She Stoops to Conquer by Oliver Goldsmith
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Toroddle, toroddle, toroll.
OMNES. Bravo, bravo! FIRST FELLOW. The 'squire has got spunk in him. SECOND FELLOW. I loves to hear him sing, bekeays he never gives us nothing that's low. THIRD FELLOW. O damn anything that's low, I cannot bear it. FOURTH FELLOW. The genteel thing is the genteel thing any time: if so be that a gentleman bees in a concatenation accordingly. THIRD FELLOW. I likes the maxum of it, Master Muggins. What, though I am obligated to dance a bear, a man may be a gentleman for all that. May this be my poison, if my bear ever dances but to the very genteelest of tunes; "Water Parted," or "The minuet in Ariadne." SECOND FELLOW. What a pity it is the 'squire is not come to his own. It would be well for all the publicans within ten miles round of him. TONY. Ecod, and so it would, Master Slang. I'd then show what it was to keep choice of company. SECOND FELLOW. O he takes after his own father for that. To be sure old 'Squire Lumpkin was the finest gentleman I ever set my eyes on. For winding the straight horn, or beating a thicket for a hare, or a wench, he never had his fellow. It was a saying in the place, that he |
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