The Old Bachelor: a Comedy

The Old Bachelor, by William Congreve
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Title: The Old Bachelor
Author: William Congreve Editor: G. S. Street Release Date: January 7, 2008 Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII) [eBook #1192]
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Transcribed from the 1895 Methuen and Co. [Comedies of William Congreve] edition by David Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org
THE OLD BACHELOR
Quem tulit ad scenam ventoso Gloria curru , Exanimat lentus spectator ; sedulus inflat: Sic leve, sic parvum est, animum quod laudis avarum Subruit, and reficit . H ORAT. Epist. I. lib. ii.
TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE CHARLES, LORD CLIFFORD OF LANESBOROUGH, etc.
My Lord,—It is with a great deal of pleasure that I lay hold on this first occasion which the accidents of my life have given me of writing to your lordship: for since at the same time I write to all the world, it will be a means of publishing (what I would have everybody know) the respect and duty which I owe and pay to you. I have so much inclination to be yours that I need no other engagement. But the particular ties by which I am bound to your ...