Here I would end, be'ng much in hast, And tyr'd with scribbling so fast: Howe're a word or two I'll add, Lest you infer from what I've said, That Poverty's the only cause Which makes me thus desert my Muse. Thus far, indeed, the cause 't'as bin, As 'tis th' effect of such a sin. For who 'n that Art can hope to thrive, Which does such wicked Licence give? Whose first Founders _Pagans_ were, Groping for Truth they knew not where? And shall we _Christians_ Sacrifice To their Fantastick _Deities_? No, were I Rich 'nough to set up, I would not keep a Poet's Shop; Nor Traffick in such dang'rous Ware, They sell so cheap, and buy so dear. I'ld not pick up each Whore I meet, } Give her a _Guynie_ and a Treat; } Nor maintain Pimps nor Bawds for wit.} No, I'ld not give one brass Half-crown For all the Bawdry in the Town: For all th' Intrigues your _Whetstone_-Bawd, _More-Fields_, or _Tower-Hill_ afford. To see _Miss Betty_ ev'ry day, Dance Naked, or the Tumbler play. How well upon her Head she stood, Or with what Art she us'd the Rod. Or how she was unrig'd and kick'd, When _Sir John_ found his Pockets pick'd. I have not been at _Newgate_ yet, To learn the Lifter, or the Cheat. But such lewd Learning let alone To the brisk _Poets_ of the _Town_. _FINIS._ PRESS VARIANTS AND NOTES PRESS VARIANTS Copies collated: Clark (CLC); Trinity College, Cambridge, H. 6. 93^9 (CT1) and H. 10. 28^6 (CT2); British Museum (L); Folger (WF1); Folger/Luttrell (WF2). Sheet B--Outer Forme. _Uncorrected_: CT1, CT2, L, WF1. _Corrected_: CLC, WF2. B4^v, _l._ 7. Paragraph indentation supplied. Sheet B--Inner Forme. _Uncorrected_: CLC, CT1, WF1. _Corrected_: CT2, L, WF2. B4^r, _l._ 1. Chymsts] Chymists Sheet C--Inner Forme. _Uncorrected_: CT1, CT2, CLC _Corrected_: L, WF1, WF2. C3^v, _l._ 15. _Peruque_] _Perruque_ C4^r, _l._ 13. _Crevat_] _Cravat_ NOTES These notes are of necessity selective and are chiefly concerned with the identification of persons. No attempt has been made to indicate the complex textual relationships of the two versions. Where detailed evidence for identifications is not given, the reader is referred to the article mentioned above. Title-page. _Parve_ ... _quò_-. Ovid, _Tristia_, I, i, 1-2. A2^v-A3^v. The authors of the extracts are Dryden, Shadwell, Lacy, Lee, and Banks. The Banks extract is unlikely to have been in print for more than a few weeks at the time _PdT_ was published. The corresponding list in _PC_ is called "Quotations" and contains twenty-three passages of which only two reappear in _PdT_. A4^r: 15-16. _Philip, the first Christian Emperour._ Marcus Julius Philipus, c. 204-249.