A Trip to Scarborough; and, The Critic

by Richard Brinsley Sheridan

SNEER.
I’ll tell you how you may hurt him more.

SIR FRETFUL PLAGIARY.
How?

SNEER.
Swear he wrote it.

SIR FRETFUL PLAGIARY.
Plague on’t now, Sneer, I shall take it ill!—I believe you want to take away my character as an author.

SNEER.
Then I am sure you ought to be very much obliged to me.

SIR FRETFUL PLAGIARY.
Hey!—sir!—

DANGLE.
Oh, you know, he never means what he says.

SIR FRETFUL PLAGIARY.
Sincerely then—do you like the piece?

SNEER.
Wonderfully!

SIR FRETFUL PLAGIARY.
But come, now, there must be something that you think might be mended, hey?—Mr. Dangle, has nothing struck you?