THE BASSET-TABLE, Τ ΑΝ ECLOGUE. CARDELIA. SMILINDA. CARDELIA. HE Baffet-Table spread, the Tallier come; Why stays Smilinda in the Dreffing-room? Rife, penfive Nymph; the Tallier waits for you. SMILINDA. Ah, Madam, fince my Sharper is untrue, Fair. CARDELIA. Is this the cause of your romantic strains? SMILINDA. Is that the grief, which you compare with mine? 10 35 CARDELIA. CARDELIA. A lover loft, is but a common care; And prudent Nymphs against that change prepare: SMILINDA. See Betty Lovet! very à propos, She all the cares of Love and Play does know : LOVET. Tell, tell your griefs; attentive will I stay, Though time is precious, and I want fome Tea. CARDELIA. Behold this Equipage, by Mathers wrought, SMILINDA. 20 -2.5 30 35 This Snuff-box,-once the pledge of Sharper's love, When rival beauties for the Present ftrove; At Corticelli's he the Raffle won; Then firft his Paffion was in public shown: Hazardia blush'd, and turn'd her head afide, 40 This This Snuff-box,-on the Hinge fee Brilliants fhine: CARDELIA. Alas! far leffer losses than I bear, Have made a Soldier figh, a Lover swear. But ah! what aggravates the killing smart, 45 50 $5 By whofe vile arts this heavy grief I bear; She, at whose name I shed these spiteful tears, She owes to me the very charms she wears. An awkward Thing, when first she came to Town; Her Shape unfashion'd, and her Face unknown: бо She was my friend; I taught her first to spread I introduc'd her to the Park and Plays; CARDELIA. Wretch that I was, how often have I swore, 65 79 SMILINDA. SMILINDA. How many Maids have Sharper's vows decefv'd! How many curs'd the moment they believ'd! Yet his known Falfehoods could no Warning prove: Ah! what is Warning to a Maid in Love ? CARDELIA. 7:5 But of what marble must that breast be form'd, And fee if reason must not there be loft. What more than marble must that heart compose, 85 90 95 Think Think of that moment, you who Prudence boaft; CARDELIA. At the Groom-Porter's, batter'd Bullies play, Some Dukes at Marybone bowl Time away. But who the Bowl, or rattling Dice compares To Baffet's heavenly Joys, and pleasing Cares? SMILINDA. Soft Simplicetta doats upon a Beau; Prudina likes a Man, and laughs at Show. Their feveral graces in my Sharper meet; Strong as the Footman, as the Master sweet. LOVET. Cease your contention, which has been too long; I grow impatient, and the Tea's too strong. 100 105 110 VER |