Burlesque Plays And Poems PDF Download

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1887 edition. Excerpt: ...bear To take a pudding's offspring to her arms? Griz. Oh, horror! horror! horror! cease, my queen. Thy voice, like twenty screech-owls, wracks my brain. Queen. Then rouse thy spirit--we may yet prevent This hated match. Griz. We will; nor fate itself, t Should it conspire with Thomas Thumb, should cause it. I'll swim through seas; I'll ride upon the clouds: I'll dig the earth; I'll blow out every fire; I'll rave; I'll rant; I'll rise; I'll rush; I'll roar; Fierce as the man whom smilingj dolphins bore From the prosaic to poetic shore. I'll tear the scoundrel into twenty pieces. Queen. Oh, no! prevent the match, but hurt him not; For, though I would not have him have my daughter, Yet can we kill the man that killed the giants? Griz. I tell you, madam, it was all a trick; He made the giants first, and then he killed them; As fox-hunters bring foxes to the wood, And then with hounds they drive them out again. Queen. How! have you seen no giants? Are there not Now in the yard ten thousand proper giants?-Griz. Indeed I cannot positively tell, But firmly do believe there is not one. Queen. Hence! from my sight! thou traitor, hie away; By all my stars! thou enviest Tom Thumb. Go, sirrah! go, hie away! hie!----thou art A setting-dog: begone. ' Screech-owls, dark ravens, and amphibious monsters, Are scteaming in that voice."--" Mary Queen of Scots." t The reader may see all the beauties of this speech in a late ode, called the " Naval Lyrick.." 1 This epithet to a dolphin doth not give one so clear an idea as were to be wished; a smiling fish seeming a little more difficult to be imagined than a flying fish. Mr. Dryden is of opinion that smiling is the property of reason, and that no irrational creature can smile: ...