[50] By Joseph Cradock.
[51] Cook and Green.
[52] Banks and Solander.
EPILOGUE
TO “THE SISTER,” A COMEDY.[53]
Spoken by Mrs. Bulkley.
What! five long acts—and all to make us wiser!
Our Authoress sure has wanted an adviser.
Had she consulted me, she should have made
Her moral play a speaking masquerade;
Warm’d up each bustling scene, and in her rage
Have emptied all the green-room on the stage:
My life on’t, this had kept her play from sinking,
Have pleas’d our eyes, and sav’d the pain of thinking.
Well, since she thus has shown her want of skill,
What if I give a masquerade?—I will.
But how? ay, there’s the rub! [pausing]—I’ve got my cue:
The world’s a masquerade! the maskers—you, you, you.