclaim my title.
• 2:13:30
  Speaker 14: I am thy husband, that dear distinction which Heaven has
• 2:13:34
  Speaker 14: blessed me with. Heaven only shall reclaim what am I
• 2:13:40
  Speaker 14: to lose?
• 2:13:40
  Speaker 2: My mother as well as my wife Alexis de gasper.
• 2:13:45
  Speaker 15: Your nephew, Why is this full moon? We are all
• 2:13:50
  Speaker 15: going to run out of our wit.
• 2:13:52
  Speaker 4: Don't be disheartened, though it should be so you'll not
• 2:13:56
  Speaker 4: how far to run?
• 2:13:58
  Speaker 12: My Julio?
• 2:14:00
  Speaker 14: What in the name of ners, sir, not Jolio, but
• 2:14:05
  Speaker 14: Don Henry, that Don Henry, whom you so basely reported
• 2:14:10
  Speaker 14: to be dead, that you might dishonor him in security?
• 2:14:15
  Speaker 12: How?
• 2:14:16
  Speaker 2: Why?
• 2:14:17
  Speaker 12: Why you are dead as good as dead? You are
• 2:14:21
  Speaker 12: dead in the law. You are outlawed, banished.
• 2:14:25
  Speaker 14: Nor sir, neither restored to my country. Behold my pardon,
• 2:14:33
  Speaker 14: as youre as.
• 2:14:34
  Speaker 12: A paper, your pardon. Hum now, then I see the
• 2:14:40
  Speaker 12: hall I must be telling my secrets? What the devil
• 2:14:44
  Speaker 12: to it? Well? You got it through me.
• 2:14:47
  Speaker 14: You know.
• 2:14:48
  Speaker 12: You may thank the music of my moder is for
• 2:14:50
  Speaker 12: that dance.
• 2:14:51
  Speaker 1: No, sir, throwing down a purse.
• 2:14:55
  Speaker 14: There is the gold you basely bartered for the pardon
• 2:14:58
  Speaker 14: you solicited. My pardon I obtained from the hands of
• 2:15:03
  Speaker 14: Majesty itself, from our gracious Queen. Oh when her kingdom's
• 2:15:09
  Speaker 14: foes provoke correction from her subject's arms, Then shall my
• 2:15:13
  Speaker 14: sword again be drawn, nor ask for forgiveness for its
• 2:15:17
  Speaker 14: ardent duty?
• 2:15:19
  Speaker 12: Well, very well, but what has your pardon to do
• 2:15:24
  Speaker 12: with my wife?
• 2:15:25
  Speaker 1: Put in her behind him?
• 2:15:28
  Speaker 12: What are you to do with Tony?
• 2:15:30
  Speaker 3: She is my.
• 2:15:31
  Speaker 14: Wife, made mine by contract before you destined her the
• 2:15:35
  Speaker 14: bliss of being yours. Pardon me, then, my sweet.
• 2:15:39
  Speaker 1: Antonia taken her from Gasper.
• 2:15:43
  Speaker 14: If I deprive you of this venerable charmer and give
• 2:15:46
  Speaker 14: you in his place a husband.
• 2:15:49
  Speaker 1: Hoem A sings.
• 2:15:53
  Speaker 15: Oh, once I was a merry old man, but now
• 2:15:57
  Speaker 15: the case has changed. Who could have thought that my
• 2:16:01
  Speaker 15: old seal ring would ever have been a talisman to
• 2:16:04
  Speaker 15: make lovers happy and save a graybeard from folly?
• 2:16:09
  Speaker 4: Come don, Gasper, Let me advise you to think your
• 2:16:13
  Speaker 4: loss again. You see in your humble servant what mischievous
• 2:16:17
  Speaker 4: creatures young wives are. She'd plague your heart out as
• 2:16:22
  Speaker 4: I do my old husband's faith.
• 2:16:26
  Speaker 15: She says, true. A minute ago I thought the laugh
• 2:16:30
  Speaker 15: on my side, But to still on your own. You
• 2:16:35
  Speaker 15: have lost a young wife, and I have found one.
• 2:16:40
  Speaker 12: Why to say truth? If it were not that? At
• 2:16:44
  Speaker 12: present I feel a little awkward. I don't know very
• 2:16:47
  Speaker 12: well which we to look. As to your contract, I
• 2:16:51
  Speaker 12: might perhaps dispute its powers, But as here is a
• 2:16:53
  Speaker 12: stroke or two of mine which may be I sha'n't
• 2:16:56
  Speaker 12: be sorry to have dropped even go to church in
• 2:16:59
  Speaker 12: God's name, and when you come home, beware plots and
• 2:17:02
  Speaker 12: seal rings.
• 2:17:04
  Speaker 5: This is generous. The sentiments you professed for me, I
• 2:17:09
  Speaker 5: see will be converted to a more decent regard, and
• 2:17:12
  Speaker 5: we shall all be united in bands of charming friendship.
• 2:17:17
  Speaker 15: Glad, this looks like a sort of general amnesty. So
• 2:17:21
  Speaker 15: let the frolic go round.
• 2:17:24
  Speaker 1: To the house.
• 2:17:25
  Speaker 15: But dare my fault hope forgiveness here? Yes? I am
• 2:17:30
  Speaker 15: on this spot an old offender, and have so often
• 2:17:35
  Speaker 15: gratefully experienced the candor of my judges that I trust
• 2:17:39
  Speaker 15: now to meet their pardon and invoke the greatest sign.
• 2:17:44
  Speaker 1: In EVECT five.
• 2:17:47
  Speaker 4: Epilogue, a morning bride that would be something new that
• 2:17:53
  Speaker 4: I am a morning husband is too true, cries old
• 2:17:57
  Speaker 4: Sir Testy in his gouty chair. Ah could I wedlock's
• 2:18:02
  Speaker 4: fatal slip repair? But young wives are a sort of
• 2:18:06
  Speaker 4: flying gout torments for which no cure was ever found.
• 2:18:10
  Speaker 4: Out both old men's plagues to punish youthful tricks equally difficult.
• 2:18:16
  Speaker 4: I fear to fix of wife and gout alike. I
• 2:18:20
  Speaker 4: stand in dread for both alas sometimes affect the head.
• 2:18:27
  Speaker 4: Thus rail old cynics striving to disparage the charming, silken
• 2:18:33
  Speaker 4: ties of modern marriage. In former times, when folks agreed
• 2:18:38
  Speaker 4: to wed, the silent bride by silent bridegroom led up
• 2:18:43
  Speaker 4: to the altar, marched in solemn state, all was demure
• 2:18:48
  Speaker 4: and stupidly sedate, impressed with awe, while neither dare to speak.
• 2:18:55
  Speaker 4: A wedding was a mere ballet tragique. Thank Heaven were
• 2:18:59
  Speaker 4: pass the ages of romance. Wedlock is now a kind
• 2:19:03
  Speaker 4: of country dance, where man and wife, with smiles each other,
• 2:19:07
  Speaker 4: greet take hands, change sides, and part as soon as
• 2:19:13
  Speaker 4: meet pleasure's soft accents. Every care to spell while hymen
• 2:19:19
  Speaker 4: fiddles vive la bagatelle, blessed age. When ceremony's chains are
• 2:19:26
  Speaker 4: worn like bracelets, not to fetter but adorn. When we
• 2:19:32
  Speaker 4: assume deep Morning's fable show tis etiquette prescribes the form
• 2:19:37
  Speaker 4: of woe. Whatever our loss, we must have fashions leave
• 2:19:42
  Speaker 4: ere we can venture decently to grieve blameless the air
• 2:19:47
  Speaker 4: or the dear parchment chuckles if he's unpowdered, and puts
• 2:19:52
  Speaker 4: on black buckles, till the gray frock speaks his first
• 2:19:57
  Speaker 4: anguish ore, and he's but as wretched as before. Ere
• 2:20:03
  Speaker 4: the gay widow first abroad is seen decked an exhilarating bombazine,
• 2:20:09
  Speaker 4: while the dear colonel visits unexpected, and she's as well
• 2:20:14
  Speaker 4: as could have been expected. Customs indulgence wisely does she
• 2:20:19
  Speaker 4: borrow in cards of compliments, exhausts her sorrow of tears,
• 2:20:25
  Speaker 4: Her black edged paper fills the place, mourns as her proxy,
• 2:20:30
  Speaker 4: and preserves her face. Our mourning bride, who with no sorrow,
• 2:20:35
  Speaker 4: labors and mourns, but in appearance, like her neighbors, though
• 2:20:41
  Speaker 4: forced by etiquette good humor, loves as well as any
• 2:20:46
  Speaker 4: here blessed in the fate which these kind smiles decree her.
• 2:20:51
  Speaker 4: She hopes her friends will often come to see.
• 2:20:55
  Speaker 1: Her an address. I offered the following comedy to the
• 2:21:00
  Speaker 1: public under a circumstance which has given my mind the
• 2:21:04
  Speaker 1: most exquisite uneasiness. On the morning after the first representation,
• 2:21:09
  Speaker 1: it was observed by the papers that there had been
• 2:21:12
  Speaker 1: persons present at the theater the preceding evening who went
• 2:21:16
  Speaker 1: there determined to disapprove at all events. From such a determination,
• 2:21:21
  Speaker 1: it is hard, indeed, to escape, and the opposition intended
• 2:21:26
  Speaker 1: was justified, it seems, by the indecency of some of
• 2:21:29
  Speaker 1: the expressions from such a charge. I feel it impossible
• 2:21:33
  Speaker 1: to defend myself, for against an imputation like this, even
• 2:21:38
  Speaker 1: vindication becomes disgraceful. As I was not at the theater,
• 2:21:43
  Speaker 1: I should have had some difficulty in understanding at what
• 2:21:46
  Speaker 1: passages the objections were leveled, had not one of the
• 2:21:49
  Speaker 1: papers recorded them with many cruel remarks. The particulars which
• 2:21:54
  Speaker 1: were thus pointed out, will I trust, be sufficient apology
• 2:21:58
  Speaker 1: for themselves. In the following pages they are all restored
• 2:22:03
  Speaker 1: that the public at large may have the power to
• 2:22:05
  Speaker 1: adjudge me, as well as that small part of it
• 2:22:08
  Speaker 1: confined within the walls of a theater. These passages have
• 2:22:12
  Speaker 1: not been restored from any pertinacious opinion of their beauty,
• 2:22:17
  Speaker 1: For other expressions might have conveyed my intention as well.
• 2:22:21
  Speaker 1: But had I allowed one line to stand as altered
• 2:22:24
  Speaker 1: for the stage, what might not that reprobated line have
• 2:22:28
  Speaker 1: been supposed to express I shrink from the idea, and
• 2:22:32
  Speaker 1: therefore most solemnly aver that the comedy as now printed
• 2:22:36
  Speaker 1: contains every word which was opposed the first night from
• 2:22:39
  Speaker 1: the suspicion of indelicacy, hoping their obvious meanings only will
• 2:22:44
  Speaker 1: be attended to without the coarse ingenuity of strained explanations
• 2:22:49
  Speaker 1: which have been made by persons who seemed desires to
• 2:22:52
  Speaker 1: surround my task of dramatic writing with as many difficulties
• 2:22:56
  Speaker 1: as possible. A celebrated critic more attended to for the
• 2:23:01
  Speaker 1: discrimination and learning which appear in his strictures than for
• 2:23:05
  Speaker 1: their lydity. In his observations on the Graybeards, has the following.
• 2:23:11
  Speaker 1: When missus Kallak gets possession of the spirit and turn
• 2:23:14
  Speaker 1: of a character, she speaks the language of that character
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  Speaker 1: better than any of her dramatic contemporaries. This, I confess
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  Speaker 1: I hold to be very high praise. And it is
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  Speaker 1: to this very praise which my contemporaries resolve. I shall
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  Speaker 1: have no claim. They will allow me, indeed to draw
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  Speaker 1: strong character, but it must be without speaking its language.
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  Speaker 1: I may give vulgar or low bred persons, but they
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  Speaker 1: must converse in a style of elegance. I may design
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  Speaker 1: the coarsest manners or the most disgusting folly, but its
• 2:23:47
  Speaker 1: expressions must not deviate from the line of politeness. Surely
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  Speaker 1: it would be as just to exact from the artists
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  Speaker 1: who are painting the gallery of Shakespeare, that they should
• 2:23:59
  Speaker 1: complete their desire without the use of light and shade.
• 2:24:03
  Speaker 1: It cannot be the poet's mind which the public desire
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  Speaker 1: to trace in dramatic representation, but the mind of the
• 2:24:10
  Speaker 1: characters and the truth of their coloring. Yet in my
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  Speaker 1: case it seems resolved that the point to be considered
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  Speaker 1: is not whether that Dottard, or that pretender, or that
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  Speaker 1: Coquette would so have given their feelings, but whether missus
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  Speaker 1: Kelly ought so to have expressed herself. This is a
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  Speaker 1: criterion which happily no author is subjected to, but those
• 2:24:32
  Speaker 1: of the drama. The novelists may use the boldest tints,
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  Speaker 1: seizing nature for her guide. She may dart through every
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  Speaker 1: rank of society, drag forth not only the accomplished, but
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  Speaker 1: the ignorant, the course and the vulgar rich, display them
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  Speaker 1: in their strongest colors, snatch immortality both for them and
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  Speaker 1: for herself. I, on the contrary, feel encompassed with chains
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  Speaker 1: when I write, which check me in my happiest flights,
• 2:25:00
  Speaker 1: and forced me continually to reflect not whether this is just,
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  Speaker 1: but whether it is safe. There are vain regrets which
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  Speaker 1: I hope my readers will pardon me for having a
• 2:25:10
  Speaker 1: moment indulged. I now hasten to that part of the comedy,
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  Speaker 1: which will be found in the following sheets, as altered
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  Speaker 1: for the second representation. The idea of the business which
• 2:25:22
  Speaker 1: concerns Antonia, Henry and Gasper was presented to me in
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  Speaker 1: an obsolete comedy, the work of a poet of the drama,
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  Speaker 1: once highly celebrated. I say the idea, for when it
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  Speaker 1: is known that in the original the scene lay amongst
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  Speaker 1: traitors in the city of London, and those traitors of
• 2:25:41
  Speaker 1: the lowest and most detestable manners, it will be conceived
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  Speaker 1: at once that in removing it to Portugal and fixing
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  Speaker 1: the characters amongst the nobility, it was hardly possible to
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  Speaker 1: carry with me more than the idea. The circumstance which
• 2:25:57
  Speaker 1: most particularly interested me and fixed itself of my mind,
• 2:26:01
  Speaker 1: was that of snatching a young woman from a hateful marriage.
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  Speaker 1: The moment before that marriage became valid, that is to say,
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  Speaker 1: after the ceremony. This very circumstance to which the comedy
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  Speaker 1: owes its existence was that which some of the audience
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  Speaker 1: found discordant to their feelings. An event which had in
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  Speaker 1: the last century been stamped with the highest applause, though
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  Speaker 1: surrounded by many repulsive circumstances, was found in this to
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  Speaker 1: be ill conceived. I did not, however, dispute the decision
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  Speaker 1: of my critics, and the marriage has been, in course dissolved.
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  Speaker 1: The manner in which the comedy has since been received
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  Speaker 1: gives room to suppose that the alteration is approved. It
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  Speaker 1: has struggled with many oppressive circumstances. The chasm in the performance,
• 2:26:49
  Speaker 1: occasioned by the repeated illness of mister Parsons, was sufficient
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  Speaker 1: to have sunk it. But neither that, nor the sterile
• 2:26:57
  Speaker 1: month of December, always against the theaters, has prevented its
• 2:27:01
  Speaker 1: being distinguished by many brilliant and crowded nights. I now
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  Speaker 1: resign it to the closet, where, without the aid of
• 2:27:07
  Speaker 1: fine acting or the fascinations of beauty, and deriving all
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  Speaker 1: its little force from the pen which composed it, it
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  Speaker 1: hopes still to amuse the innocent flame of Seraphinus coquetry
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  Speaker 1: may still shed race of delight on her readers, and
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  Speaker 1: the affecting situation of Antonia interests them. Hannah Cowley, end
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  Speaker 1: of an Address, end of a School for Graybeards or
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  Speaker 1: The Morning Bride by Hannah Cowley