That, Madam, is thereafter as they be.
SLAMMEKIN. I, Madam, was once kept by a Jew; and bating their
Religion, to Women they are a good sort of People.
TAWDRY. Now for my Part, I own I like an old Fellow: For we always make
them pay for what they can't do.
VIXEN. A spruce Prentice, let me tell you Ladies, is no ill thing, they
bleed freely. I have sent at least two or three Dozen of them in my time to
the Plantations.
JENNY. But to be sure, Sir, with so much Good-fortune as you have had upon
the Road, you must be grown immensely rich.
MACHEATH. The Road, indeed, hath done me Justice, but the Gaming-Table
hath been my Ruin.
AIR XXIV.--When once I lay with another Man's Wife, &c.
JENNY.
The Gamesters and Lawyers are Jugglers alike,
If they meddle, your all is in Danger.
Like Gypsies, if once they can finger a Souse,
Your Pockets they pick, and they pilfer your House
And give your Estate to a Stranger.
A Man of Courage should never put any thing to the Risque but his Life.
These are the Tools of a Man of Honour. Cards and Dice are fit only for
cowardly Cheats, who prey upon their Friends.
[She takes up his Pistol. Tawdry takes up the other.
TAWDRY. This, Sir, is fitter for your Hand. Besides your loss of Money,
'tis a loss to the Ladies. Gaming takes you off from Women. How fond could I
be of you! But before Company 'tis ill bred.
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