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Literary
March 5, 1808
Kentucky Gazette And General Advertiser
Lexington, Fayette County, Kentucky
What is this article about?
Excerpt from the play 'The Honey Moon' featuring a humorous dialogue between Rolando and the Count, where Rolando compares a woman's tongue to a smoke-jack and a water mill, concluding it is incomparable among earthly things.
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"TO SOAR ALOFT ON FANCY'S WING."
[The following extracts from a new play, called the Honey Moon, partake something of the spirit of Shakespeare. Their insertion may, perhaps, excuse the editor from a compliance with the request of a lady; as he is certain he could not do the subject the same justice.]
(Count and Rolando meeting.)
Rolando. -I met three women - three loud-talking women!
They were discoursing of the newest fashions
And their tongues went like - I've since been thinking
What most that active member of woman,
Of mortal things, resembles.
Count. Have you found it?
Rolando. Umph! not exactly: Something like a smoke-jack;
For it goes ever, without winding up:
But it wears out in time—there fails the simile.
Next I bethought me of a water mill:
But that stands still on Sundays - woman's tongue
Needs no reviving Sabbath. And, besides
A mill, to give it motion waits for grist.
Now, whether she have aught to say or no,
A woman's tongue will go for exercise!
In short, I came to this conclusion:
Most earthly things have their similitudes;
But woman's tongue is yet incomparable.
[The following extracts from a new play, called the Honey Moon, partake something of the spirit of Shakespeare. Their insertion may, perhaps, excuse the editor from a compliance with the request of a lady; as he is certain he could not do the subject the same justice.]
(Count and Rolando meeting.)
Rolando. -I met three women - three loud-talking women!
They were discoursing of the newest fashions
And their tongues went like - I've since been thinking
What most that active member of woman,
Of mortal things, resembles.
Count. Have you found it?
Rolando. Umph! not exactly: Something like a smoke-jack;
For it goes ever, without winding up:
But it wears out in time—there fails the simile.
Next I bethought me of a water mill:
But that stands still on Sundays - woman's tongue
Needs no reviving Sabbath. And, besides
A mill, to give it motion waits for grist.
Now, whether she have aught to say or no,
A woman's tongue will go for exercise!
In short, I came to this conclusion:
Most earthly things have their similitudes;
But woman's tongue is yet incomparable.
What sub-type of article is it?
Dialogue
Satire
What themes does it cover?
Social Manners
What keywords are associated?
Women's Tongues
Satirical Dialogue
Play Excerpt
Humor
Similes
Literary Details
Title
The Honey Moon
Subject
On Women's Tongues And Talkativeness
Form / Style
Humorous Dialogue In Verse
Key Lines
Something Like A Smoke Jack; For It Goes Ever, Without Winding Up: But It Wears Out In Time—There Fails The Simile.
But That Stands Still On Sundays Woman's Tongue Needs No Reviving Sabbath.
Most Earthly Things Have Their Similitudes; But Woman's Tongue Is Yet Incomparable.