That nothing but adoring it should buy.

Yet the rich cullies may their boasting spare;

They purchase but sophisticated ware.

'Tis prodigality that buys deceit,

Where both the giver and the taker cheat.

Men but refine on the old half-crown way;

And women fight, like Swissers, for their pay.


PROLOGUE
TO
THE TRUE WIDOW, 1679.