Air XXXII.
You'll think ere many Days ensue
This Sentence not severe;
I hang your Husband, Child, 'tis true,
But with him hang your Care.
Twang dang dillo dee.
Like a good Wife, go moan over your dying Husband. That, Child, is your
Duty--Consider, Girl, you can't have the Man and the Money too--so make
yourself as easy as you can, by getting all you can from him.
Scene 12.
LUCY, MACHEATH.
LUCY. Though the Ordinary was out of the way to-day, I hope, my Dear, you
will upon the first Opportunity, quiet my Scruples----Oh Sir!----my Father's
hard heart is not to be soften'd, and I am in the utmost Despair.
MACHEATH. But if I could raise a small Sum----Would not twenty Guineas,
think you, move him?----Of all the Arguments in the way of Business, the
Perquisite is the most prevailing----Your Father's Perquisites for the
Escape of Prisoners must amount to a considerable Sum in the Year. Money
well tim'd, and properly apply'd, will do anything.
Air XXXIII.--London Ladies.
If you at an Office solicit your Due,
And would not have Matters neglected;
You must quicken the Clerk with the Perquisite too,
To do what his Duty directed.
Or would you the Frowns of a Lady prevent,
She too has this palpable Failing,
The Perquisite softens her into Consent:
That Reason with all is prevailing.
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