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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=420377" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Beggar's Opera (excerpts)</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Air I.An old woman clothed in gray, &c.1-<br> Through all the employments of life<br>-<br> Each neighbour abuses his brother;<br>-<br> Whore and rogue they call husband and wife:<br>-<br> All professions be-rogue one another.<br>-<br> The priest calls the lawyer a cheat,<br>-<br> The lawyer be-knaves the divine;<br>-<br> And the statesman, because he's so great,<br>-<br> Thinks his trade as honest as mine.Air XI.A Soldier and a Sailor2-<br> A fox may steal your hens, sir,<br>-<br> A whore your health and pence, sir,<br>-<br> Your daughter rob your chest, sir,<br>-<br> Your wife may steal your rest, sir,<br>-<br> A thief your goods and plate.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">-<br> But this is all but picking,<br>-<br> With rest, pence, chest and chicken;<br>-<br> It ever was decreed, sir,<br>-<br> If lawyer's hand is fee'd, sir,<br>-</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> He steals your whole estate.Air XXII.Cotillon3-<br> Youth's the season made for joys,<br>-<br> Love is then our duty,<br>-<br> She alone who that employs,<br>-<br> Well deserves her beauty.<br>-<br> Let's be gay,<br>-<br> While we may,<br>-<br> Beauty's a flower, despised in decay.CHORUS.3-<br> Youth's the season, &c.Cotillon3-<br> Let us drink and sport to-day,<br>-</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Ours is not to-morrow.<br>-</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Love with youth flies swift away,<br>-</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Age is nought but sorrow.<br>-</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Dance and sing,<br>-</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Time's on the wing,<br>-</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Life never knows the return of spring.CHORUS.3-</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Let us drink, &c.Air XXVI.4-<br>Courtiers, Courtiers think it no harm, &c.4-<br> Man may escape from rope and gun;<br>-<br> Nay, some have out-liv'd the doctor's pill;<br>-<br> Who takes a woman must be undone,<br>-<br> That basilisk is sure to kill.<br>-<br> The fly that sips treacle is lost in the sweets,<br>-<br> So he that tastes woman, woman, woman,<br>-<br> He that tastes woman, ruin meets.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=John+Gay">John Gay</a><div class=q>
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 Each neighbour abuses his brother;
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