EPILOGU E.

Spoken by EUPHROSYNE, with the Wand and Cup.

SOME critic, or I'm deceived, will afk,

"What means this wild, this allegoric mafque?
Beyond all bounds of truth this author shoots;
Can wands or cups transform men into brutes?
'Tis idle ftuff!". -And yet I'll prove it true;
Attend; for fure I mean it not of you.

The mealy fop, that taftes my cup, may try,
How quick the change from beau to butterfly;
But o'er the Infect Should the Brute prevail,
He grins a monkey with a length of tail.
One ftroke of this, as fure as Cupid's arrow,
Turns the warm youth into a wanton Sparrow.
Nay, the cold prude becomes a flave to love,
Feels a new warmth, and cooes a billing dove.
The fly coquet, whofe artful tears beguile
Unwary hearts, weeps a falfe crocodile.
Dull poring pedants, Shock'd at truth's keen light,
Turn moles, and plunge again in friendly night;
Mifers grow vultures, of rapacious mind,
Or more than vultures, they devour their kind;
Flatt'rers cameleons, creeping on the ground,
With ev'ry changing colour changing round.
The party-fool, beneath his heavy load,
Drudges a driven afs thro' dirty road.
While guzzling fots, their Spoufes fay, are bogs;
And fnarling criticks, authors fwear, are dogs.
But to be grave, I hope we've prov'd at leaft,
All vice is folly, and makes man a beast.

*The Wand.

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