"Madam, excuse this Absence of Mind; my animal Spirits had deserted the Avenues of my Senses, and retired to the Recesses of the Brain, to contemplate a beautiful Idea. I could not force the vagrant Creatures back again into their Posts, to move those Parts of the Body that express Civility."
Three Hours After Marriage. A Comedy, As It Is Acted at the Theatre Royal.
See also <u>Three Hours After Marriage</u>, ed. Richard Morton and William Peterson (Painesville, OH: Lake Erie College Press, 1961)