to the polite assembly I have already mentioned, pre cisely as follows; except that he pronounced it in a way so remote from its orthography, that I could not but wonder by what singular artifice he had contrived to falsify all the terminating syllables of the language.Imprimis-Hamlet's inky cloak-quite new, never indeed worn. ま N. B. None of the sable professions need apply; as the said inky cloak is green lined with red, the same having been bought of a slopseller at Elsineur, upon Hamlet's being shipwrecked coming from England. Item-Cardinal Wolsey's handkerchief--curiously laced in the old English custome. Item-Othello's do. for Cassio to wipe his beard with. All the strawberries as much raised from the ground as those Richard sends for from the Bishop of Ely's garden in Holborn. Item-Iago's do.-folded so snugly as to lie in the smallest possible compass of the inexpressible Canary pantaloons-besides, I have given up the part to Cooke, who plays it like a villain-Now that's villainous ! Item-Six easy chairs for Q. Catherine in the restless scene. The cushions have always tumbled about so in the Queen's slumber, that the swimming Jewess waked Her Majesty one night with laughing. Item-A royal cap and feathers-for Macbeth to strut and fret his hour in-so tall-in short, as Hamlet says, a forest of feathers-that a mad fellow called the thing a shuttlecock from Brobdignag. Item-My beard in King Lear-Curse that same goat's beard! The first night the audience supposed half the curse stuck in my throat, because I could not get it out; I mean the beard. Thus I gave it! That she may curse her crime too late, and feel How sharper-cuk!-uk!-uk! Item ON A LATE EXHIBITION. 311 Item-A great bell of a ton weight, for Lady Macbeth's dressing-room, for the Queen to ring two upon. Singularly recommended by the following passage of the Poet: Go, bid thy mistress, when my drink is ready, Item-A basket-hilted sword, to be used in the dagger scene-adopted in pursuance of Shakspeare's plain direction: I see thee yet (the dagger) in form as palpable As this which now I draw. Item-Twenty reports, or more, to throw at the prompter's head, in the same character: hinted at only by the great man Bring me no more reports, let them fly all that is, as I understand it, not the Thanes, but the said reports. Item-All the prompter's books of the playhouse— rendered offensive by the usual marks of entrance upon the stage-Enter O. P. N. B.-As I never will enter O. P. again, that is, opposite to the prompter-I have put the prompter opposite in other words, altered his station at the Theatre he is right on the left side. Here my ears were assailed with a din so alarming, that I awoke, and consequently conclude O. P. ON A LATE EXHIBITION IN THE PIT OF COVENT GARDEN THEATRE. TW [From the Public Ledger, Nov. 16.] WO Cockneys took their night-caps to the play, Had Kemble acted, and O. P. been quiet, They might have slept, and 'scap'd the charge of riot. O. P. Q. IN A CORNER. Á FABLE. A FABLE. (WRITTEN IN THE STYLE OF GAY.)" WHEN men, advanc'd to high estate, Forget the means by which they rose, Though ranks of opposition rail, He said-and, with prophetic sigh, -Of place and power now possess'd, Bought certain seats, and others sold, In In THE RETORT COURTEOUS. In cases of small enterprise A victim to its vigour falls. THE RETORT COURTEOUS: [From the same, Nov. 18.] ALL as the steeple of the town, TAL From which his title's ta'en, Lord Salisbury, of high renown, At the box door stood young Wagstaffe, A wit devoid of grace; He wanted but to gain a laugh, And Sarum's Peer a place. The Earl mistook the graceless cur, "Pray, friend, are you the Box-keeper?" VOL. XIII. P 313 FROM FROM THE MORNING CHRONICLE. FOR [Nov. 18.] "Quem virum aut heroa, lyrâ vel acri OR whom shall Oxford's hallow'd quire Shall Eldon, now, for once, control Shall he each sordid, selfish mind We look for in our Chancellor? Shall Beaufort, polish'd, generous, gay, Could plead-o'er Oxford's tow'ring spires But |