No. 4: Recitative & Minuet
Enter Sir Marmaduke and Alexis.
| Dr. Daly. |
May fortune bless you! may the middle distance
Of your young life be pleasant as the foreground –
The joyous foreground! and, when you have reached it,
May that which now is the far-off horizon
(But which will then become the middle distance),
In fruitful promise be exceeded only
By that which will have opened, in the meantime,
Into a new and glorious horizon! |
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| Sir. Marmaduke. |
Dear Sir, that is an excellent example
Of an old school of stately compliment
To which I have, through life, been much addicted.
Will you obleege me with a copy of it,
In clerkly manuscript, that I myself
May use it on appropriate occasions? |
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| Dr. Daly. |
Sir, you shall have a fairly-written copy
Ere Sol has sunk into his western slumbers! |
(Exit Dr. Daly. )
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