The works of Mr. Thomas Brown Serious and Comical, In Prose and Verse; In four volumes. The Fourth Edition, Corrected, and much Enlarged from his Originals never before publish'd. With a key to all his Writings |
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Jo. Haines's Reformation-Prologue.
Adieu Will's Coffee-House too, Beaus, Captains, Wits,Who have been so very kind to me by fits.
Farewell, I now must herd with sober Cits.
Where I may speak my Mind, and fear no snub,
With Friends will lend, as well as pay a Club.
What tho' they ne'er broke Jest or Pate at Locket's?
They've Sense enough, for all that, in their Pockets.
I do but think, leading this Virtuous Life,
What a Comfort I shall be to my poor Wife!
At Home by ten a Clock, in Bed by eleven,
Where I will make my former Scores all even.
“This being decreed, I've nothing more to do,
“But fix myself a Rent-charge now on you,
Humbly beseeching ------
“That I, like Parish Brat, Forlorn and Poor,
“That's laid for want, at the next Rich Man's Door,
“Swath'd in ill-luck, the Charity may get
“Of you the great Church-Wardens of the Pit.
Then tho' my Voice should fail, as that will hap in,
I'm sure you'll guess my Meaning by my gaping.
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