The Works of Thomas Otway - 1 Author:Thomas Otway Title: The Works of Thomas Otway,: Alcibiades. Don Carlos, Prince of Spain. Titus and Berenice. the Cheats of Scapin. Friendship in Fashion. the Soldier's Fortune Volume: 1 General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1812 Original Publisher: Printed for F.C. and J. Rivington; T. Payne; Wilkie [a]nd Robinson; Longman, Hurs... more »t, Rees, Orme, and Brown; Cadell and Davies; J. Murray; J. Mawman; and R. Baldwin. Subjects: English drama Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: NEVER did rhymer greater hazard run 'Mongst us by your severity undone: Tho' we, alas ! to oblige you have done most, And bought ye pleasures at your ozcn sad cost: Yet all our best endeavours have been lost. So oft a statesman laboring to be good, His honesty's for treason understood: Whilst some false flat? ring minion of the court Shall play the traitor, and be honour'd fort. To you, known judges of what's sense and wit, Our author swears he gladly will submit : But there's a sort of things infest the pit, That will be witty, spite of nature too, And, to be thought so, haunt and pester you. Hither sometimes those would-be-wits repair In quest of you ; where if you not appear, Cries out Pugh! Damn me, what do we do here? Strait up he starts, his garniture then puts In order, so he cocks, and out he struts To the coffee-house, where he about him looks ; Spies friend, cries Jack -- I've been to night at the Duke's: They, silly rogues, are all undone, my dear, I gad! not one of sense that I saw there. Thus to himself he'd reputation gather Of wit, and good acquaintance, but has neither. Wit has indeed a stranger been of late, 'Mongst its pretenders nought so strange as that. Both h...« less