[The Works of Charles Lamb in Four Volumes, Volume 4 by Charles Lamb]@TWC D-Link bookThe Works of Charles Lamb in Four Volumes, Volume 4 PROLOGUE, SPOKEN BY MR 120/217
I have seen him in these lunes before.
His abstractions must not taint the good mirth. _John_ (_continuing to soliloquize_).
O for some friend, now, To conceal nothing from, to have no secrets. How fine and noble a thing is confidence, How reasonable, too, and almost godlike! Fast cement of fast friends, band of society, Old natural go-between in the world's business, Where civil life and order, wanting this cement, Would presently rush back Into the pristine state of singularity, And each man stand alone. (_A servant enters_.) _Servant_.
Gentlemen, the fireworks are ready. 1_st Gent_.
What be they? _Lovel_.
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