The Works of Henry Fielding - Edited by George Saintsbury in 12 Volumes $p Volume 12 by Henry Fielding
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[Footnote 1: Mr Banks hath copied this almost verbatim:
It was enough to say, here's Essex come, And nurses still'd their children with the fright. --_Earl of Essex_. ] _Nood_. But hark! [1]these trumpets speak the king's approach. [Footnote 1: The trumpet in a tragedy is generally as much as to say, Enter king, which makes Mr Banks, in one of his plays, call it the trumpet's formal sound.] _Dood_. He comes most luckily for my petition. [_Flourish_. SCENE II.--KING, QUEEN, GRIZZLE, NOODLE, DOODLE, FOODLE. _King_. [1] Let nothing but a face of joy appear; The man who frowns this day shall lose his head, That he may have no face to frown withal. Smile Dollallolla--Ha! what wrinkled sorrow [2] Hangs, sits, lies, frowns upon thy knitted brow? |
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