The Broughs were always ingenious in their word-plays. Says one of the characters in this burlesque:—
Soon, I feel, with passion and disgust,
Within this bosom there will be a bust.
Again:—
I wonder how he'd look with a moustache;
He's got none yet, though, thanks to sorrow's growth,
He feels a little down about the mouth.
Says Badoura to a suitor whom she does not favour:—
I may be handsome, but I'll now be plain;
So, I'll not have you, sir—you kneel in vain;
to which he replies:—
Can one so fair thus speak to her adorer?
Your form a Venus, but your words Floorer.
In the piece by Messrs. Bellingham and Best—"Prince Camaralzaman, or the Fairies' Revenge"[30]—we find, amid many well-conceived and well-executed puns, a rather successful adaptation of the "To be, or not to be" soliloquy, possessing the merit of being quite in keeping with the character of the matrimony-scorning Camaralzaman:—