The Follies of a Day; or, The Marriage of Figaro: A comedy, as it is now performing at the Theatre-Royal, Covent-Garden. From the French of M. de BeaumarchaisBeaumarchais, Pierre Augustin Caron de
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The Follies of a Day; or, The Marriage of Figaro: A comedy, as it is now performing at the Theatre-Royal, Covent-Garden. From the French of M. de Beaumarchais
Beaumarchais, Pierre Augustin Caron de
Comedy plays; French drama -- Translations into English
_Figaro._ “Come, come, we must be quick; let us run and
find the Count, otherwise he will invent some new pretext
to break off the Match.
(_Exeunt Doctor, Marcelina, Figaro and Susan._)
_Manent Don_ GUZMAN.
_Guzman._ “A greater Foo-oo-ool than Mr. President!--The
People in this House are truly very stupid and ill bred.”
(_Exit._)}}
End of ACT III.
ACT IV.
SCENE, a large Saloon.
FIGARO _and_ SUSAN, _both joyous_.
_Figaro._ She has converted her Doctor at last--They are to
be married, and these so late implacable Enemies are now
become our dearest Friends.
_Susan._ What unexpected Happiness!
_Figaro._ Chance, my Susan--All the effect of
Chance--{{“Yesterday, without a Relation in the World I
could claim, to-day, behold me restored to my Parents--True
it is, they are neither so rich nor so right honorable,
so belaced nor betitled as my imagination had painted
them--But that’s all one, they are mine”}}--I may truly
be called both a Chance Child, and a Child of Chance--By
Chance was I begot, by Chance brought into the World, by
Chance was I stole, by Chance am I found, by Chance have
I lived, and by Chance I shall die--Chance is Nature’s
Sovereign, and must be mine.
_Susan._ Yes, and by Chance thou mayst come to be hang’d.
(_Laughs._)
_Figaro._ Or thou to be an Empress--Neither of them are
impossible--He, the Conqueror, whose Ambition ravages the
Earth, and whose Pride eats up Nations, is not less the
sport of Chance than the blind Beggar who is conducted by
his dog.
_Susan._ Ha, ha, ha!--Prithee leave thy Philosophy, and--
_Figaro._ And think of that other blind beggar, Love--Most
willingly, my Angel. (_Kisses her._)
_Susan._ Pooh, Pooh!--That was not what I meant.
_Figaro._ Rather say it was not half thy meaning, or thy
meaning ill expressed. (_Kisses her again._)
_Susan._ Ah, Figaro! Were this fondness, these days but
durable--
_Figaro._ Durable!--Iron and Adamant--No; may millions of
imaginary Gallants wrack my heart and decorate my--
{{_Susan._ “No rhodomantade, Figaro--Tell me the simple
truth.
_Figaro._ “By the truest of all Truths I swear--
_Susan._ “Truest of Truths!--Are there various kinds of
Truths then?
_Figaro._ “No doubt.
_Susan._ “Fie!
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