What could my old friend Sir Charles
Marlow mean by recommending his son as the modestest young man in town!
To me he appears the most impudent piece of brass that ever spoke with a
tongue!
[_Exit_ HARDCASTLE.
PYGMALION AND GALATEA
W. S. GILBERT
ACT I, SCENE I
CHARACTERS: Pygmalion, an Athenian sculptor; Cynisca, his wife;
Galatea, an animated statue.
SCENE: Pygmalion's studio; several classical statues are placed
about the room; at the back a cabinet containing a statue of
Galatea, before which curtains are drawn concealing the statue.
PYG. It all but breathes--therefore it talks aloud!
It all but moves--therefore it walks and runs!
It all but lives, and therefore it is life!
No, no, my love, the thing is cold, dull stone,
Shaped to a certain form, but still dull stone,
The lifeless, senseless mockery of life.
The gods make life, I can make only death!
Why, my Cynisca, though I stand so well,
The merest cut-throat, when he plies his trade,
Makes better death than I with all my skill!
CYN.
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