144 THE HISTORY OF NEWMARKET. [Book IX. 



In the fourth act Lord Bonvile arrives upon the 

 scene preparatory to the horse-race, in which he hopes 

 to win 500 pieces. Presently the jockeys appear, 

 Venture and Rider, when the following dialogue 

 ensues : 



Veil. He must be a Pegasus that beats me. 



Ri. Your confidence may deceave you, you will ride 

 Against a Jockey, that has horse-manshippe. 



Ven. A Jockey, a Jackanapes a horse-backe rather, 

 A Monkey or a Masty dogge would shew 

 A Giant to him, and I were Alexander 

 I would lay the world upon my Mare, she shall 

 Run with the devill for a hundred pieces, 

 Make the match who will. . . . 



Itinerant musicians arrive among the spectators, 

 when the following racing ditty is sung, in which the 

 names of the favourite horses on the Turf are intro- 

 duced : — 



Come, Muses, all that dwell nigh the fountain. 



Made by the winged horse's heel, 



Which firked with his Rider over each mountain. 



Let me your galloping rapture feel : 

 I do not sing of fleas or frogs. 

 Nor of the well-mouthed hunting dogs. 



Let me be just, all praises must 



Be given to well-breath'd lilian Thrust. 



Young Constable and Kill Deers famous, 

 The Cat, the Mouse, and Noddy Gray, 

 With nimble Pegabrig you cannot shame us 

 With Spaniard nor with Spinola : 



