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B04848 A prologue spoken by Mrs. Bracegirdle, at the entertainment of Love for love. 1695 (1695) Wing P3660; Interim Tract Supplement Guide C.161.f.2[20] 922 1

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A PROLOGUE SPOKEN BY Mrs. Bracegirdle AT THE Entertainment of LOVE for LOVE CUstom which every where bears mighty Sway Brings me to Act the Orator to Day But Woman you will say are ill at Speeches 'T is true and therefore I appear in Breeches Not for Example to you City-Wives That by Prescription's settled for your Lives Was it for Gain the Husband first consented O yes their Gains are mightily augmented And yet methinks it must have cost some Strife A Passive Husband and an Active Wife 'T is aukward very aukward by my Life But to my Speech Assemblies of all Nations Still are suppos'd to open with Orations Mine shall begin to shew our Obligations To you our Benefactors lowly Bowing Whose Favours have prevented our Undoing A long Egyptian Bondage we endur'd 'Till Freedom by your Justice we procur'd Our Taskmasters were grown such very Jews We must at length have Play'd in Wooden Shoos Had not your Bounty taught us to refuse Freedom's of English Growth I think alone What for lost English Freedom can attone A Free-born Player loaths to be compell'd Our Rulers Tyranniz'd and We Rebell'd Freedom the Wise Man's Wish the Poor Mans Wealth Which you and I and most of us enjoy by Stealth The Soul of Pleasure and the Sweet of Life The Woman's Charter Widow Maid or Wife This they 'd have concell'd and thence grew the Strife But you perhaps wou'd have me here confess How we obtain'd the Favour Can 't you guess Why then I 'll tell you for I hate a Lie By Brib'ry errant Brib'ry let me die I was their Agent but by Jove I swear No honourable Member had a share Tho' young and able Members bid me Fair I chose a wiser way to make you willing Which has not cost the House a single Shilling Now you suspect at least I went a Billing You see I 'm Young and to that Air of Youth Some will add Beauty and a little Truth These pow'rful Charms improv'd by pow'rful Arts Prevail'd to captivate your op'ning Hearts Thus furnish'd I preferr'd my poor Petition And brib'd ye to commiserate our Condition I laugh'd and sigh'd and sung and leer'd upon ye With roguish loving Looks and that way won you The Young Men kiss'd me and the Old I kiss'd And luringly I led them as I list The Ladies in meer Pity took our Parts Pity 's the Darling Passion of their Hearts Thus Bribing or thus Brib'd fear no Disgraces For thus you may take Bribes and keep your Places FINIS Making Horns with her Hands over her Head