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A TUTOR IN LOVE.

To get off his conditions.

Why has he thus his habits caged

That were before so rapid?

Because, in sooth, he is engaged,

And all the rest is vapid.

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Exeunt.

SCENE 2.

The Annex. Instructor FAGG and Miss HEATH.

FAGG. (Aside.) Nay, nay, I must my pristine courage show

Faint heart, they say, has never won fair lady.

I will disclose that passion which consumes,

And she, so good, so fair, will mercy grant.

Miss Heath, before we conjugate that verb,

I wish to speak upon a subject which

To me is weightier far than any Greek.

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