Sir Chas. O brave squire! Hast. My worthy friend! Mrs. Hard. My undutiful offspring! Marl. Joy, my dear George, I give you joy sincerely. And could I prevail upon my little tyrant here to be less arbitrary, I should be the happiest man alive if you would return me the favor. Hast. (To Miss Hardcastle) Come, madam, you are now driven to the very last scene of all your contrivances. I know you like him, I'm sure he loves you, and you must and shall have him. Hard. (Joining their hands.) And I say so too. And, Mr. Marlow, if she makes as good a wife as she has a daughter, I don't believe you'll ever repent your bargain. So, now to supper. To-morrow we shall gather all the poor of the parish about us, and the mistakes of the night shall be crowned with a merry morning. So, boy, take her; and, as you have been mistaken in the mistress, my wish is that you may never be mistaken in the wife. [Exeunt Omnes. EPILOGUE.' Spoken by Mrs. Bulkley in the character of MISS HARDCASTLE. Dotes upon dancing, and in all her pride Swims round the room, the Heinel of Cheapside;" 1 Goldsmith wrote two other epilogues to this comedy, neither of which, however, appears to have been spoken. See pp. 140, 144, and letter XXV. in Vol. IV. 2 Madame Heinel was a favorite dancer in London when this epilogue was spoken. Ogles and leers with artificial skill, Till, having lost in age the power to kill, She sits all night at cards, and ogles at spadille. 1 EPILOGUE." To be spoken in the character of ToNY LUMPKIN. BY J. CRADOCK, ESQ.3 WELL-now all's ended-and my comrades gone, Why should not I in the great world appear? In the fourth volume of "A Collection of Prologues and Epilogues," 4 vols. 12mo, 1779, there is a characteristic full-length portrait of Mrs. Bulkley in the dress she wore when she spoke this epilogue. Mrs. Bulkley (originally Miss Wilford) died in 1792. She was famous as Lady Racket. 2 This came too late to be spoken.-GOLDSMITH. See Goldsmith's Letter to Cradock, in vol. iv. 3 Joseph Cradock, Esq., of Gumley, in Leicestershire. He was among the last survivors of Goldsmith's circle, and is now favorably remembered by his "Memoirs," 5 vols. 8vo, 1828. He died December 15, 1826, in his eighty-fifth year. To Sadler's Wells, perhaps, or operas go, |