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Show g PROLOGUE. Quick are their Sieges, furious are their Fires %rce their Attacks, and bonndlefs thetr Defires. Before the Play's half ended, l'U engage To {hew you Beaux come crowding on the Stage, Who with fo little pains have always fped. They'll undertake to look a Lady dead. low have I fi>ook, and trembling flood with Awe, When here, behind the Scenes, I've feen them draw A Comb ; that dead-doing Weapon to the Heart, And turn each powder3d Hair into a Dart. When I have feen 'em fally on the Stage, Drefs'd to the War, and ready to engage, > I've mourn'd your Deftiny yet more their Fate, To think, that after Victories fo great. It fhou'd fo often prove their hard Mifliap To fneak into a Lane and get a Clap. # But, hufh I they're here already, I'll retire, And leave them to the Ladies to admire. They'll fhew you Twenty Thoufand Arts and Graces, 1 They'll entertain you with their [oft Grimaces, > Their SnufBox, aukwardBows and ugly Faces. > Jn fhort, they're after all fo much your Friends, That left the Play fljould fail, the Author ends, They have refolv'd to make you fome Amends. Between each Atl (performed by nicefi Rules) They'll treat- you with an Interlude of Fools* Of which that you may have the deeper Senfe, The Entertainment's at their own Expence. s T HE M^^^^HMHM^H^HHHMBHHHH^HH • . « * * * • . * ; £9:-)!- ? •..•• ) • T HE R E L A P S E: O R, Virtue in Danger. Being the Sequel of The Fool in Fajhion. &&&*&£ smm$%m®mm&. ACT I. SCENE I. Enter Lovelefs reading. O W true is that Philofophy, which fays Our Heaven is feared in our Minds I hro all die roving Plcafurcs of m y Youth. (Where Nights and Davs feem all iuni'd in Joy, Where the falfe Face of Luxury * 5 con- DifplayM |