Humphry. This is, for all the world, like the show I see t'other night, at the Play-house.
Charles. His agitation of mind distresses me: my happiness is not complete, while it is enjoyed at the expense of a father's:—painful reflection!—We will go immediately, Harriet, and endeavour to pacify him.
His conduct shall instruct the hoary Sage,
That youth and beauty were not meant for age;
His rage, resentment, av'rice, dotage, pride,
(Sad view of human nature's frailest side!)
Shall mend us all;—but chiefly I shall prove,
That all his Politics, can never match my Love.
The End.
TRANSCRIBERS' NOTES:
General: Variable hyphenation of mack(-)marony and to(-)day as in original.
Page 353: Politican corrected to Politician.
Footnote 2: Geneological as in original text (twice).