Dangle.
Shall I begin with The Times? ’Tis very satirical, and as full of quotations as a pudding is of plums.
Sneer.
I know the style—a vocabulary recruited from all the dead and living languages. ’Tis the very Babel of dramatic criticism. Begin, Dangle.
Dangle.
[Reading.] “The philosopher who found in thought the proof of existence, crystallised his theory in the phrase ‘Cogito ergo sum,’ ‘I think, therefore, I exist.’ In this he found the explanation of what Hugo called the néant géant. The theory of the author of The Spanish Armada, on the contrary, seems to be ‘Sum, ergo non cogitabo,’ ‘I exist, therefore I need not think’——”
Sir Fretful Plagiary.
Ha! Ha! Very good, i’ faith.
Dangle.