<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=344221" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Ballade Of Old Plays</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">LA COUR.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">When these Old Plays were new, the King,<br>Beside the Cardinal's chair,<br>Applauded, 'mid the courtly ring,<br>The verses of Moliere;<br>Point-lace was then the only wear,<br>Old Corneille came to woo,<br>And bright Du Parc was young and fair,<br>When these Old Plays were new!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">LA COMEDIE.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">How shrill the butcher's cat-calls ring,<br>How loud the lackeys swear!<br>Black pipe-bowls on the stage they fling,<br>At Brecourt, fuming there!<br>The Porter's stabbed! a Mousquetaire<br>Breaks in with noisy crew -<br>'Twas all a commonplace affair<br>When these Old Plays were new!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">LA VILLE.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">When these Old Plays were new! They bring<br>A host of phantoms rare:<br>Old jests that float, old jibes that sting,<br>Old faces peaked with care:<br>Menage's smirk, de Vise's stare,<br>The thefts of Jean Ribou,--<br>Ah, publishers were hard to bear<br>When these Old Plays were new.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">ENVOY.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Ghosts, at your Poet's word ye dare<br>To break Death's dungeons through,<br>And frisk, as in that golden air,<br>When these Old Plays were new!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Andrew+Lang">Andrew Lang</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=344221" data-title="Ballade Of Old Plays de Andrew Lang" data-description="LA COUR. When these Old Plays were new, the King, Beside the Cardinal's chair, Applauded, 'mid the courtly ring, The verses of Moliere; Point-lace was then the only wear, Old Corneille came to woo, And bright Du Parc was young and fair, When thes..."></div> </div> </div>

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