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The VILLAGE OPERA. A&t
AIR VII. Ye Commons and Peers, ^c.
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WhcKever your Game
Is tofteal off the Dame^
Take the Chamber-maid with you^ I pray,
li^ith Her Sign and Seal,
Andfie^li never reveal.
For her own Sake^-yeur amorous Play.
Mt$.,Betiy is a fine Woman ; upon my Soul, Sir, file is a verf
inie Woman.
CoL Yob like her, Brujht
Brttjh. Ah '. Sir, I have {]gh*d and wiOiM for her many a long
Night in vain. I am hardly able, Sir, to think of any thing felfe.
Why, Sir, (lie has fet the whole Village in a Flame, and if you
do nor canyherofF to-uightj it will be in Aflies before to-mor-
row Morning.
Col, She has a mixture both of the Prude and the Coquette,
yet whether fhe gives Fain or Pleafure no-body preium^s to
chiim her ; yet (he never ufes her Power with Infolence; if yoii
Icel her, it is as if you feel the Principle of Light, at a diliance
it animstes with genial Warmth^ but the Glory is too powerful
when near.
AIR Vlll. The Play of Love, ^c
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Off the rifing Dawn of Light,
Safe the joyous Eye may gaze y
Bxt Blind'riefs overwhelms the Sight
That vemmes on Meridian Ilajs.
Brufi.
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