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 who can construe and metricise a chorus, shall, if she so please, pass in by herself.

But, sir, you will shut me out of my own theatre. Let there at least be a double passport, Greek and Italian.

No, sir; I am inexorable. No Greek, no theatre.

Sir, I cannot consent to be shut out from my own theatre.

You see how it is, Squire Crotchet the younger; you can scarcely find two to agree on a scheme, and no two of those can agree on the details. Keep your money in your pocket. And so ends the fund for regenerating the world.