EPILOGUE,' TO BE SPOKEN IN THE CHARACTER OF TONY LUMPKIN. BY J. CRADOCK, Esq. WELL-now all's ended-and my comrades gone, Why should not I in the great world appear? I soon shall have a thousand pounds a-year! No matter what a man may here inherit, In London-gad, they've some regard to spirit. I see the horses prancing up the streets, And big Bet Bouncer bobs to all she meets; Then hoiks to jigs and pastimes, every night— Not to the plays-they say it a'n't polite; This came too late to be spoken. To Sadler's Wells, perhaps, or operas go, THE PERSONS. FIRST JEWISH PROPHET. ISRAELITISH WOMAN. FIRST CHALDEAN PRIEST. SECOND CHALDEAN PRIEST. CHALDEAN WOMAN. CHORUS OF YOUTHS AND VIRGINS. SCENE THE BANKS OF THE RIVER EUPHRATES, NEAR BABYLON. ACT I. FIRST PROPHET. RECITATIVE. YE captive tribes, that hourly work and weep AIR. FIRST PROPHET. Our God is all we boast below, To him we turn our eyes; SECOND PROPHET. And though no temple richly dressed, Nor sacrifice are here; |