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Excerpt from The West Indian: A Comedy, as It Is Performed at the Theatre Royal in Drury-Lane
Ritics, ' hark forward noble game and new; A fine Weft Indian fiarted full in view: Hot as the foil, the clime, which gave him birth, You'll run him on a burning lcent to earth Yet don't devour him in his hiding place Bag him, he'll ferve you for another chace For fure that country has no feeble claim, Which (wells your commerce, and fupports your fam And in this humble lketch, we hope you'll find, Some emanations of a noble mind Some little touches, which, tho' void of art, May find perhaps their way into the heart. Another hero your excufe implores, Sent by your filler kingdom to your fhores; Doom'd by Religion's too fevere command, To fight for bread againft his native land A brave, unthinking, animated rogue, With here and there a touch upon the brogue; Laugh, but defpife him not, for on his lip His errors lie his heart can never trip. Others there are but may we not prevail To let the gentry tell their own plain tale? Shall they come in They'll pleafe you, if they can 3 If not, condemn the bard - but fpare the Man. For (peak, think, aft, or write in angry times, A wifh to pleafe is made the worft of crimes; Dire {lander now with black envenom'd dart, Stands ever arm'd to flab you to the heart. Roufe, Britons, 'roufe, for honour of your i?e, Your old good humour and be-feen to fmile.
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