ACT I:

Page 216, line 28, second col.

"Bayes. In fine, it shall read, and write, and act, and plot, and shew, ay, and pit, box, and gallery, 'egad, with any play in Europe."

The usual language of the Hon. Edward Howard, Esq., at the rehearsal of his plays. Ibid, line 56.

"Bayes. These my rules."

He who writ this, not without pain and thought,
From French and English theatres has brought
Th' exactest rules by which a play is wrought,--
The unity of action, place, and time,

The scenes unbroken, and a mingled chime
Of Johnson's humour with Corneille's rhyme.
Prologue to the Maiden Queen.

Page 217, line 29, second col. "Bayes. I writ that part only for her. You must know she is my mistress.

The part of Amarillis was acted by Mrs Anne Reeves, who, at that time, was kept by Mr Bayes. Page 218, line 28, first col.

Two kings of Brentford, supposed to be the two brothers, the king and the duke.-See page 239, line 16, second col.

Page 219, line 12, first col.

"Bayes. No, sir, there are certain ties upon me, that I cannot be disengaged from.”

He contracted with the king's company of actors, in the year 1668, for a whole share, to write them four plays a-year.

Ibid, line 47.

"So boar and sow, when any storm is nigh,
Snuff up, and smell it gathering in the sky;
Boar beckons sow to trot to chesnut groves,
And there consummate their unfinish'd loves:
Pensive in mud they wallow all alone,
And snore and gruntle to each other's moan."
In ridicule of this.

So two kind turtles, when a storm is nigh,
Look up, and see it gathering in the sky;
Each calls his mate to shelter in the groves,
Leaving, in murmurs, their unfinish'd loves:
Perch'd on some dropping branch, they sit alone,
And coo, and hearken to each other's moan.

Conquest of Granada, part II. p. 48.

Ibid, line 16, second col.

"Thun. I am the bold Thunder.
Light. The brisk Lightning I."
I am the evening as dark as night.

Slighted Maid, p. 48.

See the Amorous Prince, p. 20, 22, 39, 69, | where you will find all the chief commands and directions are given in whispers.

Page 220, line 19, second col.

"Mr William Wintershall was a most excellent, judicious actor, and the best instructor of others. He died in July, 1679."

Ibid, line 53.

Bayes: If I am to write familiar things, as sonnets."-See line 53, second column of this page.

Page 221, line 10, first col.

"Take snuff." He was a great taker of snuff, and made most of it himself.

Ibid, line 26, second col.

"Intrigue in a late play."

The Lost Lady, by Sir Robert Stapelton.
Ibid, line 51.

"As some tall pine, which we on Etna find
T' have stood the rage of many a boist'rous wind,
Feeling without that flames within do play,
Which would consume his root and sap away,
He spreads his woorsted arms unto the skies,
Silently grieves, all pale, repines, and dies;
So, shrouded up, your bright eye disappears.
Break forth, bright scorching sun, and dry my
tears."

In imitation of this passage.

As some fair tulip, by a storm oppressed,
Shrinks and folds its silken arms to rest,
up,
And, bending to the blast, all pale and dead,
Hears from within the wind sing round its head;
So, shrouded up, your beauty disappears :
Unveil, my love, and lay aside your fears,-
The storm that caus'd your fright is past and
gone. Conquest of Granada, part I. p. 55.

Page 222, line 58, second col. "Bayes. The whole state's turn'd," &c. Such easy turns of state are frequent in our modern plays, where we see princes dethroned, and governments changed, by very feeble means, and on slight occasions; particularly in Marriage a-la-Mode, a play writ since the first publication of this farce, where (to pass by the dulness of the state part, the obscurity of the comic, the near resemblance Leonidas bears to our Prince Prettyman, being sometimes a king's son, sometimes a shepherd's, and not to question how Amalthea comes to be a princess, her brother, the king's great favourite, being but a lord) 'tis worth our while to observe how easily the fierce and jealous usurper is deposed, and the right heir placed on the throne; and it is thus related by the said imaginary princess:

Amalth. Oh! gentlemen, if you have loyalty Or courage, shew it now: Leonidas Broke on a sudden from his guards, and snatching A sword from one, his back against the scaffold, Bravely defends himself, and owns aloud

He is our long lost king, found for this moment,
But if your valours help not, lost for ever.
Two of his guards, mov'd by the sense of virtue,
Are turn'd for him; and there they stand at bay,
Against an host of foes.

Marriage a-la-Mode, p. 69. This shews Mr Bayes to be a man of great constancy, and firm to his resolution, and not to be laughed out of his own method, agreeable to what he says in the next act:

"As long as I know my things are good, what care I what they say."

At night, into your bosom I will creep,
And buz but softly if you chance to sleep;
Yet in your dreams I will pass sweeping by,
And then both hum and buz before your eye."

In ridicule of this.

-My earthly part,

Which is my tyrant's right, death will remove;
I'll come all soul and spirit to your love:
With silent steps I'll follow you all day,
Or else before you in the sun-beams play:
I'll lead you hence to melancholy groves,
And there repeat the scenes of our past loves:
At night, I will within your curtains peep,
With empty arms embrace you while you sleep:
In gentle dreams I often will be by,
And sweep along before your closing eye:
All dangers from your bed I will remove,
But guard it most from any future love:
And when, at last, in pity, you will die,
I'll watch your birth of immortality,
Then, turtle-like, I'll to my mate repair,
And teach you your first flight in open air.
Tyrannic Love, p. 25.

Page 230, line 7, first col.

"Pal. Lo, from this conquering lance
Does flow the purest wine of France:
And, to appease your hunger, I
Have in my helmet brought a pye:
Lastly, to bear a part with these,
Behold a buckler made of cheese."

See the scene in The Villain, p. 47-53, where the host furnishes his guests with a collation out of his clothes, a capon from his helmet, a tansey out of the lining of his cap, cream out of his scabbard, &c.

Provoke my rage no farther, lest I be
Revenged at once upon the gods and thee.
Ibid, p. 8.
What had the gods to do with me or mine?
Ibid, p. 57.

Ibid, line 26.

"He is too proud a man to creep servilely after sense, I assure you."

Poets, like lovers, should be bold, and dare;
They spoil their business with an over care :
And he who servilely creeps after sense,
Is safe, but ne'er can reach to excellence.
Prologue to Tyrannic Love.

ACT V.

Page 231, line 54, second col.

"K. Ush. But stay, what sound is this invades

our ears?"

What various noises do my ears invade,
And have a concert of confusion made?
Siege of Rhodes, p. 4.

Page 232, line 20, first col.

"1st King. Haste, brother king, we are sent from above.

2d King. Let us move, let us move; Move, to remove the fate

Of Brentford's long united state.

1st King. Tarra, tan, tarra !—full east and by south.

24 King. We sail with thunder in our mouth. In scorching noon-day, whilst the traveller stays, Busy, busy, busy, busy, we bustle along, Mounted upon warm Phoebus's rays, Through the heavenly throng, Hasting to those

Who will feast us at night with a pig's petty toes. 1st King. And we'll fall with our plate In an olio of hate.

2d King. But, now supper's done, the servitors try,

Like soldiers, to storm a whole half-moon pye. 1st King. They gather, they gather hot custards in spoons:

But, alas! I must leave these half-moons,
And repair to my trusty dragoons.

2d King. O! stay, for you need not as yet go
astray;

The tide, like a friend, has brought ships in our

In ridicule of this.

In a jelly of love.

Dam. But now the sun's down, and the element's red,

The spirits of fire against us make head.
Naker. They muster, they muster, like gnats
in the air.

Alas! I must leave thee, my fair,
And to my light-horsemen repair.

Dam. Ŏ! stay, for you need not to fear them to-night;

The wind is for us, and blows full in their sight, And o'er the wide ocean we fight.

Like leaves in the autumn our foes will fall down, And hiss in the water

Both. And hiss in the water, and drown. Naker. But their men lie securely entrench'd in a cloud,

And a trumpeter-hornet to battle sounds loud. Dam. Now mortals, that spy

How we tilt in the sky,

With wonder, will gaze,

And will fear such events as will ne'er come to pass.

Naker. Stay you to perform what the man will

have done.

Dam. Then call me again when the battle is

won.

Both. So ready and quick is a spirit of air
To pity the lover, and succour the fair,
That, silent and swift, that little soft god
Is here with a wish, and gone with a nod.

Tyrannic Love, p. 24, 25.

Page 232, line 17, second col. "Bayes. This, sir, you must know, I thought once to have brought in with a conjuror." See Tyrannic Love, act 4, scene 1. Page 233, line 16, first col.

"What dreadful noise is this that comes and goes? Sol. Haste hence, great sirs, your royal persons

below.

Dam. Let us go, let us go;

Go, to relieve the care
Of longing lovers in despair.

VOL. III.

2d Mess. This minute, if you grant not their dcsire,

They'll seize your person, and your palace fire. Granada, part II p. 71.

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