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<HEAD>PROLOGUE TO THE KING AND QUEEN, At the Opening of their THEATRE.</HEAD>
<BYLINE>Spoken by Mr. <HI>Batterton:</HI> Written by Mr. <HI>Dryden.</HI></BYLINE>
<LG>
<L>Since Faction ebbs, and Rogues grow out of Fa&s;hion,</L>
<L>Their penny-Scribes take care t' inform the Nation,</L>
<L>How well men thrive in this or that Plantation.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>How <HI>Pen&s;ilvania</HI>'s Air agrees with Quakers,</L>
<L>And <HI>Carolina</HI>'s with A&s;&s;ociators:</L>
<L>Both e'en too good for Madmen and for Traitors.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Truth is, our Land with Saints is &s;o run o'er,</L>
<L>And every Age produces &s;uch a &s;tore,</L>
<L>That now there's need of two <HI>New-Englands</HI> more.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>What's this, you'll &s;ay, to Us and our Vocation?</L>
<L>Onely thus much, that we have left our Station,</L>
<L>And made this Theatre our new Plantation.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The Factious Natives never could agree;</L>
<L>But aiming, as they call'd it, to be Free,</L>
<L>Tho&s;e Play-hou&s;e Whiggs <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">et up for Property.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Some &s;ay they no Obedience paid of late;</L>
<L>But wou'd new Fears and Jealou&s;ies create;</L>
<L>Till top&s;i-turvy they had turn'd the State.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Plain Sen&s;e, without the Tallent of Foretelling,</L>
<L>Might gue&s;s 'twou'd end in down-right knocks and quelling:</L>
<L>For &s;eldome comes there better of Rebelling.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>When Men will, needle&s;ly, their Freedom barter</L>
<L>For Lawle&s;s Pow'r, &s;ometimes they catch a Tartar:</L>
<L>(There's a damn'd word that rhimes to this call'd Charter.)</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>But, &s;ince the Victory with Us remains,</L>
<L>You &s;hall be call'd to Twelve in all our Gains:</L>
<L>(If you'll not think us &s;awcy for our pains.)</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Old Men &s;hall have good old Plays to delight 'em:</L>
<L>And you fair Ladies and Gallants that &s;light 'em,</L>
<L>We'll treat with good new Plays; if our new Wits can writ'em.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>We'll take no blundring Ver&s;e, no fu&s;tian Tumour,</L>
<L>No dribling Love, from this or that Pre&s;umer:</L>
<L>No dull fat Fool &s;hamm'd on the Stage for humour.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>For, faith, &s;ome of'em &s;uch vile &s;tuff have made,</L>
<L>As none but Fools or Fairies ever Play'd;</L>
<L>But 't was, as Shopmen &s;ay, to force a Trade.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>We've giv'n you Tragedies, all Sen&s;e defying:</L>
<L>And &s;inging men, in wofull Metre dying;</L>
<L>This 'tis when heavy Lubbers will be flying.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>All the&s;e di&s;a&s;ters we well hope to weather;</L>
<L>We bring you none of our old Lumber hether:</L>
<L>Whigg Poets and Whigg Sheriffs may hang together.</L>
</LG>
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<DIV1 TYPE="epilogue">
<HEAD>EPILOGUE.</HEAD>
<LG>
<L>NEW Mini&s;ters, when fir&s;t they get in <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="3 letters">ce,</L>
<L>Mu&s;t have a care to Plea&s;e; and that's our Ca&s;e:</L>
<L>Some Laws for publick Welfare we <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">e&s;ign,</L>
<L>If You, the Power &s;upreme will plea&s;e to joyn:</L>
<L>There are a &s;ort of Pratlers in the Pit,</L>
<L>Who either have, or who pretend to Wit:</L>
<L>The&s;e noi&s;ie Sirs &s;o loud their parts rehear&s;e,</L>
<L>That oft the Play is &s;ilenc'd by the Farce:</L>
<L>Let &s;uch be dumb, this Penal<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="3 letters"> to &s;hun,</L>
<L>Each to be thought my Lady <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 span">e&s;t Son.</L>
<L>But &s;tay, methinks &s;ome Viz<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 span"> Ma&s;que I &s;ee,</L>
<L>Ca&s;t out her Lure from the mi<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 span">llery:</L>
<L>About her all the flutt'ring Sparks <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters">e rang'd;</L>
<L>The Noi&s;e continues though the Scene is chang'd:</L>
<L>Now growling, &s;puttring, wauling, &s;uch a clutter,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 line"></L>
<L>Fine Love no doubt, but e'er two days are o'er ye,</L>
<L>The Surgeon will be told a wofull &s;tory.</L>
<L>Let Vizard Ma&s;que her naked Face expo&s;e,</L>
<L>On pain of being thought to want a No&s;e:</L>
<L>Then for your Laqueys, and your Train be&s;ide,</L>
<L>(By what e'er Name or Title dignify'd)</L>
<L>They roar &s;o loud, you'd think behind the Stairs</L>
<L><HI>Tom Dove,</HI> and all the Brotherhood of Bears:</L>
<L>They're grown a Nui&s;ance, beyond all Di&s;a&s;ters,</L>
<L>We've none &s;o great but their unpaying Ma&s;ters.</L>
<L>We beg you, Sirs, to beg your Men, that they</L>
<L>Wou'd plea&s;e to give you leave to hear the Play.</L>
<L>Next, in the Play-hou&s;e &s;pare your precious Lives;</L>
<L>Think, like good Chri&s;tians, on your Bearns and Wives:</L>
<L>Think on your Souls; but by your lugging forth,</L>
<L>It &s;eems you know how little they are Worth:</L>
<L>If none of the&s;e will move the Warlike Mind,</L>
<L>Think on the helple&s;s Whoore you leave behind!</L>
<L>We beg you la&s;t, our Scene-room to forbear,</L>
<L>And leave our Goods and Chattels to our Care:</L>
<L>Alas, our Women are but wa&s;hy Toys,</L>
<L>And wholly taken up in Stage employs:</L>
<L>Poor willing Tits they are: but yet I doubt</L>
<L>This double Duty &s;oon will wear 'em out.</L>
<L>Then you are watcht be&s;ides, with jealous care;</L>
<L>What if my Lady's Page &s;hould find you there?</L>
<L>My Lady knows t'a tittle what there's in ye;</L>
<L>No pa&s;&s;ing your guilt Shilling for a Guiney.</L>
<L>Thus, Gentlemen, we have &s;umm'd up in &s;hort,</L>
<L>Our Grievances, from Country, Town and Court;</L>
<L>Which humbly we &s;ubmit to your good plea&s;ure;</L>
<L>But fir&s;t vote Money, then Redre&s;s at lea&s;ure.</L>
</LG>
<TRAILER>FINIS.</TRAILER>
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