94Since by mistakes your best delights are made,

105(For ev'n your wives can please in masquerade)

116'Twere worth our while t'have drawn you in this day

127By a new name to our old honest play.

138But he that did this evening's treat prepare

149Bluntly resolved before-hand to declare

1510Your entertainment should be most old fare.

1611Yet hopes, since in rich Shakespeare's soil it grew,

1712'Twill relish yet with those whose tastes are true,

1813And his ambition is to please a few.

1914If then this heap of flowers shall chance to wear

2015Fresh beauty in the order they now bear,

2116Ev'n this Shakespeare's praise. Each rustic knows

2217'Mongst plenteous flowers a garland to compose,

2318Which strung by his course hand may fairer show,

2419But 'twas a power divine first made 'em grow.

2520Why should these scenes lie hid, in which we find

2621What may at once divert and teach the mind?

2722Morals were always proper for the stage,

2823But are even necessary in this age.

2924Poets must take the churches teaching trade,

3025Since priests their province of intrigue invade.

3126But we the worst in this exchange have got,

3227In vain our poets preach, whilst church-men plot.