MRS. BULKLEY. Well, Madam, what if, after all this sparring, MISS CATLEY. And that our friendship may remain unbroken, MRS. BULKLEY. Agreed. MISS CATLEY. Agreed. MRS. BULKLEY. And now with late repentance, Un-epilogued the Poet waits his sentence. [Exeunt. SONG. "AH ME! WHEN SHALL I MARRY ME?" Intended to have been sung in the Comedy of "She Stoops to Conquer." AH me! when shall I marry me? Lovers are plenty, but fail to relieve me. He, fond youth, that could carry me, Offers to love, but means to deceive me. But I will rally, and combat the ruiner: Not a look, nor a smile shall my passion discover. She that gives all to the false one pursuing her, Makes but a penitent, and loses a lover. EPILOGUE. SPOKEN BY MR. LEE LEWIS, IN THE CHARACTER OF HARLEQUIN, AT HIS BENEFIT. HOLD! Prompter, hold! a word before your non sense: I'd speak a word or two, to ease my conscience. My pride forbids it ever should be said My heels eclipsed the honours of my head; [Takes off his mask. Oh! for a Richard's voice to catch the theme, "Give me another horse! bind up my wounds !-soft -'twas but a dream.” Ay, 'twas but a dream, for now there's no retreating, If I cease Harlequin, I cease from eating. 'Twas thus that Æsop's stag, a creature blameless, Yet something vain, like one that shall be nameless, Once on the margin of a fountain stood, And cavill'd at his image in the flood. "The deuce confound," he cries, "these drumstick shanks, They never have my gratitude nor thanks ; How piercing is that eye! how sleek that brow! Whilst thus he spoke; astonish'd, to his view, Near, and more near, the hounds and huntsmen drew; [Taking a jump through the stage door. SCENE-The Banks of the River Euphrates, near Babylon. ACT I. ISRAELITES sitting on the Banks of the Euphrates. FIRST PROPHET. Recitative. YE captive tribes, that hourly work and weep Suspend your woes awhile, the task suspend, Air. Our God is all we boast below, SECOND PROPHET. And though no temple richly drest, We'll make his temple in our breast, And offer up a tear. [The first stanza repeated by the CHORUS. ISRAELITISH WOMAN. Recitative. That strain once more! it bids remembrance rise, Ye Gilead groves, that fling perfumes around : But doubly sweet when Heaven was with us there. |