PROLOGUE. Written by Mr. GARRICK. A SCHOOL for Scandal! tell me, I beseech you, 66 "We hope she'll DRAW, or we'll UNDRAW the curtain. "Fine satire, poz-in public all abuse it, "But, by ourselves, (sips) our praise we can't refuse it. "Now, Lisp, read you there, at that dash and star: " "Yes, ma'am-A certain lord had best beware, "Wormwood is bitter"- -"Oh! that's me, the villain! THE SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL. ACT I. SCENE I. Lady SNEERWELL'S House. Discovered Lady SNEERWELL at the dressing-table ; SNAKE drinking chocolate. Lady Sneer. THE paragraphs, you say, Mr. Snake, were all inserted? Snake. They were, madam; and as I copied them myself in a feigned hand, there can be no suspicion whence they came. Lady Sneer. Did you circulate the report of Lady Brittle's intrigue with Captain Boastall? Snake. That's in as fine a train as your ladyship could wish. In the common course of things, I |