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Prologue
PROLOGUE
tlY THE AUTHOR . HEIGHO for-a Husband ! The title's not f .-ad—But the Piece it precedes , is it merry or sac ! ? That remains to be preSv'd—meantime let ' s descant--Tho' a saying so trite no explaining cm war .:. At boarding school , Miss , having entered her teens , Soon learns of her . eldtrs what s . ft Heigho ! means ;
Or at home with . Mania , reading Novels so charming , Finds her tender Heighos ! grow each day more alarming : E'en Mama , ' as Miss reads , can ' t fuppress the sweet sigh j-Aud , were Spbusy but dead , would again Heigho ! cry . When mature , the young Lady , if nothing worth chances ; Proclaims Heigho ! aloud , and to Gretna Green prances ; The prudish coy Females who thirty ntta ' -ii , CryHeiho for a Husband ! at lengthbut in vain !
, g ,, For the men say , No , no ? and , the down off the peach , Reject what before they stood cip-coe to reach , The widisw of sixty , her seventh mate dead , Cries Heigho ! for an eighth , with one tooth in her ltead 3 A Colt ' s tooth , some call it , but I am afraid The owner ' s more properly 'titled a jade ! All ranks it pervades too , as well as all ages , Heigho for a Husband ! the Peeress engages ;
With four pearls on her coronet in her own fight , The Baroness Sighs for five pearls day and night ; O , were she a Countess , how happy her state ! She marries an Earl , and is wretchedly great ! Should an eye to the pocket pollute bur soft scenes . The Author from Nature to paint only means : From Nature alone ? No ! lie owns it with pride , That Nature and FARQJ-H AR him equally guide ! If therefore yon track him in something well known , "S Should lie copy , with taste , and his prototype own , f No Plagiarist deem him , but favour the loan . J
Epilogue
EPILOGUE
BY GEORGE COLMANj JUN . ESQ , THERE arc some Husbands here , as I conje < Sure , Who , before now , have heard a certain lecture—Our curtain drawn , hcUecfure cah be apter Than . one upon the matrimonial chapter : I'll give you mine in brief— -and let you know Why Spinsters for a husband cry Heigho !
Why men run mad ibr wives ' till they have got 'em— - j'll search you all , depend on't , to the bottom . How sweetly glide the hours with Man and Wife ! First , for a trading pair , in lower life---When frugal Mrs . MUNS , on foggy nights , One fat and cheerless tallow candle lights , Wiicn spouse and she experience ; o'er its gloom , The stifling transports of the small b _ tck room
, While DICK minds shop—all topicks as they handle , fie smokes—while Dearee darns , and snuffs the candle . " Lauk ! vat a frosty night ! " cries she , " I loves " A frost- —ve sells so many fur-skin gloves . " For my part— " then she darns— " 1 thinks the tax " On gloves vas made to break poor people ' s bucks--. ' I 2
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Prologue
PROLOGUE
tlY THE AUTHOR . HEIGHO for-a Husband ! The title's not f .-ad—But the Piece it precedes , is it merry or sac ! ? That remains to be preSv'd—meantime let ' s descant--Tho' a saying so trite no explaining cm war .:. At boarding school , Miss , having entered her teens , Soon learns of her . eldtrs what s . ft Heigho ! means ;
Or at home with . Mania , reading Novels so charming , Finds her tender Heighos ! grow each day more alarming : E'en Mama , ' as Miss reads , can ' t fuppress the sweet sigh j-Aud , were Spbusy but dead , would again Heigho ! cry . When mature , the young Lady , if nothing worth chances ; Proclaims Heigho ! aloud , and to Gretna Green prances ; The prudish coy Females who thirty ntta ' -ii , CryHeiho for a Husband ! at lengthbut in vain !
, g ,, For the men say , No , no ? and , the down off the peach , Reject what before they stood cip-coe to reach , The widisw of sixty , her seventh mate dead , Cries Heigho ! for an eighth , with one tooth in her ltead 3 A Colt ' s tooth , some call it , but I am afraid The owner ' s more properly 'titled a jade ! All ranks it pervades too , as well as all ages , Heigho for a Husband ! the Peeress engages ;
With four pearls on her coronet in her own fight , The Baroness Sighs for five pearls day and night ; O , were she a Countess , how happy her state ! She marries an Earl , and is wretchedly great ! Should an eye to the pocket pollute bur soft scenes . The Author from Nature to paint only means : From Nature alone ? No ! lie owns it with pride , That Nature and FARQJ-H AR him equally guide ! If therefore yon track him in something well known , "S Should lie copy , with taste , and his prototype own , f No Plagiarist deem him , but favour the loan . J
Epilogue
EPILOGUE
BY GEORGE COLMANj JUN . ESQ , THERE arc some Husbands here , as I conje < Sure , Who , before now , have heard a certain lecture—Our curtain drawn , hcUecfure cah be apter Than . one upon the matrimonial chapter : I'll give you mine in brief— -and let you know Why Spinsters for a husband cry Heigho !
Why men run mad ibr wives ' till they have got 'em— - j'll search you all , depend on't , to the bottom . How sweetly glide the hours with Man and Wife ! First , for a trading pair , in lower life---When frugal Mrs . MUNS , on foggy nights , One fat and cheerless tallow candle lights , Wiicn spouse and she experience ; o'er its gloom , The stifling transports of the small b _ tck room
, While DICK minds shop—all topicks as they handle , fie smokes—while Dearee darns , and snuffs the candle . " Lauk ! vat a frosty night ! " cries she , " I loves " A frost- —ve sells so many fur-skin gloves . " For my part— " then she darns— " 1 thinks the tax " On gloves vas made to break poor people ' s bucks--. ' I 2