Don C. What was the play?
13 lines✦
ara. It was a dull affair;One of those comedies in which you see,As Lope says, the history of the worldBrought down from Genesis to the Day of Judgment.There were three duels fought in the first act,Three gentlemen receiving deadly wounds,Laying their hands upon their hearts, and saying,"O, I am dead!" a lover in a closet,An old hidalgo, and a gay Don Juan,A Dona Inez with a black mantilla,Followed at twilight by an unknown lover,Who looks intently where he knows she is not! Don C. Of course, the Preciosa danced to-night?
✦