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PASSAGE FROM AN OLD PLAY
By C.A.H. (Athenæum Club)
Can any of your many readers oblige me by informing me where the following very striking passage can be found? I have seen the lines quoted as from an "Old Play;" but a tolerable extensive knowledge of old plays, and a diligent search, have not hitherto enabled me to find them:-- "Call you the city gay, its revels joyous? They may be so to you, for you are young, Belike and happy. She was young in years, But often in mid-spring will blighting winds Do autumn's work; and there is grief at heart Can do the work of years, can pale the cheek, And cloud the brow, and sober down the spirit. This gew…
Topics: Old Plays, Literature