EPILOGUE To the YOUNG QUAKER, Spoken by Mifs FRODSHAM, in the Character of DINAH. Auguft, 1783. N° O more nam'd Primrofe, I'm my Reuben's wife, And Dinah Sadboy I am call'd for life. There will I reft. Though alter'd be my name, Ye, Ye, who in marriage, wealth and grandeur feek, Think what a bleffing is a wife that's meek! A helpmate, true of heart, and full of Love, -Much art thou chang'd, my Reuben!-But 'twere ftrange To wish thy faithful Dinah too might change. To turn the night to day, the day to night; My mind shall still be pure, my thoughts ferene, No pomps and vanities will I purfue, But love my home, and love my husband too. VOL. III. X PROLOGUE PROLOGUE To the BIRTH-DAY, A COMEDY of Two Acts, Written by Mr. O'KEEFE, First acted at the THEATRE ROYAL in the HAY-MARKET, Auguft 12, 1783. Spoken by Mr. PALMER. WHEN Fate on fome tremendous act seems bent, And Nature labours with the dread event, Upon Upon his natal hour what triumphs wait! Long, very long, great George, protect the land, Thy race, like arrows in a Giant's hand! For ftill, tho' blights may nip fome infant rofe, And kill the budding beauty, ere it blows, Indulgent Heav'n prolongs th' illustrious line, Branching like th' Olive, clustering like the Vine. Long, very long, thy courfe of glory run, A bright example to thy Royal Son! Forming that Son to grace, like Thee, the throne, And make his Father's Virtues all his own! PROLOGUE, TO THE ELECTION OF THE MANAGERS. "C Spoken by MR. PALMER. June, 1784. URST be the verfe, how well fo e'er it flow, That tends to make one worthy man my foe; Gives Virtue Scandal, Innocence a Fear! Or from the foft-eyed virgin fteals a Tear!" But lays at no man's door Reproach or Crime. Yet fome with Critick nofe, and eye too keen, Scent double-meanings out and blaft each Scene; While fquint Suspicion holds her treacherous lamp, Fear moulds bafe coin, and Malice gives the ftamp. Falfehood's vile glofs converts the very Bible To Scandalum Magnatum, and a Libel. Thus once, when fick, Sir Gripus, as we're told, In grievous ufury grown rich and old, Bought |