“Perhaps it was right to dissemble your love,
But - why did you kick me downstairs?”
Isaac Bickerstaffe (1733–1812) Irish playwright and librettist
An Expostulation (1789).
“Perhaps it was right to dissemble your love,
But—why did you kick me down stairs?”
The Panel, Act i, Scene 1, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). Altered from Isaac Bickerstaff's "'T is Well 't is no Worse"; also found in Debrett's "Asylum for Fugitive Pieces", vol. i., p. 15.
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