School for Scandal by Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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CHARLES. Pshaw--you may do both--Caesar made Love and Laws
in a Breath--and was liked by the Senate as well as the Ladies-- but no man can pretend to be a Believer in Love, who is an abjurer of wine--'tis the Test by which a Lover knows his own Heart-- fill a dozen Bumpers to a dozen Beauties, and she that floats atop is the maid that has bewitched you. CARELESS. Now then Charles--be honest and give us yours---- CHARLES. Why I have withheld her only in compassion to you-- if I toast her you should give a round of her Peers, which is impossible! on earth! CARELESS. O, then we'll find some canonized Vestals or heathen Goddesses that will do I warrant---- CHARLES. Here then--Bumpers--you Rogues--Bumpers! Maria--Maria---- FIRST GENTLEMAN. Maria who? CHARLES. Oh, damn the Surname 'tis too formal to be register'd in Love's calendar--but now Careless beware--beware--we must have Beauty's superlative. FIRST GENTLEMAN. Nay Never study[,] Careless--we'll stand to the Toast--tho' your mistress should want an eye--and you know you have a song will excuse you---- CARELESS. Egad so I have--and I'll give him the song instead of the Lady.---- |
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