About John Gay: John Gay is best remembered for The Beggar's Opera (1728), a ballad opera. The characters, including Captain Macheath and Polly Peachum, became household names.
But money, wife, is the true Fuller's Earth for reputations, there is not a spot or a stain but what it can take out.
We only part to meet again.
I must have women - there is nothing unbends the mind like them.
