A New Dramatic Entertainment Called the Royal Chace or, Merlin's Cave With several new Comic Scenes of Action Introduced into the Grotesque Pantomime of Jupiter and Europa |
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SCENE III.
Changes to a Hall.A Company of Country Lads and Lasses making merry.
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Come
, Neighbours, now we've made our Hay,
The Sun in haste
Drives to the West,
With Sports, with Sports, conclude the Day:
The Sun in haste
Drives to the West,
With Sports, with Sports, conclude the Day:
Let every Man choose out his Lass,
And then salute her on the Grass;
And when you find
She's coming kind,
Let not that Moment pass.
And then salute her on the Grass;
And when you find
She's coming kind,
Let not that Moment pass.
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Then we'll toss off our Bowls
With true Love and Honour,
To all kind loving Girls,
And the Lord of the Manor.
With true Love and Honour,
To all kind loving Girls,
And the Lord of the Manor.
II.
At Night when in the Hall we're sat,
With good brown Bowls
To cheer our Souls,
And raise, and raise a merry Chat.
With good brown Bowls
To cheer our Souls,
And raise, and raise a merry Chat.
When Blood grows warm, and Love runs high,
And Jokes about the Table fly,
Then we retreat,
And that repeat,
Which all would gladly try.
And Jokes about the Table fly,
Then we retreat,
And that repeat,
Which all would gladly try.
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Then we'll toss off our Bowls,
With true Love and Honour,
To all kind loving Girls,
And the Lord of the Manor.
With true Love and Honour,
To all kind loving Girls,
And the Lord of the Manor.
III.
Let lazy Great Ones of the Town,
Drink Night away,
And sleep all Day,
'Till Gouty, Gouty they are grown.
Drink Night away,
And sleep all Day,
'Till Gouty, Gouty they are grown.
Our daily Works such Vigour give,
That Nightly Sports we oft revive;
And kiss our Dames
With stronger Flames
Than any Prince alive.
That Nightly Sports we oft revive;
And kiss our Dames
With stronger Flames
Than any Prince alive.
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Then we'll toss off our Bowls,
With true Love and Honour,
To all kind loving Girls,
And the Lord of the Manor.
With true Love and Honour,
To all kind loving Girls,
And the Lord of the Manor.
[Exeunt.
[Comic continued.]
| A New Dramatic Entertainment Called the Royal Chace or, Merlin's Cave | |