The Beggar's Opera

_Through all the Employments of Life_ _Each Neighbour abuses his Brother_; _Whore and Rogue they call Husband and Wife_: _All Professions be-rogue one another_: _The Priest call...

_Lockit_. Noble Captain, you are welcome. You have not been a Lodger of mine this Year and half. You know the Custom, Sir. Garnish, Captain, Garnish. Hand me down those Fetters...

_Matt_. Poor Brother _Tom_ had an Accident this time Twelve-month, and so clever a made fellow he was, that I could not save him from those fleaing Rascals the Surgeons; and now...

_I’m like a Skiff on the Ocean tost_, _Now high_, _now low_, _with each Billow born_, _With her Rudder broke_, _and her Anchor lost_, _Deserted and all forlorn_. _While thus I l...

_Peachum_. It consists indeed of a great Variety of Articles.—It was worth to our People, in Fees of different kinds, above ten Instalments.—This is part of the Account, Brother...

_Since Laws were made for ev’ry Degree_, _To curb Vice in others_, _as well as me_, _I wonder we han’t better Company_, _Upon_ Tyburn_ Tree_! _But Gold from Law can take out the...

_Lucy_. Sir, here hath been _Peachum_ and his Daughter _Polly_, and to be sure they know the Ways of _Newgate_ as well as if they had been born and bred in the Place all their L...

_Macheath_. I am sorry, Gentlemen, the Road was so barren of Money. When my Friends are in Difficulties, I am always glad that my Fortune can be serviceable to them. [_Gives the...

_Lucy_. How happy am I, if you say this from your Heart! For I love thee so, that I could sooner bear to see thee hang’d than in the Arms of another.