Britons, attend: be worth like this approv'd, And show, you have the virtue to be mov'd. With honeft fcorn the firft fam'd Cato view'd Rome learning arts from Greece, whom she sub du'd ; 40 Your scene precariously fubfifts too long NOTES. 45 VER. 46. As Cato's felf, etc.] This alludes to that famous story of his coming into the Theatre, and going out again. EPILOGUE то Mr. Rowe's JANE SHORE. PR Defigned for Mrs. OLDFIELD. Rodigious this! the Frail-one of our Play From her own Sex fhould mercy find to-day! You might have held the pretty head afide, Peep'd in your fans, been serious, thus, and cry'd, The Play may pass----but that strange creature, Shore, I can't---indeed now---I fo hate a whore-- 5 Juft as a blockhead rubs his thoughtless skull, Our sex are still forgiving at their heart; II There are, 'tis true, who tell another tale, 15 That virtuous ladies envy while they rail; Such rage without betrays the fire within; In fome close corner of the foul, they fin; Still hoarding up, moft fcandaloufly nice, Amidft their virtues a referve of vice. The godly dame, who fleshly failings damns, Scolds with her maid, or with her chaplain crams. Would you enjoy foft nights and folid dinners? Faith, gallants, board with faints, and bed with finners. 20 Well, if our Author in the Wife offends, 25 Tells us, that Cato dearly lov❜d his Wife : The Stoic Husband was the glorious thing. The man had courage, was a fage, 'tis true, 39 45. your face; To fee a piece of failing flesh and blood, Faith, let the modeft Matrons of the town 49 Come here in crouds, and stare the strumpet down. END of the FIRST VOLUME. 552310 |