Memorable Lines
Perhaps referencing Goldsmith's own experiences abroad busking across Europe after barely eking out a college degree, the play includes these lines:
- Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain,
- With grammar, and nonsense, and learning.
- Good liquor, I stoutly maintain,
- Gives genius a better discerning.
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