 | The Invader of His Country : Or, The Fatal Resentment |  |
EPILOGUE,
Written by the Author, and intended to be Spoken.
Now
, Sirs, we wait to know if the same Doom
Attends our Heroe here that did at Rome.
By Noise and Uproar he was driven from thence,
While Merit was a poor and weak Defence:
But let him not by those be banish'd hence.
If he was banish'd thence, 'twas against Right,
And done by the mad Rabble's beastly Spight;
If the same Spight his Merit here attends,
Perhaps too here he'll find the chosen few his Friends.
But if these Friends prove weak in his Defence,
And he and Shakespear must be driven hence;
As when he formerly was banish'd Rome,
He led the Volscians on to urge its Doom;
So now he Swears, in his impetuous Rage,
Jack-Puddings, Eunuchs, Tumblers shall engage,
To damn the Muses, and destroy the Stage.
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