[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 149/217
They are gone .-- Mark, love, how cheerfully I speak! I can smile too, and I almost begin To understand what kind of creature Hope is. _Marg_.
Now this is better, this mirth becomes you, John. _John_.
Yet tell me, if I overact my mirth, (Being but a novice, I may fall into that error.) That were a sad indecency, you know. _Marg_.
Nay, never fear. I will be mistress of your humors, And you shall frown or smile by the book. And herein I shall be most peremptory, Cry, "This shows well, but that inclines to levity; This frown has too much of the Woodvil in it, But that fine sunshine has redeem'd it quite." _John_.
How sweetly Margaret robs me of myself! _Marg_.
<<Back Index Next>> D-Link book Top TWC mobile books
|