Next the scene shifts to town, and there she soars,
The chop-house toast of ogling connoisseurs.
On 'squires and cits she there displays her arts,
And on the gridiron broils her lovers' hearts-
And as she smiles, her triumphs to complete,
E'en common-councilmen forget to eat.
The fourth act shews her wedded to the 'squire,
And madam now begins to hold it higher;
Pretends to taste, at operas cries caro,
And quits her Nancy Dawson, for Che Faro:
Doats upon dancing, and in all her pride
Swims round the room, the Heinel of Cheapside:
Ogles and leers with artificial skill,

Till having lost in age the power to kill,

She sits all night at cards, and ogles at spadille.
Such, through our lives the eventful history——
The fifth and last act still remains for me.
The bar-maid now for your protection prays,
Turns female Barrister, and pleads for Bays.

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Pray what becomes of mother's nonly son?
A hopeful blade!-in town I'll fix my station,
And try to make a bluster in the nation;
As for my cousin Neville, I renounce her;
Off-in a crack—I'll carry big Bett Bouncer.

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 Bett Bouncer bobs to all she meets; Then hoiks to jigs and pastimes ev'ry nightNot to the plays-they say it a'n't polite; To Sadler's-Wells perhaps, or operas go, And once by chance, to the roratorio.

VOL. II.

*This came too late to be spoken.

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Thus here and there, for ever up and down,
We'll set the fashions too to half the town;
And then at auctions--money ne'er regard,
Buy pictures like the great, ten pounds a yard:
Zounds, we shall make these London gentry say,
We know what's damn'd genteel as well as they.

AN

ORATORIO.

NOW FIRST PRINTED FROM THE ORIGINAL IN

DR. GOLDSMITH'S OWN HAND-WRITING.

THE PERSONS.

First Jewish Prophet.
Second 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.