A Bold Stroke for a Husband: A Comedy, as Acted at the Theatre Royal, in Covent Garden (Classic Reprint) - Softcover
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N O W, by my fanguine hopes, our author éries, With expeétation fparkling in her eyes, There's nothing here fhould feare me that Ifee, They all are faplings of the tough old tree Women, who wear Elyfium in their look, And men, ~unconquer'd as their native oak. But yet a word or two I'll briefly fay, To prove we're right in naming of our play. Éf human conduit, in each varied fcene, Th' extreme fucceeds beyond the patient mean; If eminence in rank our bofoms fire, If merit to preferment dare afpire, Follow the aétive, not the formal part, And fnatch a grace beyond the rules of, art. A 2-ue. Bold Strokes, from bounding genius firmly firuck, Attract fuccefs, more than the turns of luck. The bankrupt fwindler, though to pay unable, Oft mends his fortune by the E 0 table 3 Or, failing. There, he aéts a braver part, And takes a purfe, - a Bold Straéefar the cart. The gamefier too forgets each tender tie, And ventures his laf't guinea on a die, 'till ruin'd, and repenting of the evil, He hangs himfelf-a Bold Stratefo: the Devil. The-fortune hunter fports a fuit of lace, In this a Count, a Lord in t'other place, Succefs at length, begins his married life At Gretna Green - a Bold Stratefor a P7579. But are bold firokes to vicious men confin'd Does virtue lie inaéiive in the mind i It cannot be, while England's genius breathes, And many abrow is deck'd with laurel wreaths. Bold firokes in war are England's greatef't prides Think: how a Hoon has'liv'd, a manners died Our play holds forth the conquefi of a heart, By one bold firoke of nature, not of art. A female pen calls female virtue forth, And fairly fhews to man her fex's worth. Could men but fee what female fenfe can do.
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N O W, by my fanguine hopes, our author éries, With expeétation fparkling in her eyes, There's nothing here fhould feare me that Ifee, They all are faplings of the tough old tree Women, who wear Elyfium in their look, And men, ~unconquer'd as their native oak. But yet a word or two I'll briefly fay, To prove we're right in naming of our play. Éf human conduit, in each varied fcene, Th' extreme fucceeds beyond the patient mean; If eminence in rank our bofoms fire, If merit to preferment dare afpire, Follow the aétive, not the formal part, And fnatch a grace beyond the rules of, art. A 2-ue. Bold Strokes, from bounding genius firmly firuck, Attract fuccefs, more than the turns of luck. The bankrupt fwindler, though to pay unable, Oft mends his fortune by the E 0 table 3 Or, failing. There, he aéts a braver part, And takes a purfe, - a Bold Straéefar the cart. The gamefier too forgets each tender tie, And ventures his laf't guinea on a die, 'till ruin'd, and repenting of the evil, He hangs himfelf-a Bold Stratefo: the Devil. The-fortune hunter fports a fuit of lace, In this a Count, a Lord in t'other place, Succefs at length, begins his married life At Gretna Green - a Bold Stratefor a P7579. But are bold firokes to vicious men confin'd Does virtue lie inaéiive in the mind i It cannot be, while England's genius breathes, And many abrow is deck'd with laurel wreaths. Bold firokes in war are England's greatef't prides Think: how a Hoon has'liv'd, a manners died Our play holds forth the conquefi of a heart, By one bold firoke of nature, not of art. A female pen calls female virtue forth, And fairly fhews to man her fex's worth. Could men but fee what female fenfe can do.
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