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Show P R O L O G U E ; By a Friend. PO ETS will think nothing fo checks their Fury, As Wits, Cits, Beaux, and Women for their Jury. Our Sparc's half dead to think what Medly's come, With blended Judgments to pronounce his Dtom. _ 'Tis all falfe Fear ; for in a mingled Fit, / Why, what ycur grave Don things but dully Writ, > His Neighbour i'th' great Wig may take for Wit. \ Some Authors court the Few, the Wife, if any; Our Youth's content, if he can reach the many, _. Who go with much like Ends to Church, and Flay, 7 Not to obferve what Priefts or Poets fay, S No! no ! your Thoughts, like theirs, lie quite another way. \ The Ladies fafe may fmile: for here's no Slander, No Smut, no lewd-tongu'd Beau, no double Entendre. 'Tis true, he has a Spark juft come from France, I1 But then fo far from Beau why, he talks Senfe ! *> Like Coin oft carry 'd out, but - feldom brought from thence, j There's yet a Gang to whom our Spark fubmits, -j Tour Elbow-fliakjng Fool, that lives bys Wits, £• That's only witty tho', jujt as he lives, by fits. j Who, Lion-like, through Bailiffs, fcours away, -^ Huwts, in the Face, a Dinner all the Day, ^ At Night, with empty Bowels, grumbles o'er the Play. J And now the modifh Prentice he implores, ~f Who, with his Mafter's Cafh, ftol'n out of Doors, J> Imploys it on a Brace of Honourable Whores ; J While their good bulky Mother pleas'd, fits by, Bawd Regent of the Bubble Gallery. ^ Next to our mounted Friends, we humbly move, / Who all your Side-box Tricks are much above, ^ And never fail to pay us with your Love. j Ah Friends ! Poor Dorfet Garden-houfe is gone; Our merry Meetings there are all undone : Quite /off to us, fure for fome ilrange Mifdeeds, That tfrong Dog SampfonV pull'd it o'er our Heads, Snaps Rope like Thread; but when hit Fortune's told him, He 11 hear perhaps of Rope will one day hold him : At leatf, I hope, that our good-naturd Town Will find a way to pull his Prices down. Well, that's all! Now Gentlemen for the Play, On fecond Thoughts, Tve but two Words to fay; Such as it is for your Delight defign'd, Hear it, read, try, judge, and fpeak as you find. Q % Dramatic |