. The complete works of Henry Fielding, esq., with an essay on the life, genius and achievement of the author. y both to treat. This takes a guinea, that your whole estate. Gallants, believe our passions are the same. And virtuous women, though they dread the shame. Let em but play secure, all love the game. For though some prude her lover long may vex. Her coyness is put on, she loves your sex. At you the pretty things their airs display; For you we dance, we sing, we smile, we pray; On you we dream all night, we think all day. For you the Mall and Ring with beauties swarm; You teach soft Sen
. The complete works of Henry Fielding, esq., with an essay on the life, genius and achievement of the author. y both to treat. This takes a guinea, that your whole estate. Gallants, believe our passions are the same. And virtuous women, though they dread the shame. Let em but play secure, all love the game. For though some prude her lover long may vex. Her coyness is put on, she loves your sex. At you the pretty things their airs display; For you we dance, we sing, we smile, we pray; On you we dream all night, we think all day. For you the Mall and Ring with beauties swarm; You teach soft Senesinos airs to charm. For thin would be th assembly of the fair At operas were none but eunuchs there. In short, you are the business of our be a mistress kept the strumpet all the modest virgins to be prudes may cant of virtues and of faith, we only differ in our MOCK DOCTOR- O R The Dumb L j\ d y Cufd. A COMEDY- Done from MO Lin RE. As it is Adled at the Theatre-Royalin D RURY- Lan e. By His M A J E S T Ys the MVSICK prefixed to each LONDON: Piinted for J. Watts at the Printlng-Office lAIVildCourt near Lincoln*SInn Fields, M DCG XXXII. [PriceOneShillins.] TO DR. joh:n misaubin SiR^—Were I not well assured of your great candour, theopinion I have of your nice judgment and refined tastemight give me terrible apprehensions, while I am presenting3ou a piece, wherein, I fear, much injustice is done to anauthor, whose beauties you can so exquisitely relish in theoriginal. It would be hard to make a more delicate complimentto a lady than by dedicating to her the Sixth Satire ofJuvenal. Such an address must naturally suppose her freefrom all the vices and follies there inveighed against. Per-mit me, therefore, sir, to prefix to a farce, wherein Quacksare so cleverly exposed, the name of one who will be remem-bered as an honour to his profession, while there is a singlepractitioner in town at whose door there is
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