Original Plays [First Series]

by W. S. Gilbert

I gaze on heaven’s handiwork—thyself!

Cyn. And yet, although it be thy masterpiece,

It has the fault thy patrons find with all

Thy many statues.

Pyg.What then do they say?

Cyn. They say Pygmalion’s statues have one head—

That head, Cynisca’s.

Pyg.So then it’s a fault

To reproduce an hundred thousand fold,

For the advantage of mankind at large,