Lydia Monologue from The Rivals

From The Rivals by Richard Brinsley Sheridan

female · comedic · 46 sec

Ay, the Captain Absolute you have seen. Mrs. MALAPROP Then he's so well bred;--so full of alacrity, and adulation!--and has so much to say for himself:--in such good language, too! His physiognomy so grammatical! Then his presence is so noble! I protest, when I saw him, I thought of what Hamlet says in the play:-- "Hesperian curls--the front of Job himself!-- An eye, like March, to threaten at command!-- A station, like Harry Mercury, new----" Something about kissing--on a hill--however, the similitude struck me directly.

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