boxes

There heroes' wits are kept in ponderous vases,

And beaux' in snuff-boxes and tweezer-cases.

There broken vows, and death-bed alms are found,

At last, dearest Louisa, I take up my pen to address you.

Here we are, you see, with the seven-and-seventy boxes,

Courier, Papa and Mamma, the children, and Mary and Susan:

“ wit; and by degrees the fair sex came again to fill

“ the boxes on the first day of a new comedy without

“ feaV or censure.”

didn’t even eat in the school cafeteria. They drove to malt shops with the

girls, played the juke boxes and laughed. They were on their way to U.S.C.

[464] Malone was no doubt right in supposing that there is here an

allusion to the "private boxes" placed at each side of the balcony at

the back of the stage. They must have been very dark and uncomfortable.

And his elders

Were packing them in the great wooden boxes

For the market in Brescia, and he

"While Poesy," with these delightful doxies,

"Sustains her part" in all the "upper" boxes!

"Thus lifted gloriously, you'll sweep along,"

The world’s a masquerade! the maskers, you, you, you.

(_To Boxes, Pit, and Gallery._)

——, what a group the motley scene discloses!