Whence all this rapture and these joys could flow;
For, if the seeing could such pleasure bring,
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What must the feeling?—feeling like a king?
In vain his wife, his uncle, and his friend,
Cried—"Peter! Peter! let such follies end;
'Tis well enough these vagabonds to see,
But would you partner with a showman be?"
"Showman!" said Peter, "did not Quin and Clive,
And Roscius-Garrick, by the science thrive?