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Paul Pry in effect accusing Him of being unjust. Had Job not been a sinner, God could not have authorized Satan to torment him, and through his patient attempts to understand this, we learn valuable lessons. Paul Pry – Пол Прай, человек, сующий нос в чужие дела Paul Pry (1825), a farce in three acts, was the most notable play written by a 19th-century English playwright John Poole. It premiered in London on 13 September 1825 at the Haymarket Theatre and ran 114 performances. The play continued to be popular until the early 1870s. The storyline is centered on a comical, idle, meddlesome and mischievous fellow consumed with curiosity. Unable to mind his own business, he is an interfering busybody who conveniently leaves behind an umbrella everywhere he goes in order to have an excuse to return and eavesdrop. In the end, however, Pry becomes a hero for rescuing papers from a well that incriminate more serious troublemakers. Peeping Tom – любопытный Том; человек, который тайком подглядывает за другими; чересчур любопытный человек Someone who tries to look through other people’s windows without being seen in order to spy on people in their homes. Peeping Tom – a voyeur; a person who secretly watches other people undressing. After the tailor that, according to legend, sneakily tried to peep at Lady Godiva when she rode naked through Coventry. Lady Godiva was the lady, wife of Leofric. Earl Leofric was a lord who ruled England under the Danish King Canute. Lady Godiva was a rich landowner in her own right and one of her most valuable properties was Coventry. Leofric was a tyrant, he tyrannized the Church and did not hold the same religious Lady Godiva (1898) by John Collier convictions as his wife. 128