The Songs, &c. in the Cabinet of fancy: or evening exhibition As it is performed at the Theatre-Royal in the Hay-market [by G. A. Stevens] |
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AIR I.
[Let us laugh, while laughing is good]
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Let us laugh, while laughing is good,For Mirth fit subjects were now;
We only laugh where we shou'd;
'Tis pity but all knew how.
To laugh's the jest,
The rational jest,
It is life's better half;
What's life we say,
But a laugh and away?—
Away, while we live with a laugh.
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We'll laugh at wit's running to waste,Well laugh at the follies we view:
So we laugh at what is call'd Fate,
And what it is other folks do.
In vain those rhimes
Which rail at the times,
A better receipt we've by half:
What's life we say,
But a laugh and away?—
Away, while we live with a laugh.
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