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A I R XLIX. How can I be fad on my Wedding-Day ?
[All Sing.]
Bridegrooms. How can we be fad on our Wedding-Day^
Brides. May every Hour ^ like the prefent^ be gay!
Bridegrooms. Let Mufiek^ andOancing^ and Laughing go round
Brides. And Life with every Blejfing be crown'd.
Char. I am the only Perfon now unhappy, in this Company,
Davy. You may have a Harlot, Captain.
Dun. For Shame, my Son.
Davy. Shame, Sir.^ He's a Soldier, a man of Pleafure.
A Wife wou'd be too heavy Luggage for him to carry about
with him.
Char. Right, Davy, Let thofe who are fo fcrupulous as not
to whore without a Licenfe, commit Matrimony, in God's
Name. Much Good may it do them. For my Part, when I
have a good Appetite, and fee good Meat before me, I never
wait the Ceremony of a formal Grace.
Davy. A loofeChap!
Char. Perhaps when I can have no Variety of Difhes, I may
be contented to feed upon one Piece of Meat.
To them^ Willy.
Willy. Captain, our Men are rank'd according to Order at
the Place arpointed.
Char. Good. Then let us go fcverally to the Chief*, and
attend them at the Interview. \_Exeunt all but Willy.
Willy. Wl>at a Pother has been about this Peace? One
liour, both Parties are agreed; the next, by the Ears. Nuw,
hey in fift on Pundilios; then are making mutual Conceflions.
tf our Men had but a Barrel of good Aqua-vita to warm their
riearts, we wou'd foon make them accommodate Differences.
Phe Balance of Pow'r lies in our Hands: And, if I were in
he Captain's Place, Pd not trifle away Time in tedious Nego-
iation, but make a IhortCut by Dint of Sword. Not but that
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