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behind the post-man, disrobes himfelf,
and. fastening his cloaths to him, the
post-man sinks, and leaves Harlequin
in his habit, who as such is admitted.
We next See a hall ; two tables covered
with trunk^ and cloaths ; the
beauty enters attended with a Servant,
and presently her Sather ; Srom their
dresses we may concludethem Polcndrrs-
The father. who is a kind oS pantaloon,
wears purple Sattin, edged with Sable
fur ; the daughter (whom Sor the future
we call Columbine) appears in
vellow ; her cloke, and each of the Sails
of her petticoat, are edged writh white
fut, the maid blue edged with black.
The pantaloon, packing up his cloatha,
seems to have forgot some thing, and
exits for it ; mean while, the servant
brings in Harlequin as the post-man,
be gives letters, looks with rapture on
Columbine, who goes out, and is followed
by Harlequin.
A fine chamber with a large looking-glaSs
and pictures seeming in the
fame lioufe, Colombine enters, followed
by her lover, in his own dress ; slie
Seems shy, and rejects his Suit, till music
playing in the air engages her attention,
which is yet height ned by the voice
of the genius, who Srom above urges
ber to fly with Harlequin ; which as
they do, the genius cries, ' Too late.'
Pantaloon entering forces Harlequin to
run through the wtainScot, which now
appears Sull oS books ; Pantaloon gives
CerIombine to the care os her mother.—
The text Scene is a street, through
which Harlequin is pursued, who, to
avoid his put Suets, enters a beautiful
garden; an arbour Sronta the stage;
covered with flowers, and among which
a multituele of Sun-flowers strike the
ey^ Harlequin being forced into the
arbour, it turns into an elegant fishmonger's
shop, and he appears the
matter. Pantaloon, musing Harlequm,
comes to buy fish ; many real ones
are produced, Some oS which he buys ;
and, going out, bis Servant follows,
after having bern sufficiently bit by
the nose by the lobster's claw, and
made almost drunk in recompence by
the fishmonger, who, putting the marketing
in a tray, Sollows.
The chamber is discovered, Colombine
is locked in by her mother, Pantaloon
is followed hy the clown and
fishmonger ; Colombine Secing his habit
under his apron rejoices, and, while
the Sather goes for his purse to pay Sor
the fish, escapes with him ; Pantaloon
returns, and, expressing great disorder,
Sollows, after exiling the maid, and other
little incidents, another pursuit of
both Harlequin and Colombine, who
cross the street and enter a tavern built
of maable, designed and executed in
an extraordinary manner ; a Sumptuous
side-board of china, &c. and on a table,
an elegant entertainment is Set, for
Some of which Harlequin bargains, and
Sends the mistress out, but she returning
inSorms them os the Sather just entering
; the tavern is hereupon transformed
into a water-mill with real
water; Harlequin comes it, lihe the
miller ; Colombine, looking inadvertctitly
out oS the window, is Scizedand
carried off
The Street is next, and Colombine is
Sorted along, and put fuse into the
houSe. .
We next heboid a Scene ofcragged
rocks. Harlequin, now despairing sor
bis mistress, lies on the ground ; his
Saitlisul genius bearte.ra him, remind;
binaufhis magic pov.et, and, to amute,
raifes Sour Suraes, who bringing in Sour
female partners Sorm in a dance ; Monsieur
Devise and Madam Augufle, as
the two principal, join them in dresses
riclaly adorned ; the genius goes out
with the Harlequin to try Some mea^s
oS gaining her.
Pantaloon is Seen crossing she sta^e
as going to another house, in the inside
oS which is discovered a new chamber
Scene ; an old man, an old woman,
their son and daughter, are drinking ^
coffee, a Servant waiting ; the young
one in Scarlet edged wills Sur, makn^
a fop. even in that country, feems to
be designed to marry Colombine : h^