{"product_id":"2940012841650","title":"THE TOWN-FOPP: OR Sir Timothy Tawdrey","description":"Scanned, proofed and corrected from the original edition for your reading pleasure.  It is also searchable and contains hyper-links to chapters. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e***\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom the Prologue:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs Country Squire, who yet had never known\u003cbr\u003eThe long-expected Joy of being in Town;\u003cbr\u003eWhose careful Parents scarce permitted Heir\u003cbr\u003eTo ride from home, unless to neighbouring Fair;\u003cbr\u003eAt last by happy Chance is hither led,\u003cbr\u003eTo purchase Clap with loss of Maidenhead;\u003cbr\u003eTurns wondrous gay, bedizen'd to Excess;\u003cbr\u003eTill he is all Burlesque in Mode and Dress:\u003cbr\u003eLearns to talk loud in Pit, grows wily too,\u003cbr\u003eThat is to say, makes mighty Noise and Show.\u003cbr\u003eSo a young Poet, who had never been\u003cbr\u003eDabling beyond the Height of Ballading;\u003cbr\u003eWho, in his brisk Essays, durst ne'er excel\u003cbr\u003eThe lucky Flight of rhyming Doggerel,\u003cbr\u003eSets up with this sufficient Stock on Stage,\u003cbr\u003eAnd has, perchance, the luck to please the Age.\u003cbr\u003eHe draws you in, like cozening Citizen;\u003cbr\u003eCares not how bad the Ware, so Shop be fine.\u003cbr\u003eAs tawdry Gown and Petticoat gain more\u003cbr\u003e(Tho on a dull diseas'd ill-favour'd Whore)\u003cbr\u003eThan prettier Frugal, tho on Holy-day, \u003cbr\u003eWhen every City-Spark has leave to play, \u003cbr\u003e—Damn her, she must be sound, she is so gay; \u003cbr\u003eSo let the Scenes be fine, you'll ne'er enquire\u003cbr\u003eFor Sense, but lofty Flights in nimble Wire.\u003cbr\u003e—What we present to Day is none of these,\u003cbr\u003eBut we cou'd wish it were, for we wou'd please,\u003cbr\u003eAnd that you'll swear we hardly meant to do:\u003cbr\u003eYet here's no Sense; Pox on't, but here's no Show;\u003cbr\u003eBut a plain Story, that will give a Taste\u003cbr\u003eOf what your Grandsires lov'd i'th' Age that's past.","brand":"Leila's Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47160971624688,"sku":"2940012841650","price":1.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940012841650_p0.jpg?v=1763573281","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940012841650","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}