Why did you make me marry this man?
MIRABELL.
Why do we daily commit disagreeable and dangerous actions? To save that idol reputation....
[147]: If the familiarity of our loves had produced that consequence of which you were apprehensive, where could you have fixed a father's name with credit, but on a husband?
[148]: A better man ought not to have been sacrificed to the occasion; a worse had not answered the purpose. When you are weary of him, you know your remedy.
[149]: Rôle du chapelain Foigard dans Farquhar (Beaux Stratagem), de Mademoiselle, et en général, de tous les Français.
[150]: Rôle d'Amanda dans Relapse (Vanbrugh); rôle de mistress Sullen, conversion des deux viveurs, dans The Beaux Stratagem (Farquhar).
[151]: Though marriage be a lottery in which there are a wondrous many blanks, yet there is one inestimable lot, in which the only heaven upon earth is written.
To be capable of loving one, doubtless, is better than to possess a thousand. (Vanbrugh.)
[152]: She Stoops to Conquer.