Category: Humour
There he is: dost see him? just turning by St. Antony in the corner. Now, do you tell him that your mistress is not at home; and if his jealous donship should insist on searching the house, as he did yesterday, say that somebody is ill--the black has got a fever, or that----
_Inis._ Pho! what signifies wearing sweets in her bosom, unless they would sweeten her manners?--'tis amazing you can be so much at your ease; one might think your lady's tongue...
14. SCENE IV.--DON CÆSAR'S._Min._ There, sir, please to sit down, till my lady is ready to wait on you--she won't be long----I'm sure she's out, and I may do great things before she returns. [_Aside.--Exi...
10. SCENE II.--DON CÆSAR'S._Min._ Why, ma'am, as I was in the balcony that overlooks Don Vasquez's garden, Donna Marcella told me, that Don Cæsar had last night been to pay her a visit previous to their m...
5. SCENE III.--_Another Apartment._Vin._ Presto, presto, signior! where is the Olivia?--not a moment to spare. I left off in all the fury of composition; minums and crotchets have been battling it through my hea...
4. SCENE II.--DON CÆSAR'S._Oliv._ [_Speaks as entering._] If my father should inquire for me, tell him I am in Donna Victoria's apartment.--Smiling, I protest! my dear gloomy cousin, where have you purch...
7. SCENE II.--_The Prado._Car._ All hail to the powers of burgundy! Three flasks to my own share! What sorrows can stand against three flasks of burgundy? I was a damned melancholy fellow this morning,...
12. SCENE II.--DONNA LAURA'S._Vict._ It is, indeed; and I will leave you to make every advantage of it. [_Crosses_, R.] If I am present, I must witness condescensions from you, that I shall not be able to b...
1. SCENE I.--_A Street in Madrid.There he is: dost see him? just turning by St. Antony in the corner. Now, do you tell him that your mistress is not at home; and if his jealous donship should insist on searchin...
9. SCENE I.--DONNA LAURA'S._Laura._ Is it possible? so contemptuously to destroy the letter, in which my whole heart overflowed with tenderness! Oh, how idly I talk! he is here: his very voice pierces my...
8. SCENE III.--_An Apartment in the house of_ DON VASQUEZ, MARCELLA'S_Cæsar._ Why, these fair girls are so stared at by the men; and the young fellows, now-a-days, have a damned impudent stare with them--'tis very abashing to a woman--very distre...
6. SCENE I.--_A long Street._Julio._ That may be; but if ever I trust to a veil again, may no lovely, blooming beauty ever trust me. Why dost know, I have been an hour at the feet of a creature, whose firs...
13. SCENE III.--_The Prado._Min._ Ah, here comes the man at last, after I have been sauntering in sight of his lodgings these two hours. Now, if my scheme takes, what a happy person I shall be! and sure,...
3. SCENE I.--_An Apartment at_ DONNA LAURA'S._Laura._ This rage would have been all cool insolence had I waited for your change--Scarcely would you have deigned to form a phrase of pity for me; perhaps have bid me forget a...
11. SCENE I.--DON CARLOS'S._Car._ [_Tearing paper, and rising._] It is in vain!--Language cannot furnish me with terms, to soften to Victoria the horrid transaction. Could she see the compunctions of my s...
16. Act V, scene II15. Act IV, scene II