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قراءة كتاب The Lame Lover A Comedy in Three Acts
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to Candour chearfully submit;
She reigns in boxes, galleries, and pit.
1. Alluding to Mr. Garrick's Prologue to the Jubilee.
Dramatis Personæ.
| MEN. | |
| Sir Luke Limp, | Mr. Foote. |
| Serjeant Circuit, | Mr. Vandermere. |
| Colonel Secret, | Mr. Robson. |
| Jack, | Mr. Weston. |
| Mr. Woodford, | Mr. Knowles. |
| Mr. Fairplay, | Mr. Wheeler. |
| First Servant, | Mr. Dancer. |
| Second Servant, | Mr. Griffiths. |
| WOMEN. | |
| Mrs. Circuit, | Mrs. Gardner. |
| Charlot, | Mrs. Jewell. |
| Mrs. Simper, | Mrs. Saunders |
| Betty, | Mrs. Read. |
THE LAME LOVER.
ACT I.
Enter Serjeant Circuit and Charlot.
CHARLOT.
I tell you, Sir, his love to me is all a pretence: it is amazing that you, who are so acute, so quick in discerning on other occasions, should be so blind upon this.
SERJEANT.
But where are your proofs, Charlot? What signifies your opening matters which your evidence cannot support?
CHARLOT.
Surely, Sir, strong circumstances in every court should have weight.
SERJEANT.
So they have collaterally, child, that is by way as it were of corroboration, or where matters are doubtful; then indeed, as Plowden wisely observes "Les circonstances ajout beaucoup depoids aux faits."—You understand me?
CHARLOT.
Not perfectly well.
SERJEANT.
Then to explain by case in point; A, we will suppose, my dear, robs B of a watch upon Hounslow heath—dy'e mind, child?
CHARLOT.
I do, Sir.
SERJEANT.
A, is taken up and indicted; B swears positively to the identity of A.—Dy'e observe?