 | John Gay - 1770 - 372 str.
...fever e ; Sofa"ve a ivretched ivife ! For For on the rope that han%s my dear, Depends poor ?o\\fsLife. Mrs. Peach. But your duty to your parents, huffy,...obliges you to hang him. What would many a wife give for fuch an opportunity. Polly. What is a jointure, what is widowhood to me? I know my heart, I cannot... | |
 | John Gay - 1772 - 386 str.
...her. AIR XII. Now ponder well, y$ parents dear. Polly. Ob, pcnifer well ! he not fevere ; N Sofave a wretched 'wife ! For on the rope that hangs my dear, Depends poor Polly'j life. Mrs. Peach. But your duty to your parents, hufly, obliges you to hang him. What would... | |
 | John Gay - 1772 - 346 str.
...the rope that hang! my dear, Depends poor Polly 's life. Mrs. Peach. But your duty to your parent?, huffy, obliges you to hang him. What would many a wife give for fuch an opportunity ! Polly. What is a jointure, what is widowhood to me ? I know my heart. I cannot... | |
 | John Milton, John Dalton - 1791 - 498 str.
....•?-••••-• - ••. AIR. Now ponder well, ye parents dear. Polly. Oh ponder well I be not severe ; So save a wretched wife ; for on the rope that hangs my dear, Depends poor Polly 's life. Mrs. Peach. But your duty to your parents, hussy, obliges you to hang him. What would... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - 1800 - 612 str.
...have mifcarricd and been damned, till Polly fung in a mod tender and affecting manner the words, " For on the rope that hangs my dear, Depends poor Polly's life." t " This is the air, that is fiid irrefiftibly to have conquered the laver who afterwards man led her."... | |
 | British drama - 1804 - 630 str.
...her. AIR. — A'uzu, ponder well, ye parents dear. Polly. Olí, ponder well ! be not severe ; To save a wretched wife; For, on the rope, that hangs my dear,...Polly's life. Mrs Peach. But your duty to your parents, hussy, obliges you to hang him. What would many a wife give for such an opportunity ! Pulli/. What... | |
 | 1804 - 630 str.
...her. AIR. — NOK, ponder reell, ye parents dear. Polly. Oh, ponder well ! be not severe ; To save a wretched wife ; For, on the rope, that hangs my...Polly's life. Mrs Peach. But your duty to your parents, hussy, obliges you to hang him. What would many a wife give for such an opportunity ! Polly. What is... | |
 | 1804 - 626 str.
...her. AIR. — Koie, ponder well, ye parents dear. Polly. Oh, ponder well ! be not severe ; To save a wretched wife; For, on the rope, that hangs my dear, Depends poor Polly's life. • Mrt Peach. But your duty to ynur parents, hussy, obliges you to hang him. What would many a wife... | |
 | William Cook - 1804 - 468 str.
...Polly aung the following address to her father: \ • M " Oh! ponder well — toe not severe; So save a wretched wife ! For on the rope that hangs my dear, Depends poor Polly's life." • [ . - / We shall close the account of this celebrated character with the following eulogium given... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Lisle Bowles - 1806 - 538 str.
...innocence, does more public fervice than all the Minifters of ftate from Adam to Walpole, and fo adieu. " For on the rope that hangs my dear, " Depends poor Polly's life." This is the Air that is faid irrefiftibly to have conquered the Lover who afterwards married her. WARTON.... | |
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Oh, ponder well! be not severe; So save a wretched Wife ! For on the Rope that hangs my Dear Depends poor Polly's Life. 
