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Read Ebook: The Harlot's Progress (1733) The Rake's Progress (Ms. ca. 1778-1780) by Cibber Theophilus Klinger Mary F Author Of Introduction Etc
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See the Massy Chests Open'd, with Riches replete, Plate, Jewels, & Rent-Rolls an ample Estate; Bonds, Mortgages, Leases long buried are found, Lawyers Servants & Tradesmen Attending around: While with heart quite 'Elated, cheeks glowing with health, Discarding his love, gazing pleas'd at his wealth, Resolv'd each dull thought in gay pleasure to drown, The Libertine Rakewell--first starts on the Town.
His Levee attended by Bully & Sot Poets, Dancers, Musicians, his Mansion Resort; Boxers--Jockies, & Huntsmen, his patronage Court. And now, in a Brothel, mid nymphs void of Fame, Whom depravity's Render'd long Callous to Shame He squanders his Fortune to infamy meet And the Libertine Rakewell's the Dupe of Deceit.
Now poverty Steals on her victim apace And the gripe of Stern Law calls up dread in his Face, 'Till resolv'd to retrieve by his wants basely led He for Riches consents to deformity wed; Then hurries to gaming to drive away thought, Where Soon's dissipated the Wealth that she brought For by Sharpers Surrounded--Each planning his Fall The Libertine Rakewell's depriv'd of his all.
Welcome, Welcome, Brother Debtor To this poor but merry place; Where No Bailiff--Dun--or Setter, Dares to shew his frightful face. But, kind Sir, as you're a Stranger Down your Garnish you must pay, Or your Coat will be in Danger You must either Strip or pay.
During the above Business--They all Sing--
Ne'er repine at your Confinement For your Children or your Wife Wisdom lies in true Resignment, Thro' the various Scenes of life; Every Island is a prison Strongly guarded by the Sea Kings & Princes for that Reason Prisoners are as well as we.
Thus does the baneful influence of Vice Onward to sure destruction man Entice; In time be warn'd--Hope liberty to see Benevolence & Pity'll set you free.
This let the Captive's Supplication be, May Virtue & Benevolence soon set us free, May we taste smiling liberty & tread her happy plain Where Virtue & Benevolence in Concord reign.
Then Vice discard & follow Virtue's train View her Retreat & join her Sacred Strain.
Tho' Beauty & wealth may Unite, To dispell from each Bosom dull care 'Tis in vain to expect true delight, Unless Virtue's a Resident there.
This let the Captives &c--
Finis
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Transcriber's Notes
Small caps were replaced with ALL CAPS.
Throughout the document, the oe ligature was replaced with "oe".
Throughout the document, the superscripted letters are preceeded by a carot and are enclosed by curly brackets. Thus, the word "y^" represents a word where the "y" is normal and the "e" is superscripted; and the word "1^" represents a word where the "1" is normal and the "st" is superscripted. In the ordinal numbers the supercripted numbers where underlined by dotted lines. These dotted lines also appeared under some other of the superscripted letters.
Throughout the dialogues, there were words used to mimic accents of the speakers. Those words were retained as-is.
Errors in punctuations and inconsistent hyphenation were not corrected unless otherwise noted. For instance, sometimes there were spaces after slashes and sometimes there were no spaces after slashes. Sometimes there were mismatched quotation marks, where it was less than clear where the missing quotation marks should go.
Some words appear to be misspelled, but they were not corrected since this book is so old and spellings have changed over the centuries.
The acute accent for Settee was changed to Sett?e throughout the text.
On the second page 1 "& and End" was replaced with "& an End".
On the second page 5 , "rake" was replaced with "Rake".
On the second page 5 the word "Clown" was italizied to make it it consistent with other instances of the word.
On the second Page 6 "PS and OP" were replaced with "P.S. and O.P."
On the second page 8 a period was added after "coming from Church".
On the second page 11, "SCENE 12" was replaced with "Scene 12".
On the second page 12, the word "Mansion", which was crossed out in the book was deleted.
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