would say something about inconstancy.

_Dash_. I can lend you a verse, and it will do very well too.

"Inconstancy will never have an end."

End rhimes very well with wind.

_Blot_. It will do well enough for the middle of a poem.

_Dash_. Ay, ay, anything will do well enough for the middle of a
poem. If you can but get twenty good lines to place at the beginning
for a taste, it will sell very well.

_Quib_. So that, according to you, Mr Dash, a poet acts pretty
much on the same principles with an oister-woman.

_Dash_. Pox take your simile, it has set my chaps a watering: but
come, let us leave off work for a while, and hear Mr Quibble's song.

_Quib_. My pipes are pure and clear, and my stomach is as hollow
as any trumpet in Europe.

_Dash_. Come, the song.

SONG.

AIR. _Ye Commons and Peers_.

How unhappy's the fate