Pretends to taste, át Operas cries caro, And quits her Nancy Dawson, for Che Faro : Till having lost in age the power to kill, EPILOGUE 1 TO BE SPOKEN IN THE CHARACTER OF TONY LUMPKIN BY J. CRADOCK, Esq. WELL-now all's ended-and my comrades gone, Pray what becomes of mother's nonly son ? A hopeful blade !-in town I'll fix my station, And try to make a bluster in the nation; As for my cousin Neville, I renounce her, Off—in a crack—I'll carry big Bett Bouncer. Why should not I in the great world appear? I soon shall have a thousand pounds a year! No matter what a man may here inherit, In London-'gad, they've some regard to spirit. I see the horses prancing up the streets, And big Bett Bouncer bobs to all she meets; Then hoiks to jigs and pastimes ev'ry night— Not to the play-they say it a'n't polite; To Sadler's Wells perhaps, or operas go, And once by chance, to the roratorio. Thus here and there, for ever up and down, We'll set the fashions too to half the town; And then at auctions-money ne'er regard, Buy pictures like the great, ten pounds a yard : Zounds, we shall make these London gentry say, We know what's damn'd genteel as well as they. 1 This came too late to be spoken. |