Miscellaneous Works Including a Variety of Pieces Now First Collected By ... 1
Miscellaneous Works Including a Variety of Pieces Now First Collected By ... 1
Goldsmith, Oliver, 1730?-1774
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58.] 192 ESSA7S. landlady. However, sleep made but few changes in my situa- tion : the tavern, the apartment, and the table, continued as be* fore ; nothing suffered mutation but my host, who was fairly altered inrto a gentlewoman, whom I knew to be dame Quickly, mistress of this tavern in the days of Sir John ; and the liquor we were drinking, which seemed converted into sack and sugar. " My dear Mrs. Quickly," cried I (for I knew her perfectly well at first sight), " I am heartily glad to see... you. How have you left Falstaff, Pistol, and the rest of our friends below stairs 7 Brave and hearty, I hope ?" " In good sooth," replied she, " he did deserve to live for ever ; but he maketh foul work on't where he hath flitted. Queen Proserpine and he have quarrelled for his attempting a rape upon her divinity ; and were it not that she still had bowels of compassion, it more than seems probable he might have been now sprawling in Tartarus." I now found that spirits still preserve the frailties of the flesh ; and that, according to the laws of criticism and dreaming, ghosts have been known to be guilty of even more than platonic affiec- tion : wherefore, as I found her too much moved on such a topic to proceed, I was resolved to change the subject, and desiring she would pledge me in a bumper, observed with a sigh, that our sack was nothing now to what it was in former days : " Ah, Mrs.
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