Pray, what authors should she read Who in Classics would succeed? SOLO — Psyche If you'd climb the Helicon, You should read Anacreon, Ovid's Metamorphoses, Likewise Aristophanes, And the works of Juvenal: These are worth attention, all; But, if you will be advised, You will get them Bowdlerized! Chorus: Ah! we will get them Bowdlerized! SOLO — Sacharissa Pray you, tell us, if you can, What's the thing that's known as Man? SOLO — Psyche Man will swear and man will storm— Man is not at all good form— Is of no kind of use— Man's a donkey — Man's a goose— Man is coarse and Man is plain— Man is more or less insane— Man's a ribald — Man's a rake, Man is Nature's sole mistake! Chorus: We'll a memorandum make— Man is Nature's sole mistake! And thus to empyrean height Of ev'ry kind of lore, In search of wisdom's pure delight, Ambitiously we soar. In trying to achieve success No envy racks our heart, For all we know and all we guess We mutually impart! And all the knowledge we possess, We mutually impart, We mutually impart, impart. (Enter Lady Blanche. All stand up demurely) Blanche: Attention, ladies, while I read to you The Princess Ida's list of punishments. The first is Sacharissa. She's expelled! All: Expelled! Blan.: Expelled, because although she knew No man of any kind may pass our walls, She dared to bring a set of chessmen here! Sach.: (Crying) I meant no harm; they're only men of wood! Blan.: They're men with whom you give each other mate, And that's enough! The next is Chloe. Chloe: Ah! Blan.: Chloe will lose three terms, for yesterday, When looking through her drawing-book, I found A sketch of a perambulator! All: (Horrified) Oh! Blan.: Double perambulator... All: Oh, oh!