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Show 54 Love and a Bottle. Silk Waftcoat, and have clapp'd you on a Stone Doublet? Wou'd all your Golden Verfe have paid the Servant's Fees? Lyr. Truly, you freed m e from Gaol, to confine me in a Dungeon; you did not ranfom me, but bought me as a Slave; fo, Madam, I'll purchafe m y Freedom as foon as podiole. Flefh and Blood can't bear it. kuU. Take your Courfe, Sir. There were a couple Gentlemen ;uft n o w to enquire for you; and if they coi again, they fhan't be put off with the old Story of your bei abroad, I'll promife you that, Sir. (Exit Lyr. Zoons! If this Bookfeller does not bring m e Money-* Enter Pamphlet. O h ! Mr. Pamphlet, your Servant. Have you perus'd my Poems ? Pam. Yes, Sir; and there are fome things very well, ex: traordinary well, Mr.Lyrick: But I don't think an for my; purpofe. Poetry's a meer Drug, Sir. Lyr. Is that becaufe I take Phyfick when I write ? D a m n this coftive Fellow, now he does not apprehend the { Joke. Pam. N o , Sir ; but your N a m e does not recommend 'em. One muft write himfelf into a Confumption before he gain^| Reputation. Lyr. Thaf s the w a y to lie abed when his Name's up. Now I lie abed before I can gain Reputation. Pam. W h y fo, Sir?- Lyr. Becaufe 1 have fcarcely any Cloaths to put on.-If \ ever any M a n did Penance in a white Sheet Pam. You ftand only fometimes in a white Sheet for your* Offences with your Landlady. Faith, I have often wonder'd how your Mufe cou'd take fuch Flights, yoak'd to fuch a ^ Cartload as fhe is. • Lyr. O h ! They are like the Irifh Horfes, they draw beft by the Tail. Have you ever feen any of m y Burlefque/j Mr. Pamphlet i I have a Project of turning three or four or our moft topping Fellows into Do£grel. As for Example; - (Reads, Conquefi with Laurels has our Arms adorn d, And Rome in Tears of. vdood our Anger mourn d. ^0W]Ju'.chers T»'«hRofcmary have our Beef adorn d, Which has in Gravy Tears qnr Hunier mourn d. H o w dve like it, Mr. Pamphlet, ..a ?_Well Like Gods, we p*f;\{ the rugged Alpine Hills; TMherlot ecdl 0ouurd wya Dye,l aungde sd.r,o vEet oeurrn ahli fRfidms?. W heel~s -', ! J. No•w |
