ast memorial to the age, rama, and reform the stage.

hose boards shall Folly rear her head

RICK trod, and KEMBLE lives to tread ?

ll Farce display buffoonery's mask, 570 conceal his heroes in a cask?

¿ managers new scencs produce

RY, SKEFFINGTON, and Mother Goose?

ESPEARE, OTWAY, MASSINGER, forgot, st moulder, or in closets rot?

at pomp the daily prints proclaim,

ndidates for Attic fame!

y though LEWIS' spectres rise,

NGTON and Goose divide the prize.

sleeps with "Sleeping Beauties," but anon ve facetious acts comes thundering ont,

ile poor John Bull, bewildered with the scene,

es, wondering what the devil it can mean;

as some hands applaud, a venal few!

er than sleep, why John applauds it too.

ch are we now,

ah! wherefore should we turn 590

what our fathers were, unless to mourn? enerate Britons! are ye dead to shame,

kind to dullness, do you fear to blame?

r. GREENWOOD is, we believe, Scene-Painter to Drury Land e-as such, Mr. S. is much indebted to him.

r. S. is the illustrious author of the "Sleeping Beauty:" and Comedies, particularly "Maids and Bachelors," Baculaurii magis quam lauro digni.

pets languish o'er DESHAYES,

ise which his form displays; nds before the enraptured looks s and stripling Dukes :

I require little notice,-for the visage of the other, will enable us long to recollect these des, we are still black and blue from the

of the Lady's appearance in trowsers.

And beer u

her love-inspiring song,

ir neck and charm the listening throng!

our scythe, Suppressors of our Vice!

Saints! too delicately nice!

ecrees, our sinful souls to save,

tankards foam, no barbers shave;

drawn and beards unmown display

ev'rence for the Sabbath-day.

once the patron and the pile

620

folly, Greville and Argyle* !

iny blunder, such as mistaking a street for a man, I beg it it is the Institution, and not the Duke of that name, uded to.

E

Eunuch, the Hesperian choir, the soft lascivious lyre,

hom I am slightly acquainted, lost in the Argyle pounds at Backgammon; it is but justice to the to say, that some degree of disapprobation was e the implements of gaming allowed in a place of both sexes? A pleasant thing for the wives

who are blest or curst with such connections, to = rattling in one room, and the dice in another! self can testify, as a late unworthy member of an ally affects the morals of the higher orders, while move to the sound of a tabor and fiddle without or riotous behaviour.

bine;

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Champaign,

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The audie

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Now in lo

Mr. CONGREVE's Old Bachelor saith.

er elegantiarum” to Nero," and a very pretty