Enter all the rest, and sing.
Chor. We know &c.
1. Gip. Come then, and follow, a prize, a prize, a prize..
2. Gip. Give the word then, and helloa.
All. A prize, a prize, a prize.
1. Gip. Here are Gallants and Ladies have fortunes to tell.
2. Gip. We’l tell e’m good Fortune if they give us a spell.
1. Gip. A hand crost with silver the Spirit infuses.
2. Gip. There’s no Prophet lately that mettle refuses.
1. Gip. Men get Heaven now by Bargain and Sale.
Chor. Masses, Trentals and Dirges
Are not had for no Charges,
And a Vicar for nothing won’t tell
you a Tale.
All. Masses, &c.
1. Gip. All things are bought and sold.
2. Gip. Good Fortune goes with Gold.
1. Gip. Fall on to your Trading then.
Men Gip. W’are for the Ladies.
Wom. Gip. And we for the Men.
1. Gip. To Cael. Lady, you have lost a Lover, Cross my hand, I’le more discover.
2. Gip. To Anto. My Lord, I know you baseness scorn, And would be loath to wear a Horn.
1. Gip. To Eug. Lady, some do speak you fair, That hatred to your welfare bear.
2. Gip. To Ger. My Lord, you Love a handsom Lady, She Loves you as well it may be.
1. Gip. sings. Thus we seldom
miss the matter,
Things past we can tell, by these Generals
well,
And ne’re stay to prove the truth
of the latter.
All. Things past, &c.
1. To Cael. You shall Live long and happily, Lady.
2. To Anto. My Lord, I can tell you, good Fortunes your Friend.
1. To Eug. You shall e’re long play with your own Baby.
2. To Ger. Your Love my Lord, will have good end.
1. Gip. sings. Thus we Live merrily, merrily, merrily, And thus to our Dancing we sing; Our Lands and our Livings Lye in others believings, When to all Men we tell the same thing: And thus to our Dancing we sing. Thus we, &c.
[An Antique of Gipsies, and Exeunt.
Anto. By this we see that all the Worlds a Cheat, Where truths and falshoods lye so intermixt, And are so like each other, that ’tis hard To find the difference; who would not think these People A real pack of such as we call Gipsies.
Ger. Things perfectly alike are but the same;
And these were Gipsies, if we did not know
How to consider them the contrary;
So in Terrestial things there is not one
But takes its Form and Nature from our fancy;
Not its own being, and is what we do think it.
Anto. But truth is still it self.