The Works of the Right Honourable Sir Chas. Hanbury Williams ... From the Originals in the Possession of His Grandson The Right Hon. The Earl of Essex and Others: With Notes by Horace Walpole ... In Three Volumes, with Portraits |
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A DIALOGUE
BETWEEN THE
EARL OF BATH
AND HIS
COUNTESS. |
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A DIALOGUE BETWEEN THE EARL OF BATH AND HIS COUNTESS.
E.TO the Earl said the Countess, what makes you so dull?
C.
Because for your Ladyship I've played the fool.
E.
For me? do you say, Sir; your Lordship I mean—
C.
Ay, curse that damn'd title, 'tis that gives me spleen.
E.
You have no sense of honour, no notions of glory—
Yours are, Polly Walpole should not rank before ye;
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Had you been plain Madam, and I been plain Will.
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