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The Brothers

Colman, George (1732-1794)
  
THE BROTHERS;
  
[note]
  
[dedication]
  
[castlist]
  
[section]
  
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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ACT V.
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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 II.

Enter SYRUS.
Syrus.
Oh Sir! your brother has dispatch'd me to you
To beg you'd not go further off.

Dem.
Who's there?—
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What, honest Syrus! save you: how is't with you?
How goes it?

Syrus.
Very well, Sir.

Demea,
aside.]
Excellent!
Now for the first time I, against my nature,
Have added these three phrases, “Honest Syrus!
“How is't?—How goes it?”— [to Syrus.]
You have prov'd yourself
A worthy servant. I'll reward you for it.

Syrus.
I thank you, Sir.

Dem.
I will, I promise you;
And you shall be convinc'd on't very soon.

 

Here the Poet shews how aukwardly a man of an opposite disposition endeavours to be complaisant; and that a miser, meaning to be generous, runs into profusion. Donatus.

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