The Fine Lady's Airs (1709) by Thomas Baker
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page 61 of 111 (54%)
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the Chaplain play _Jumping Joan_ upon the Base Viol.
_Shr_. Shall we adjourn to the _Rose_, the Drawer's my particular Friend, and will give us _French_ Wine for Eighteen Pence a Bottle. _Tot_. But lets ha' some Sack, do. _Knap_. Ay, and Sugar, my brave Boy, thou shall't have any thing; we'll be merry as mony'd Sailors over a Bowl o'Rum Punch, fluster'd as their Whores, and frolicksom, 'till we have spent all, drink Confusion to all Grand-mothers, and if the old Cat pretends to Ptysick it much longer, we'll get an Act of Parliament to poyson her. _Tot_. With all my Heart! they say the Parliament can do any thing. [_Exeunt._ SCENE, _A Drawing-Room._ _Enter the_ Collonel, _and_ Lady Rodomont _rising from Play_. L. _Rod_. Fling up the Cards, good _Collonel_, after two Games, the Pleasure becomes a Business; like my Lady _Shuffler_ that gits her living at 'em. _Col_. Your Ladyship's a Chymist in Diversions, extracts the quintessence of ev'ry Pleasure, and leaves the drossy Part upon the World; Agreements, when too tedious pall the Fancy, when short they quicken and refine our Appetites; and the sublimest Joy to Mortals known, evaporates the Moment |
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