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CHARACTERS . OLD A . SHFOHD . POET . MIGNIONETTE . THE MASTER . MARY ANNE ASUFORD . MRS . CHOKElt . YOUNG ASHVORD . I , . . JEMIMA OllOKBlt . SCENE I . A WILL ON THE BANK OF THE RIVER AVON . A boating party about to embark . The Master . Are we all ready ? Omnes . All , all , all . Old Ashford . Steady now , steady . One at a time . Put the boat nearer , boy , or we shall be sure to get into mischief . Mary Anne . Into the water you mean , my dear sir . Old Ashford . Gently , gently . Are you comfortably seated , girls 'I Master . One more on this side , if you please , to balance the boat . Young Ashford . It must not be you , Mary Anne ; you carry so much sail we shall be capsized at once . Master . That will do . Now , lad , push off . L . What a delicious day ! Young Ashford . There never was a finer for such an expedition . Mary Anne . I would not change with the Dey of Algiers , whatever his expedition might be . Poet . On such a day did Phaeton , young and proud , Urge on the fiery coursers of the sun , Till goaded into madness , they no more Obeyed the curb , but chased the flying wind Till heaven and earth grew hot at their mad speed . L . On such a day ' the melancholy Jacques ' Did quit the * garish sun * to lie along Under an oak , whose antique root peeped out Upon the brook that brawled along the wood . Mignionette . On such a day , the story goes , d ' ye see , The fishes cried , ' My fins ! how hot we be !' Mary Anne . I shall be for calling upon ' Shadows of beauty , Shadows of power , Up ! to your duty ;' for I am sure ' this is the hour' when we want them . Mignionette . Why do you not go on ? * Beautiful shadow 'And if Willie asks the cause of the invocation , say , ' The—heat—it—is , boy !'
Omnes . Oh , oh ! Poet . Why , Mignionette , I thought you had determined to reform . Mignionette . And I had begun to do so , only Mary Anne is corrupting me again . Master . There are shadows above , I see—I hope they have no design upon us . L . They make beautiful designs for us . Look at that floating train
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CHARADE DRAMA .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1835, page 122, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2642/page/42/
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