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LUCIUS JUNIUS.-Morone-coloured shirt, black velvet belt Besh dress complete, and black sandals; 2nd dress-crimson shirt, Roman cuirass, and lambarakins of silver leather, helmet, and red sandals; 3rd dress-cream-coloured toga, white shirt, and black sandals.

TITUS.-White shirt, scarlet mantle trimmed with black velvet, flesh dress complete, black sandals, and white ribbon for the head. SEXTUS TARQUIN.-Roman cuirass and lambarakins of gold, helmet, white shirt, red sandals, flesh dress complete, and scarlet mantle.

ARUNS.-Buff and silver Roman cuirass, white shirt, red sandals, scarlet mantle, and flesh dress complete.

CLAUDIUS.-Blue and silver Roman cuirass, white shirt, flesh dress complete, red sandals, and scarlet mantle.

COLLATINUS.-Roman scarlet and buff cuirass and lambarakins, red sandals, crimson mantle, and flesh dress complete ; 2nd dress-toga, cream-coloured.

VALERIUS.-White shirt, cream-coloured toga, russet sandals, and flesh dress complete.

LUCRETIUS.-Ibid.

HORATIUS.-White shirt, crimson mantle, russet sandals, and flesh dress complete.

CELIUS.-Brown shirt, sandals, and flesh dress complete.

FLAVIUS CORUNNA,-Green shirt, Roman cuirass, sandals, and flesh dress complete.

CENTURION.-Blue and scarlet cuirass and lambarakins, one scarlet shoulder-piece, russet sandals, and flesh dress complete. MESSENGER.-Ibid.

1st ROMAN.-Brown shirt and cap, sandals, and flesh dress complete.

2nd ROMAN.-Ibid.

3rd ROMAN.-Ibid.

TULLIA.-White train dress, scarlet toga, and gold tiara, tied with long white ribbon.

TARQUINIA.-White train dress, puce-coloured toga, and gold tiara, tied with long white ribbon.

LU RETIA.-White train dress, white toga, and white satin tiara, tied with long white ribbon.

PRIESTESS of RHEA'S TEMPLE.-All white.

VESTAL.-White train dress, white chimesette bodies, and white ribbon through the hair.

LAVINIA.-White train dress trimmed with blue, blue toga, and white ribbon through the hair

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WRITTEN BY A FRIEND, SPOKEN BY MR. H. KEMBLE

TIME rushes o'er us; thick as evening clouds Ages roll back :--what calls them from their shrouds ? What in full vision brings their good and great, The men whose virtue make the nation's fate, The far, forgotten stars of human kind? The STAGE,-the mighty telescope of mind! If later, luckless arts that stage profane, The actor pleads not guilty of the stain,He, but the shadow flung on fashion's tideYours, the high will that all its waves must guide: Your voice alone the great reform secures, His, but the passing hour-the age is yours,

Our pledge is kept. Here, yet, no chargers wheel, No foreign slaves on ropes or scaffolds reel, No Gallic amazons, half naked, climb

From pit to gallery,-the low sublime!

In Shakspeare's halls, shall dogs and bears engage?
Where brutes are actors, be a booth the stage!
And we shall triumph yet. The cloud has hung
Darkly above-but day shall spring-has sprung-
The tempest has but swept, not shook the shrine;
No lamp that genius lit has ceased to shine!
Still lives its sanctity. Around the spot
Hover high spirits-shapes of burning thought—
Viewless-but call them, on the dazzled eye
Descends their pomp of immortality:

Here, at your voice, Rowe, Otway, Southern come,
Flashing like meteors through the age's gloom
Perpetual here-king of th' immortal band,

Sits SHAKSPEARE crown'd. He lifts the golden wand,
And all obey ;-the visions of the past

Rise as they lived,-soft, splendid, regal, vast.
Then Ariel harps along the enchanted wave,
Then the weird sisters thunder in their cave.-
The spell is wound. Then shows his mightier art,
The Moor's lost soul; the hell of Richard's heart,

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CUMBERLAND'S

BRITISH THEATRE,

WITH

Remarks, Biographical and Critical.

PRINTED FROM THE ACTING COPIES,

AS PERFORMED AT THE

THEATRES-ROYAL, LONDON.

VOL. XI.

BRUTUS:

ALI PACHA.

TWELFTH NIGHT.

HENRY THE FIFTH.

LOVE IN HUMBLE LIFE.

CHILD OF NATURE.

THE SLEEP WALKER.

EMBELLISHED WITH A PORTRAIT OF MR. KEAN;

AND SEVEN ORIGINAL WOOD ENGRAVINGS.

LONDON:

JOHN CUMBERLAND, 19, LUDGATE HILL.

1826.

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