A Trip to Scarborough; and, The Critic

by Richard Brinsley Sheridan

PUFF.
The park scene! no! I mean the description scene here, in the wood.

UNDER PROMPTER.
Sir, the performers have cut it out.

PUFF.
Cut it out!

UNDER PROMPTER.
Yes, sir.

PUFF.
What! the whole account of Queen Elizabeth?

UNDER PROMPTER.
Yes, sir.

PUFF.
And the description of her horse and side-saddle?

UNDER PROMPTER.
Yes, sir.

PUFF.
So, so; this is very fine indeed!—Mr. Hopkins, how the plague could you suffer this?

Mr. Hop.
[Within.] Sir, indeed the pruning-knife—