.
Why, you Rascal, do you think I am afraid. Gentlemen and Ladies Your
Servant [#bowing to the Audience#] I is a Fellow to be Countenanced in
bringing Gentlemen's Characters upon the Stage.

Pas.
I am sure Sir, I shall be Iustifiable in bringing you upon the Stage.
And so I have ye Approbation of the Town, I don't value what You or any
Sharpor can do to me.

Count.
Who Says I am a Sharpor.

Pas.
The whole City of Westminster; By whom, Sir, amongst many others, You
are Presented as a Nusance.

Gentlemen, I have a Petition here, in my hand, against him and several
others, that will raise the utmost Indignation in every hones Breast--
Which, with leave of the Audience, I will read. Is it Your Pleasure that
I shou'd read it.

Omn.
Ay, ay, read it, read it.

To his most Equitable & Satyrical Worship, Seignior Pasquin. Censor
of Great Britain.

The humble Petition of Lord Love-Play, in Behalf of Himself and
many others.

Sheweth.

"That your Petitioners were, by Descent, the lawful Inheritors of
very great Fortunes; But, by the Arts and Combinations of the Noted
Hunt-Bubble, and the Knot-- And, by what is commonly called Playing
all the Game, Your Petitioners have been stript of their large
Possessions to the utter Ruin of themselves and their distressed
Families.

"That your Petitioners, who once made the most Splendid Appearance
at New Market, Whites, Georges, Bath, Tunbridge, and all Public
Places, are now in the most deplorable Condition.

"From these Premises, Your Petitionors humbly pray that Your
Equitable Worship will take their distress'd State into
Consideration, and Decree such Redress as to Your Satyrical
Worship shall seem meet--

"And your bubbled Petitioners shall ever pray."

Com.
Mr. Pasquin, your bringing such Men to Iustice, is a Public good, and
deserves Public Thanks. They are Charactors that all Men destest, and
that all Men wish to See punish'd.

Pas.
Sir you don't know half the Villany of these Men. Play, in its most
Honourable Commerce, is a pernicious Vice, but as Luxury, Fashion and
Avarice, have improved it all over Europe, It is now become an avow'd
System of Fraud and Ruin. The virtuous and Honourable, who Scorn
Advantage, are a constant Prey to the vicious and dishonourable, who
never Play without one. nor does the Vice Stop here: For the Sharper
having Stript his Bubble of his Estate, he next Corrupts his Mind, by
making him a Dec