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(1) Pièce jouée immédiatement après The Double Dealer (Malone). Congreve a collaboré à cette pièce avec une chanson : « How happy’s the husband whose vife häs been try’ » au 5e acte. EE SEA

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HE. the: ‘stubborn soil manured NA Tamed us to manners when the stage was rude And sn trens English ail sen art ‘endured,

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Et que : 5

Le + & ; Our builders were with. Want of genius mere

surtout es ee :

What sn in skill, we lost in strength.

| Voilà que Congree : ee

‘HUE ne The best Vitruvius come at length

| Our heauties equal, but excel our strength 5

TRES = Firm Doric Pillars found Your solid base ; Me The Fair Corinthian crowns the higher place,

, TOUS alt below is nage and all above is grace.

= Fletcher et Ben Foieon étaient grands, chacun à à sa manière :

2 ÿ But both to Congreve justiy shall submit One matched in judgment both o’ermatched in re L In him all beauties of this age we see # À Etheridge his courtship, Southerne’s purity, Pa The satire, wit and strength of manly Wycherley. All He-uMeomine youth you have achieved,

Sa précocité: merveilleuse donne à Dryden le droit de tout Jui prophétiser : !

Yet 1 this tateuy : Thou shalt be seen

(Though with some short parenthesis between) ro

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| High on the throne of wit, and seated there Not mine (that’s little) DATE RER