"Look on this form-where Humour quaint " and sly Dimples the cheek, and points the beaming eye; "Where gay Invention seems to boast its wiles, "In amorous hint and half-triumphant smiles; "Look on her well-does she seem form'd to "teach ? "Shou'd you expect to hear this Lady-preach ?* "Is grey experience suited to her youth? "Do solemn sentiments become that mouth? "Yet thus adorned with every graceful art "To charm the fancy and yet reach the heart"Must we displace her? and instead advance "The Goddess of the woeful countenance"The Sentimental Muse!-her emblems view "The Pilgrim's progress, and a sprig of rue!— "There fix'd in usurpation should she stand, "She'll snatch the dagger from her sister's hand: "And having made her votaries weep a flood, "Good Heav'n! she'll end her Comedies in "blood "Bid Harry Woodward break poor Dunstall's "crown! Imprison Quick-and knock Ned Shuter down; "While sad Barsanti-weeping o'er the scene, "Shall stab herself-or poison Mrs. Green." Acres in the 3d act says "'tis certain I have most * Dramatizing the penal laws and making the Stage a Court of ease to the Old Bailey is vastly moral, but vastly dull-We go to Church to be edified, to the Theatre to be amused. Antigallican Toes"-the same thought occurs in the Wasps of Aristophanes, where the old man on being desired to put on a pair of Lacedemonian boots, endeavours to excuse himself by saying that one of his toes is πανυ μισολακων--a sworn enemy to the Lacedemonians. What Acres says of swearing (in act 2d) "that "the best terms will grow obsolete" and that "Damns have had their day"-corresponds with an Old Epigram by Sir John Harrington— "In elder times an ancient custom was, "To swear in weighty matters by the mass; "note, They sware then by the cross of this same groat: "And when the cross was likewise held in scorn, "Then by their faith the common oath was 66 sworn. "Last having sworn away all faith and troth, Only G-d damn them is their common oath. “Thus custom kept decorum by gradation, "That losing mass, cross, faith, they find damna"tion." Matthew Paris says the Normans came with horrible oaths and such as the English had not been used to -several of our Monarchs of that formidable race had each of them a particular oath of which he became the protector and patron-some few of these have survived to this day, but, like other favourites without merit, find no respect now, when their masters are no more-(Ogden)-of modern oaths Gadso recommends itself by its indecency, and Zounds by its orthodoxy. Jan. 21. Henry 2d, with, never acted, Two Misers. Gripe and Hunks (the Two Misers) = Quick and Reinhold: Lively (nephew to Hunks) = Mattocks : Janisaries = Dunstall, &c.: Jenny (maid to Harriet) = Mrs. Mattocks: Harriet (niece to Gripe) = Miss Catley :- the scene lies in the great Square at Smyrna―in the centre of the stage there is a large Pyramid, under which the Mufti and his riches are said to be buried-the Two Misers form a scheme for breaking open the Pyramid, and carrying off the treasure-Lively and Harriet are mutually in love— Gripe leaves his keys in the door Jenny seizes them-she gives lively and Harriet a basket full of Gripe's bonds, jewels, &c.-the basket accidentally falls into a dry well-Lively goes down to fetch it— the Two Misers break open the Pyramid-Hunks descends into the vault under the Pyramid-he finds nothing but the Mufti's cloak and turban, which he throws on the stage-Gripe thinks that Hunks is cheating him—he lets down the iron grate through which Hunks had entered-on the approach of the Janisaries, Gripe applies a ladder to the wall of his house, and conceals himself in a window-the Janisaries draw up the bucket of the well-Lively appears in it dressed in the Mufti's cloak and turban— the Janisaries in their fright throw down the ladder, and run off--Lively, Harriet and Jenny, having recovered the basket, prepare to set off for EuropeHunks and Gripe implore their assistance; which they obtain on certain conditions this is a pretty good musical Farce by O'Hara-it is professedly borrowed from the French-and is better calculated for representation than perusal. = = = 24. As you like it. Jaques Barry: Orlando = Lewis: Adam Lee, being their 2d appearance in those characters: Touchstone Shuter: Amiens = Mattocks: Oliver Wroughton: Duke Sen. Hull: Duke Frederick Fearon: Rosalind Mrs. Barry: Celia (with the Cuckoo Song) = Mrs. Mattocks : Audrey Mrs. Pitt. = = = 28. Rivals, altered. Sir Lucius O'Trigger Clinch. Feb. 11. Fair Penitent-no characters-the cast was probably the same as on Nov. 10 1775, with the exception of Bensley in Horatio. 15. Revenge-see April 21 1774. 20. Hamlet Melmoth, 1st time: Queen = Mrs. Melmoth, 1st time. 21 and 23. Phædra and Hippolitus--no characters-the cast was probably, Theseus Barry: Hippolitus Lewis: Lycon Lee: Phædra Mrs. Barry: Ismena Mrs. Bulkley. (Bell. = = = March 2. Never acted, Cleonice, Princess of Bithynia. Pharnaces Lewis: Lycomedes (King of Bithynia) Bensley: Artabasus (King of Pontus) = Barry: Orontes (Prince of the blood of Bithynia) = Lee: Teramenes (General of Bithynia) = Hull: Agenor (friend to Pharnaces) = Whitfield: Cleonice = Mrs. Hartley : Arsinoe (daughter to Teremenes) = Miss Dayes-the scene lies in a city on the frontiers of Bithynia, and in the adjacent country-Pharnaces, the Prince of Pontus, had joined the Bithynians under the assumed name of Arsetes-he had fallen in love with Cleonice, and Cleonice with him—at the opening of the play, the truce between the two Kings is on the point of expiring-Arsetes wishes to leave the Bithynians without discovering who he really is-Lycomedes is informed that Pharnaces is expected in his father's camp before night-Orontes offers to challenge Pharnaces to single combat-Lycomedes proposes that Orontes and Arsetes should draw lots to decide who should be the Bithynian champion-the lot falls on Arsetes--he gives Araxes the dress which he wears as Arsetes-Araxes is killed by some assassins-when he is found lying on the ground, he is only able to pronounce the name of Pharnaces-Cleonice concludes that Arsetes had been killed by Pharnaces-in the 5th act, the troops of Artabasus force their way into the city-Lycomedes and Cleonice are brought in in chains-Artabasus takes off their chains-he declares that Arsetes and Pharnaces are the same person-Pharnaces fights with Orontes and kills him--the play ends with the union of Pharnaces and Cleonice-this is a poor T. by Hoole--the plot is borrowed from Mrs. Behn's Young King, (see D. G. 1679) or from the romance of Cleopatra, on which Mrs. Behn founded her play. 4. Cleonice, 2d time. Barry was laid up with the gout-Hull (whose superintendence of the Rehearsals had made him acquainted with the business of the play) undertook to perform Barry's part as well as he could, and Booth took Hull's-a handbill was published to this effect, and the indulgence of the audience requested. 18. Mrs. Barry's bt. Never acted, Edward and |