The Follies of a Day; or, The Marriage of Figaro / A comedy, as it is now performing at the Theatre-Royal, Covent-Garden. From the French of M. de Beaumarchais

by Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais

Enter Cryer of the Court, Guards, Count, Counsellors and Vassals.

Cryer. Make room there, for my Lord, the Count.

Count. Wherefore in your Robes, Don Guzman? It was unnecessary for a mere domestic matter like this.

Guzman. Pa-a-ardon me, my Lord! “Those who would tre-e-emble at the Clerk of the Court in his Robes, would la-augh at the Judge without ’em.” Forms! Forms! are sacred things.

(The Count and the Court seat themselves.)

Count. Call silence in the Court.

Cryer. Silence in the Court.

Guzman. Read “over the Causes”, D-D-Doublefee.

Doublefee. “The Count de los Altos Montes di Agnas Frescas, Señor di Montes Fieros, y otros Montes, Plaintiff, against Alonzo Calderon, a Comic Poet. The question at present before the Court, is, to know the Author of a Comedy that has been damned; which they mutually disavow and attribute to each other.