SCYTHROP
How can we be cheerful when our great general designs are crossed every moment by our little particular passions?
MR CYPRESS
How can we be cheerful in the midst of disappointment and despair?
MR GLOWRY
Let us all be unhappy together.
MR HILARY
Let us sing a catch.
MR GLOWRY
No: a nice tragical ballad. The Norfolk Tragedy to the tune of the
Hundredth Psalm.