Ne'er repine at your Confinement For your Children or your Wife Wisdom lies in true Resignment, Thro' the various Scenes of life; Every Island is a prison Strongly guarded by the Sea Kings & Princes for that Reason Prisoners are as well as we.
Tune continues; but is Slower & Slower, till render'd as Dismal as possible. Rake takes a Pistol from his Pocket, which only the Audience observe—he in great agitation of Mind goes off, & the Report of a Pistol is heard—at which they all stand aghast.—Pause awhile.—
Enter Virtue.
Recitative.
Thus does the baneful influence of Vice Onward to sure destruction man Entice; In time be warn'd—Hope liberty to see Benevolence & Pity'll set you free.
Chorus of Prisoners.
This let the Captive's Supplication be, May Virtue & Benevolence soon set us free, May we taste smiling liberty & tread her happy plain Where Virtue & Benevolence in Concord reign.
Recitative. Virtue.
Then Vice discard & follow Virtue's train View her Retreat & join her Sacred Strain.
Scene Changes.