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# THE LOTTERY OFFICE KEEPER'S PRAYER!

KIND and benignant FORTUNE! aid an Adventurer proftrate before thy Shrine, I befeech thee. Infired by thy Smiles, I have long officiated in an Office dedicated to thy WorSHIP: Grant, I pray thee, Insurance to my Schemes, so that they may turn up Prizes, and prevent my looking Blank when bowing at thy Altar.

If by Chance I fhould enter on a matrimonial Speculation, grant, I befeech thee, throughout the whole of our Connexion, that my better Half may take a Quarter, an Eighth, or at leaft a Sixteenth Share in the good or bad Luck attendant on my fluctuating Undertakings. May ſhe never be guilty of any Thing that I may get Horns-by, nor Caufe me to fall a Martyr to Jealouſy, or Hazard my Eſteem by Carol-ing the Praifes of my Rivals.

Grant me, I pray thee, the ineſtimable Talent of poetical Puff making, fo may I, in the Strains of Pope, thus pour forth my lyrical Effusions:

" O ye whoſe Breeches Pockets burn,

" Give lucky Peter Puff a turn;

" When Fortune beckons, never ſcorn her,

" But feek her Office, round the Corner.

" You cannot well miftake the Door,

" The Lamp is green---the Number four."

And laſtly, I pray thee, with the indulgent Aid of mighty ſoporiferous SOMNUS, to caufe all old Women and Children to Dream inceſſantly on the Advantages gained by venturing in the Lottery, ſo ſhall the nocturnal Vifions of old Chairs and Tables be converted into lucky Numbers, and thy humble Petitioner benefited thereby.