Now he exact of all, wastes in delight, / Riots in pleasure, and neglects the law.

There is no aesthetic distance here separating actors from audience and placing the depicted events in an unenterable world of illusion...

We come not with design of wastful Prey, To drive the Country, force the Swains away:

A little bit of cash now means more to the boys than the promise of a fortune who knows when. Bird in the hand, and all […]