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{AIR XVIII. A Beggar got a Beadle.}
[I.]
There was a certain Usurer,
He had a pretty Niece;
Was courted by a Barrister,
Who was her doating Piece.
Her Uncle to prevent the same,
Did all that in him lay,
For which he's very much to blame,
As all good People say.[II.]
A Country 'Squire was to wed,
This fair and dainty Dame;
But such Contraries in a Bed,
Wou'd be a monst'rous Shame:
To see a Lady bright and gay,
Of Fortune, and of Charms,
So shamefully be thrown away,
Into a Looby's Arms.[III.]
The Lovers, thus distracted,
It set 'em on a Plot;
Which lately has been acted,
And---shall I tell you what,
The Gentleman disguis'd himself
Like to the Country 'Squire.
Deceiv'd the old mischievous Elf,
And got his Heart's Desire.Muck.
I dont like this Song.
Comb.
Then you don't like Truth, Sir.
Muck.
What! d'ye mean to affront me?
Comb.
Wou'd you have me tell a Lye, Sir?
Muck.
Get out of my House, you Baggage.
Comb.
I only stay to take my Mistress with me;
and see, here she comes.
Notes
Extracted from: Chadwyck-Healey's Literature Online: ED version 97:1)
Carey, H.: The Honest Yorkshire-Man (1736): a machine-readable transcript, English Prose Drama Full-Text Database, Cambridge, Chadwyck-Healey, 1997
Chadwyck-Healey's Notes:
Date first performed: 11 Jul 1735.
Peter Millington's Notes:
Some of the lines from this scene are incorporated in the Plough Play from Swinderby Lincs. (C.R.Baskervill, 1924, pp.263-268).