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Show 282 E S 0 P. Woman. 'Tis Sympathy perhaps with you 5 You are cold, and I'm fo too. Old Man. My Ye#rs alone have froze my Blood ; Youthful Heat in Female Charms, Glowing in my aged Arms, Wou'd melt it down once more into a Flood. Woman. Women, alas, like Flints, ne'er bum alone; To make a Virgin know There's Fire within the Sterne, Some manly Steel mufi boldly firi\e the Blow. tOld Man. ' Affifl me only with your Charms, You'll find I'm Man, andftill am bold-, You'll find I ftill can ftrike, tho old : 1 only want your Aid to raife my Arm. * [Enter a Youth, who fei^es on the young Woman.~\ Youth. Who talks of Charms, who talks of Aid * J bring an Arm That wants no Charm, To rou^e the Fire that's in a flinty Maid. Retire old Age, • Winter be gone : Behold the youthful Spring comes gayly on. Here, here's a Torch to light a Virgin's Fire : To my Arms, my Love, my Joy; When Women have what they defire, They're neither cold nor coy. [She takes him in her Arms. The Song and Dance ended, Efop takes Euphronia and Oronces by the Hands, leading them forwards. Efop. By this time, m y young eager Couple, 'tis probable you wou'd be glad to be alone ; perhaps you'll have a mind to go to Bed even without your Supper \ for Brides and Bridegrooms eat little on their Wedding- Night. But fince if Matrimony were worn as it ought to ESOP. 283 to he, it wou'd perhaps fit eafier about us than ufually it does, I'll give you one word of Counfel, and fo 1 fhall releafe you. W h e n one is out of Humour, let the other be dumb. Let your Diverfions be fuch as both may have a fhare in 'em. Never let Familiarity exclude Refpect. Be clean in your Clothes, but nicely fo in your Perfons. Eat at one Table, lie in one Room, but fleep in two Beds : I'll tell the Ladies why. h } Turning to the Boxes. Ln the fprightly Month of May, When Males and Females fiport and play, And kifs and toy away the Day 5 An eager Sparrow and his Mate, Chirping on a Trie were fate, Full of Love- and full of Prate. They talkt of nothing but their Fires, Of raging Heats, and firong Defires, Of eternal Conftancy ; How true and faithful they wou'd be, Of this and that, andendlefs Joys, And a thoufand more fitch Toys: The only thing they apprehended, Was that their Lives wou'd be fo fhort, They cou'd not finijh half their Sport Before their Days were ended. But as from Bough to Bough they rove, They chane'd at lafi In furious hafte, On a Twig with Birdlime fipread, (Want of a more downy Bed) To ac~l a Seme of Love. Fatal it prov'd to both their Fires. For tho at length they broke away, And baul^d the School-Boy of his Prey, Which made him weep the livelong Day The Bridegroom, in the hafly ftrife, Was ftuckfo faft to his dear Wife, } |