Now pox on those who fhew a Court in wax! See! where the British youth, engag'd no more As the fair fields they fold to look fo fine. "That's velvet for a King!" the flatt'rer fwears; 'Tis true, for ten days hence 'twill be King Lear's. Our Court may juftly to our stage give rules, 220 That helps it both to fools-coats and to fools. And why not players ftrut in courtiers cloaths? For these are actors too, as well as those : Wants reach all states; they beg but better dret, And all is fplendid poverty at beft. NQ TES. 225 ing-house Fig's, a Prize-fighter's Academy, where the young Nobility receiv'd inftruction in those days: It was alfo cuftomary for the nobility and gentry to vifit the condemned criminals in Newgate. P. VER. 220. our flage give rules,] Alluding to the Chamberlain's Authority. VOL. IV. U b Think he which made your Waxen garden, and Transported it from Italy, to stand With us at London, flouts our Courtiers; for Some of the stocks are; their fruits baftard all. Had all the morning held, now the second As fresh and sweet their Apparels be, as be Their fields they fold to buy them. For a king the flatterers and bring Thofe hofe are, cry Them next week to the theatre to fell. Wants reach all states: me feems they do as well NOTES. A fhow of the Italian Garden in Waxwork, in the time of King James the First. That is, of wood. P. VER. 206. Court in wax!] A famous fhow of the Court of France, in-Wax-work. P. VER. 213. At Fig's, at White's,] White's was a noted gam 210 Now pox on thofe who fhew a Court in wax! As the fair fields they fold to look so fine. Wants reach all states; they beg but better dret, And all is fplendid poverty at beft. NQ TES. 225 ing-houfe: Fig's, a Prize-fighter's Academy, where the young Nobility receiv'd inftruction in those days: It was alfo cuftomary for the nobility and gentry to vifit the condemned criminals in Newgate. P. VER. 220. our flage give rules,] Alluding to the Chamberlain's Authority. VOL. IV. U b Think he which made your Waxen garden, and Transported it from Italy, to stand With us at London, flouts our Courtiers; for Juft fuch gay painted things, which no fap, nor As fresh and sweet their Apparels be, as be Their fields they fold to buy them. For a king Those hofe are, cry the flatterers and bring Them next week to the theatre to fell. Wants reach all states: me feems they do as well NOTES. b A fhow of the Italian Garden in Waxwork, in the time of King James the First. That is, of wood. P. VER. 206. Court in wax!] A famous fhow of the Court of France, in-Wax-work. P. VER. 213. At Fig's, at White's,] White's was a noted gam 210 Now pox on those who fhew a Court in wax ! As the fair fields they fold to look so fine. NQ TES. 225 ing-house: Fig's, a Prize-fighter's Academy, where the young Nobility receiv'd inftruction in those days: It was alfo cuftomary for the nobility and gentry to vifit the condemned criminals in Newgate. P. VER. 220. our fage give rules,] Alluding to the Chamberlain's Authority. VOL. IV. U |