And wings the dull Hours with Mirth, Musick and Wine;

Then jogs to the Play-house, and chats with the Masks,

And thence to [the Rose], where he takes his three Flasks.

There, great as a Cæsar, he revels, when drunk,

And [scours] all he meets, as he reels to his Punk;

Then finds the dear Girl in his Arms when he wakes.

What Life can compare with the Jolly Town-Rake’s?

II.

He, like the Great Turk, has his Favourite She;

But the Town’s his Seraglio, and still he lives free.