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Show i74 The FATA* MA^IAGE. . i v\Ce h o w foon Self-Murder is deny'd m e . E " « ™ m e m b r a n c e! Could I be pad the Pain of m y £ But I muft live, grow gray w'tn 11 g E C.vaia.roorw- thrown upon a Rock, Scaping the Storm, t b o u r t t h W w o P d ^ 3f tfaSP JSB&S- ftarVd, T ^ e n i Nouri(hment to thee: S f f i T X > * but (hall n m Milk for thee. O had 1 pardon'd m y poor Btron's Fault! His hrft, his only Fault, this had not been ? o erring Youth there's fome Compamon due; K t whtlf with Rigour you their Crimes purfue, Wha^s their Misfortune, is a Crime in you. w ^ learn offending Children to forgive: uTAwCc* toWn, 'tis Heav'n's Prerogative EP E P I L O G U E , Spoken by Mrs. Verbruggen, NOW tell me, when you fav the Lady die, Were you not puded for a Reafon why ? A bnxom Damfel, and of Play-houfe Race, Not to out live th' injoyment of a Brace t Wire that the only Marriage-curfe in Store, How many would compound to fuffer more, And yet live on, with Comfort, to threefcore ? But on our Exit.* there is no relying : We Women are fo whimfical in Dying. 'Sme pine away for lofs of ogling Fellows: •ijfome have dy'd for Love, as Stories tell usi rra, fay our Hiftories, though long ago, )r having undergone a Rape, or fo, ? % V the fell Dagger, without more ado. But Time has laugh V thofe Tollies out of Fafhion: •'fure they'll never gam the approbation ladiesj who confult their Reputation. if a Rape mufl be efteem d a Curfe, 'rim Death, and Publication make it worfe. Id the Opinion of the World be trfd, rfll feme give Judgment on the Plaintiff's fide, all mufl own, 'tis moft egregious Nonfenfe, die for being pleas'd, with a fafe Confcience, ', look net on your Fans, nor turn away, tell me, Ladies, why do you Marry, pray ? to enjoy your Wifijes, as you may. H 4. } i |