But give you all their reasons for 'em too.
Some honour may to me from hence arise;
But if, by my endeavours you grow wise,
And what you once so prais'd, shall now despise;
Then I'll cry out, swell'd with poetic rage,
'Tis I, John Lacy, have reform'd your stage.
ACT I.—Scene I.
Johnson and Smith.
Johns. Honest Frank! I am glad to see thee with all my heart: how long hast thou been in town?