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Excerpt from The Apostate, a Tragedy, in Five Acts: As Performed at the Theatre Royal, Covent-Garden Nay, now while I expose her, turns round speedy, And to Pescara cries - "Did you hear that, Macready?" Say, damsels, who beheld her fate, have ye Love warm enough to go so far as she? She went into the other world, I ween, - Ye would just go so far as - Gretna-Green! Yet, love too fervent freezes in a trice, As water boil'd will soonest turn to ice. Not so with you - You first inquire, approve, And, after, fall judiciously in love; For, if an elder brother have th' estate, The younger, faultless otherwise, you hate, For that vile crime - of being born too late! But when you wed, these transient follies flown, Leave constancy, love, honour, all your own! Home, stranger, friend, you solace, charm, endear; And now 'tis yours our trembling hopes to cheer! Support that sex, too, who to-night are scorn'd, For mark - one only fair our stage adorn'd. The world's a stage; and when one only fair, Call'd Eve, was on it, sad things happen'd there: - That stage a serpent ruin'd; he could hiss; Then, ladies, let not serpents ruin this. And, if to us you owe a single tear, Now give your smiles to bless our efforts here. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.