The works of John Dryden, $c now first collected in eighteen volumes. $p Volume 06 by John Dryden
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have her name down in my almanack, I warrant her.
_Jud._ What, kiss and tell, father Aldo? kiss and tell! [_Exit._ _Mrs Brain._ I'll go and pass an hour with Mrs Tricksy. [_Exit._ _Enter_ LIMBERHAM. _Brain._ What, the lusty lover Limberham! _Enter_ WOODALL, _at another door._ _Aldo._ O here's a monsieur, new come over, and a fellow-lodger; I must endear you two to one another. _Brain._ Sir, 'tis my extreme ambition to be better known to you; you come out of the country I adore. And how does the dear Battist[8]? I long for some of his new compositions in the last opera. _A propos!_ I have had the most happy invention this morning, and a tune trouling in my head; I rise immediately in my night-gown and slippers, down I put the notes slap-dash, made words to them like lightning; and I warrant you have them at the circle in the evening. _Wood._ All were complete, sir, if S. Andre would make steps to them. _Brain._ Nay, thanks to my genius, that care's over: you shall see, you shall see. But first the air. [_Sings._] Is it not very fine? Ha, messieurs! _Limb._ The close of it is the most ravishing I ever heard! |
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