Prologue. WRITTEN BY M. GARRICK. A School for Scandal! tell me, I beseech you, Lord! » cries my Lady Wormwood (who loves tattle,, « 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, (RECAP) the villain! « Who lives not twenty miles from Grosvenor Square; 3929 793530 << Let that vile paper come within my door. >> So strong, so swift, the monster there's no gagging: Till every drop of blood—that's ink-is spilt for you. STAGE DIRECTIONS. EXITS and ENTRANCES. R. means Right; L. Left; D. F. Door in Flat; R. D. Right Door; L. D. Left Door; S. E. Entrance; M. D. Middle Door. Second Entrance; U. E. Upper RELATIVE POSITIONS. R. means Right; L. Left; C. Centre; R. C. Right of Centre; L. C. Left of Centre. The Reader is supposed to Audience. be on the Stage, facing the Discovered LADY Sneerwell, r. at the dressing-table. SNAKE drinking chocolate, L. LADY S. 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 S. (R.) Did you circulate the report of Lady Brittle's intrigue with Captain Boastall? SNAKE. (L.) That's in as fine a train as your ladyship could wish. In the common course of things, I think it must reach Mrs. Clackitt's ears within four and twenty hours; and then, you know, the business is as good as done. LADY S. Why, truly, Mrs. Clackitt has a very pretty talent, and a great deal of industry. SNAKE. True, madam, and has been tolerably successful in her day. To my knowledge she has been the cause of six matches being broken off, and three sons being disinherited; of four forced elopements, as many close confinements; nine separate maintenances, and two divorces. Nay, I have more than once traced her causing a tête-à-tête in the Town and Country Magazine, when the parties, perhaps, had never seen each other's face before in the course of their lives, |