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Thus sitting at the table wide, the Mayor & Aldermen
Were fit to give law to the city; each eat as much as ten.
The hungry poor enter'd the hall, to eat good beef & ale.
Good English hospitality, O then it did not fail!
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SCOPPRELL: |
Good English hospitality, O, Oh . . . |
GIMBLET: |
[enters GASS] Come Flammable, and let's enjoy ourselves. Bring
the puppets. |
GASS: |
Hey, hey, you -- should -- why -- yea. How can you be so foolish?
Ha! Ha! She calls the experiments puppets! [goes into a bag and
takes out a microscope, a magic lantern, slides, a corded bottle
connected to an air pump and balloon on GITTIPIN'S table] Here,
ladies and gentlemen, I'll show you a louse, or a flea, or a butterfly,
or a Beatle, or a cockroach, the blade bone of a tiny back. No,
no. Here's a bottle of wind that I took up in the John, and -- Oh,
dear, oh dear, water's got onto the slides! Look here Gimblet! Lend
me your handkerchief, Tilly Lally.
[TILLY LALLY and COLUMN
pump through the bottle and enlarge the balloon, which takes off
around the room; GASS turns hysterical, breaking glasses and upsetting
the table] |