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Programs, etc.

Take your leave of all your friends.

ALL'S WELL, iv, 3.

I multiply

WINTER'S TALE, i, 2.

With one "We thank you" many thousands moe
That go before it.

Stand not upon the order of your going,

But go at once.

MACBETH, iii, 4.

Why take we hands, then? Only to part friends.

LOVE'S LABOUR'S LOST, v, 2.

Abandon, which is in the vulgar, leave.

AS YOU LIKE IT, v, I.

Let him walk from whence he came lest he catch cold on 's feet.

Something too much of this!

COMEDY OF ERRORS, iii, 1.

HAMLET, iii, 2.

What doth gravity out of his bed at midnight?

Come, children, let us shut up the box and the

puppets, for our play is played out.

Thackeray, Vanity Fair.

This palpable-gross play hath well beguiled

The heavy gait of night.

MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM, V, I.

I thank you all;

I thank you, honest gentlemen; good night!

ROMEO AND JULIET, i, 5.

Gentlemen, prepare not to be gone;

We have a trifling foolish banquet.

ROMEO AND JULIET, i, 5.

And so home, with much ado in an hour get-
Pepys, DIARY, Jan. 8, 1663.

ting a coach.

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The harmony of their tongues hath into bondage
Brought my too diligent ear.

TEMPEST, iii, 1.

Their rising all at once was as the sound
Of thunder heard remote. Milton, PARADISE LOST, ii.

My ears were never better fed

With such delightful pleasing harmony.

End of Musical I thank you for your voices; thank you:
Your most sweet voices.

Program.

When Ladies depart.

CORIOLANUS, ii, 3.

I thank you for your music, gentlemen.
Who is that that spake ?

Two GENTLEMEN OF VERONA, iv, 2.

That song to-night

Will not go from my mind.

All that we ask is but a patient ear.

OTHELLO, iv, 3.

Pope, SATIRES, iii.

So may the fates preserve the ear you lend.

Pope, DUNCIAD, iii.

To stop my ear to their confounded stuff!

Pope, SATIRES, vi.

The all-composing hour
Resistless falls; the Muse obeys the pow'r.

Pope, DUNCIAD, iv.

Your silence then is better than your spite.

Pope, ESSAY ON CRITICISM.

I have not been more pleased with a snapp of musique, considering the circumstances of the time and place, in all my life anything more pleasant.

Pepys, DIARY, July 27, 1663.

And there heard both the vocall and the instrumental musick, where the little fellow stood keeping time. Pepys, DIARY, Nov. 17, 1667.

O wearisome condition of humanity.

Lord Brooke, MUSTAPHA, V.

Good night, ladies; good night, sweet ladies; good night, good night!

HAMLET, iv, 5.

Depart not so;

Though this be all do not so quickly go.

RICHARD II, i, 2.

Gentlemen,

The penance lies on you if these fair ladies
Pass away frowning.

HENRY VIII, i, 4.

I will most willingly attend your ladyship.

TITUS ANDRONICUS, iv, 1.

Joy, gentle friends! joy and fresh days of love
Accompany your hearts.

MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM, V, I.

None comes too early, none departs too late.

Pope, SATIRES, ii.

Get my Hoods and Tippet, and bid the Footman call a Chair.

Congreve, OLD Batchelor, ii, 4.

Loather a hundred times to part than die.

II HENRY VI, iii, 2.

When Ladies depart.

Who art so lovely fair and smell'st so sweet.

OTHELLO, iv, 2.

MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR, i, 1.

That's meat and drink to me.

Weeds wide enough to wrap a fairy in.

MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM, ii, 1.