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The Self-Tormentor

Colman, George (1732-1794)
  
THE SELF-TORMENTOR,
  
[note]
  
[dedication]
  
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PROLOGUE.

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ACT I.
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ACT II.
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ACT III.
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ACT IV.
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SCENE I.
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SCENE II.
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SCENE III.
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SCENE IV.
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SCENE V.
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SCENE VI.
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SCENE VII.
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SCENE VIII.
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SCENE IX.
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ACT V.

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SCENE VIII.

CHREMES
alone.
My daughter now has had Ten Minæ of me,
Which I account laid out upon her board:
Ten more her cloaths will come to: and moreover
Two Talents for her portion.—How unjust,
And absolute is custom! I must now
Leave every thing, and find a stranger out,
On whom I may bestow the sum of wealth,
Which I have so much labour'd to acquire.

 

I am charmed with this sentiment, and still more with the good man's application of it. For in fact nothing can be more ridiculous, than that when a father bestows his daughter upon a man, he must also bestow part of his fortune with her. And as a proof, that custom only authorizes such a practice, in antient times the very contrary was the case, money and presents being given to the fathers by those who demanded their daughters in marriage. MADAM DACIER.

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