Change but the garment, and they'll all engage

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To take each part, and act in every age.

Cull'd from all houses, what a house are they!

Swept from all barns, our borough-critics say;

But with some portion of a critic's ire,

We all endure them; there are some admire:

They might have praise, confined to farce alone;

Full well they grin—they should not try to groan;

But then our servants' and our seamen's wives