One Kiss and then--one Kiss--begone--farewell.
MACHEATH. My Hand, my Heart, my Dear, is so riveted to thine, that I
cannot unloose my Hold.
POLLY. But my Papa may intercept thee, and then I should lose the very
glimmering of Hope. A few Weeks, perhaps, may reconcile us all. Shall thy
Polly hear from thee?
MACHEATH. Must I then go?
POLLY. And will not Absence change your Love?
MACHEATH. If you doubt it, let me stay--and be hang'd.
POLLY. O how I fear! how I tremble!----Go----but when Safety will give
you leave, you will be sure to see me again; for 'till then Polly is
wretched.
Air XVII.--O the Broom, &c.
[Parting, and looking back at each other with fondness; he at one Door, she
at the other.
MACHEATH.
The Miser thus a Shilling sees,
Which he's oblig'd to pay,
With sighs resigns it by degrees,
And fears 'tis gone for aye.
POLLY.
The Boy, thus when his Sparrow's flown,
The Bird in Silence eyes;
But soon as out of Sight 'tis gone,
Whines, whimpers, sobs and cries.
ACT II SCENE I
A Tavern near Newgate.
JEMMY TWITCHER, CROOK-FINGER'D JACK, WAT DREARY, ROBIN OF BAGSHOT, NIMMING
NED, HENRY PADINGTON, MATT OF THE MINT, BEN BUDGE, and the rest of the
Gang at the Table, with Wine, Brandy, and Tobacco.
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