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A<ail. The BEGGAR'S OPERA. 49
Then One he fmgles from the Crew,
And cheers the happy Hen ;
With how do you do, and hv) do you do>
And how do you do again.
Mach. Ah Jenny! thou art a dear Slut.
Trull. Pray, Madam, Were you ever in keeping ?
Tazvd. I hope, Madam, I han't been fo Jong upon the Town,
but I have met withfome good- fortune as well as my Neighbours.
Trull. Pardon me, Madam, I meant no harm by the Queftion ;
'Twas only in the way of Converfation.
Tawd. Indeed, Madam, if I had not been a Fool, I might
have liv'd very handfomly with mylaft Friend. But upon- his
miffing five Guineas, he turn'd me off. Now I never fufpecled
he had counted them.
Slam. Who do you look upon, Madam, as your bed fort of
Keepers ?
Trull. That, Madam, is thereafter as they be.
Slam. I, Madam, was once kept by a Jew, and bating their
Religion, to Women they are a good fort of People.
Tazvd. Now for my Par.t, I own I like an old Fellow : For
we always make them pay for what they can't do.
Vix. A fpruce Prentice Jet me tell you, Ladies, is no ill thing,
they bleed freely. I have lent at leaf! two or three Dozen of them
in my time to the Plantations.
Jen. But to be fure 3 Sir, with fo much Good -fortune as you
have had upon the Road, you mult be grown immenfly rich.
Mach. The Road, indeed, hath done me Julhce, but the
Gaming-Table hath been my Ruin.
A I R XXIV. When once I lay with another Man's Wife, &c.
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Jtr\'.?%he Gameflers and Lawyers are Jugglers alike,
If they meddle, your all is in Danger.
Like Gypfies, if once they can finger a Soufe,
Tour Pockets they pick, and they pilfer your Houfe,
And give your EJlate to a Stranger,
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