HARLEQUIN JUNIOR;
MAGIC or the CESTUS

Pub. 57 Nov. 1770, by Strutt, Little Queen Street, Lincoln's Inn Fields,
E. Burn, N. 54, Tottenham Court Road, and
E. Newbery, Corner of St. Paul's Church Yard, London.

As Fancy does his heart incline,
Young Harlequin weds Columbine;
The Parents on both fides agree,
No mortal is so bleft as he.

Price 3d

Coloured 6d

Soon as their happy love is Crown'd,
How fweet the merry bells ring round;
Their Joys run on I fear too faft,
Joys to fleeting, not long to laft.

O Folly of the youthful Blood,
To quit the path thats Juft and good;
Behold he leaves the weeping fair,
For pleafures Vague,—he knows not where.

Midft Cavern'd rocks he takes his way,
A stranger to the cheering day;
Strange founds! and apparitions rife,
Which fill his mind with great furprize.

The great Magician comes in view,
With all his dread terrifick crew;
Who take the faithlefs wretch away,
And to a Dungeon deep convey.

The good Magician gives a wand,
To Columbines afflicted hand;
Of pow'r SUPREME, and magic fkill,
To manage all things to her will.

To Paris Harlequin is gone,
And left his faithful Wife at home;
To the grand Bank then ftrait he goes;
But Fortune does each with oppofe.

Thus difapointed Harlequin
Determi'n is to change the fene;
The Bank into an Air Balloon,
You fee is metamorphif'u foon.

The Crowd furpriz'd the fene Survey,
Some ſtamp, ſome fret, ſome faint away;
Yet fuch their fate we muſt declare,
Who build their Caſtles in the Air.

Now to Gibraltars tiege he goes,
Elliot to aid againſt his foes;
The red hot Balls you here admire,
Turn up and View their fatal fire.

The French and Spaniards are diſmay'd,
So well the dreadful Balls are play'd;
Brittons might ev'ry foe ſubdue,
If to themſelves they would be true.

At length the fearful conflicts o'er,
And Harly Vows to rove no more;
But will with faithful Columbine,
In Love, and Truth for ever Join.