Love for Love: a Comedy by William Congreve
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SCAN. Yes, I have a poet weighing words, and selling praise for
praise, and a critic picking his pocket. I have another large piece too, representing a school, where there are huge proportioned critics, with long wigs, laced coats, Steinkirk cravats, and terrible faces; with cat-calls in their hands, and horn-books about their necks. I have many more of this kind, very well painted, as you shall see. MRS FRAIL. Well, I'll come, if it be but to disprove you. SCENE XIV. [To them] JEREMY. JERE. Sir, here's the steward again from your father. VAL. I'll come to him--will you give me leave? I'll wait on you again presently, MRS FRAIL. No; I'll be gone. Come, who squires me to the Exchange? I must call my sister Foresight there. SCAN. I will: I have a mind to your sister. MRS FRAIL. Civil! TATT. I will: because I have a tendre for your ladyship. |
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