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Show ii4 ^ R E L A P S E ; orr Taking Mifs.] C o m e , Madam : W e once again, you fee, are M a n and Wife And now, perhaps, the Bargain's ftruck for Life ; If Imiftake, and w e fhou'd part again, At leaft you fee you may have choice of M e n: Nay fhou'd the W a r at length fuch Havock make, That Lovers fhon'd qrow fcarce, yet for your fake, Kind Heaven always will preferve a Beau, 1 Pointing to L. Fop.] You'll find his Lordfbp ready! * (to cometo.j L. F. Her Ladyfhip fhall ftap m y Vitals, if I do. EPILOGUE, Spoken by Lord foffington. Gentlemen and Ladies, T H E S E People have regard you here to-day fin my Opinion) with a faucy Play ; Jn which the Author does prefume to foew, That Coxcomb, ab Origine was Beau.. Truly I think the thing of fo much weight, That if fome {harp Chaftifement bent his Fate, Gadys Curfe it may in time deflroy the State. I hold no one its Friend, I muft confefs, Who wou'd difcauntenance you Men of Drefs. Far give me leave to abferve, good Clothes are Things Have ever been of great fupport to Kings \ All Treafons come fram Slovens, it is not Within the reach of gentle Beaux to Plat; They have no Gall, no Spleen, no Teeth, no Stings, Of all Gad's Creatures, the moft harmlefs Things. Throng \ E P I L O G U E ^ ^ 115 jhrough+all Recard, no Prince was ever flain, ly one who had a Feather in his Brain. They're Men of too refin*d an Education, To fyuabble with a Court for a vile dirty Nation. frn very pafitive you never faw A through Republican a finifht Beau. Nor truly ftjaU you very often fee ^Jacobite much better dreft than he ; Infiiart, -through all the Courts that I have been in, Tour Men of Mifchief ftill are in faul Linen. Did ever one yet dance the Tyburn Jigg, With a free Air, or a well-pawder'd Wigg -? Did ever Highway-Man yet bid you ftand, With a fweet bawdy Snuff-bax in his Hand? Ar do you ever find they ask your Purfe As Men af Breeding do * Ladies^ Gad's Curfe, This Author is a Dag, and 'tis not fit Tovtfi)ou>d allow him evn one grain of Wit i To which, that his pretence may ne'er be nam*d% My humble Motion is~-« he may be damrfd* T HE |
