A collection and selection of English prologues and epilogues [vol 3] [T145232] [ecco]

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1343

Publication Date:

1779

Volume Number:

3 of 4

ESTC number:

T145232

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ECCO - Bod

Full Title:

A | COLLECTION AND SELECTION | OF | ENGLISH | PROLOGUES AND EPILOGUES. | COMMENCING WITH | [i]SHAKESPEARE[/i], | AND CONCLUDING WITH | [i]GARRICK.[/i] | IN FOUR VOLUMES. | VOLUME III. | [epigraph] | [rule] | LONDON: | PRINTED FOR | FIELDING AND WALKER, PATERNOSTER-ROW. | MDCCLXXIX.

Epigraph:

'Tis much desir'd you judges of the town, | Would pass a vote to put all Prologues down; | For who can shew me, since they first were writ, | They e'er converted one hard-hearted wit. | PROL. TO THE RIVAL LADIES.

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London

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Octavo

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Half title: A | COLLECTION AND SELECTION | OF | ENGLISH | PROLOGUES AND EPILOGUES. | [rule] | PROLOGUES. Plates.

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Back matter: Index [6pp.]

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1779

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1779

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Title:

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Publication Date:

1779

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First Line:

Ye sounds that with soft passions souls inspire

Page No:

pp.1-3

Poem Title:

Prologue To The Subscribers For Julius Caesar.

Attribution:

Dennis.

Attributed To:

John Dennis

First Line:

See Britons see before your ravished eyes

Page No:

pp.3-5

Poem Title:

Prologue To Iphigenia.

Attribution:

Dennis.

Attributed To:

John Dennis

First Line:

This of deep tragedies is sure the age

Page No:

pp.6-7

Poem Title:

Prologue To Libery Asserted. Spoken By Mr. Betterton.

Attribution:

Dennis.

Attributed To:

John Dennis

First Line:

Our author's friends appear concerned today

Page No:

pp.7-8

Poem Title:

Prologue To Appius And Virginia.

Attribution:

Dennis.

Attributed To:

John Dennis

First Line:

Pish lord I wish this prologue was but Greek

Page No:

pp.9-10

Poem Title:

Prologue, Spoken By Lord Buckhurst, At Westminster School, At A Representation Of Mr. Dryden's Cleomenes, The Spartan Hero. At Christmas, 1695.

Attribution:

Prior

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

Ladies to you with pleasure we submit

Page No:

pp.11-12

Poem Title:

Prologue For Delia's Play.

Attribution:

Prior

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

Shine forth ye planets with distinguished light

Page No:

pp.12-13

Poem Title:

Prologue, Spoken At Court Before The Queen; On Her Majesty's Birth-Day, 1704.

Attribution:

Prior

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

What would my humble comrades have me say

Page No:

pp.14-15

Poem Title:

Prologue To The Orphan. Spoken By The Lord Duplin, Who Acted Cordelio.

Attribution:

Prior

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

If dying lovers yet deserve a tear

Page No:

pp.15-17

Poem Title:

Prologue To The Ambitious Step-Mother. Spoken By Mr. Betterton.

Attribution:

Rowe.

Attributed To:

Nicholas Rowe

First Line:

Of all the muse's various labours none

Page No:

pp.17-18

Poem Title:

Prologue To Tamerlane.

Attribution:

Rowe.

Attributed To:

Nicholas Rowe

First Line:

Long has the fate of kings and empires been

Page No:

pp.19-20

Poem Title:

Prologue To The Fair Penitent.

Attribution:

Rowe.

Attributed To:

Nicholas Rowe

First Line:

Tonight in honour of the married life

Page No:

pp.20-21

Poem Title:

Prologue To Ulysses.

Attribution:

Rowe.

Attributed To:

Nicholas Rowe

First Line:

Since to your famed forefathers quite contrary

Page No:

pp.22-23

Poem Title:

Prologue To The Royal Convert.

Attribution:

Rowe.

Attributed To:

Nicholas Rowe

First Line:

Tonight if you have brought your good old taste

Page No:

pp.23-25

Poem Title:

Prologue To Jane Shore.

Attribution:

Rowe.

Attributed To:

Nicholas Rowe

First Line:

Tonight the noblest subject swells our scene

Page No:

pp.25-26

Poem Title:

Prologue To Lady Jane Gray.

Attribution:

Rowe.

Attributed To:

Nicholas Rowe

First Line:

When waking terrors rouse the guilty breast

Page No:

pp.26-28

Poem Title:

A Second Prologue To The Same.

Attribution:

Sent By An Unknown Hand.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

If humble wives that drag the marriage chain

Page No:

pp.28-29

Poem Title:

Prologue To The Gamester.

Attribution:

Rowe.

Attributed To:

Nicholas Rowe

First Line:

How hard's the poet's task in these our days

Page No:

pp.29-30

Poem Title:

Prologue To Heroic Love.

Attribution:

Lansdowne.

Attributed To:

George Granville

First Line:

This radiant circle reverend Shakespeare view

Page No:

pp.31-32

Poem Title:

Prologue To The Jew Of Venice.

Attribution:

Lansdowne.

Attributed To:

George Granville

First Line:

Wit bears so thin a crop this duller age

Page No:

pp.33-34

Poem Title:

Prologue To Love's Last Shift.

Attribution:

Cibber.

Attributed To:

Colley Cibber

First Line:

Most authors when their barren labours fail

Page No:

pp.34-35

Poem Title:

Prologue To Woman's Wit.

Attribution:

Cibber.

Attributed To:

Colley Cibber

First Line:

Since plays are but a kind of public feasts

Page No:

pp.35-36

Poem Title:

Prologue To Love Makes A Man.

Attribution:

Cibber.

Attributed To:

Colley Cibber

First Line:

Critics though plays without your smiles subsist

Page No:

pp.37-38

Poem Title:

Prologue To She Wou'd And She Wou'd Not.

Attribution:

Cibber.

Attributed To:

Colley Cibber

First Line:

Of all the various vices of the age

Page No:

pp.39-40

Poem Title:

Prologue To The Careless Husband.

Attribution:

Cibber.

Attributed To:

Colley Cibber

First Line:

From sprightly Fletcher's loose confederate muse

Page No:

pp.40-41

Poem Title:

Prologue To The Rival Fools.

Attribution:

Cibber.

Attributed To:

Colley Cibber

First Line:

Since plays are but the mirrors of our lives

Page No:

pp.42-43

Poem Title:

Prologue To The Lady's Last Stake.

Attribution:

Cibber.

Attributed To:

Colley Cibber

First Line:

Could those who never tried conceive the sweat

Page No:

pp.43-44

Poem Title:

Prologue To The Double Gallant.

Attribution:

Cibber.

Attributed To:

Colley Cibber

First Line:

As oft in formed assemblies of the fair

Page No:

pp.45-46

Poem Title:

Prologue To The Heroic Daughter.

Attribution:

Cibber.

Attributed To:

Colley Cibber

First Line:

Tonight ye whigs and tories both be safe

Page No:

pp.46-48

Poem Title:

Prologue To The Non Juror.

Attribution:

Cibber.

Attributed To:

Colley Cibber

First Line:

Gallants behold before your eyes the wight

Page No:

pp.48-49

Poem Title:

Prologue To The Refusal. Spoken By Mr. Cibber.

Attribution:

Cibber.

Attributed To:

Colley Cibber

First Line:

This play took birth from principles of truth

Page No:

pp.50-51

Poem Title:

Prologue To The Provok'd Husband.

Attribution:

Cibber.

Attributed To:

Colley Cibber

First Line:

Our author of his rural muse afraid

Page No:

pp.51-52

Poem Title:

Prologue To Love In A Riddle.

Attribution:

Cibber.

Attributed To:

Colley Cibber

First Line:

Since Otway's scenes how few have found the art

Page No:

pp.52-53

Poem Title:

Prologue To Perolla And Izadora.

Attribution:

Cibber.

Attributed To:

Colley Cibber

First Line:

When Roman arms their hostile terrors hurled

Page No:

pp.54-55

Poem Title:

Prologue To Caesar In Egypt.

Attribution:

Cibber.

Attributed To:

Colley Cibber

First Line:

Long have we strove with passion and grimace

Page No:

pp.55-57

Poem Title:

Prologue To Xerxes.

Attribution:

Cibber.

Attributed To:

Colley Cibber

First Line:

The hardy wretch that gives the stage a play

Page No:

pp.57-59

Poem Title:

Prologue To King John.

Attribution:

Cibber.

Attributed To:

Colley Cibber

First Line:

Ladies this play in too much haste was writ

Page No:

pp.59-60

Poem Title:

Prologue To The Relapse.

Attribution:

Vanbrugh.

Attributed To:

Sir John Vanbrugh

First Line:

Since tis the intent and business of the stage

Page No:

pp.61-62

Poem Title:

Prologue To The Provok'd Wife.

Attribution:

Vanbrugh.

Attributed To:

Sir John Vanbrugh

First Line:

Ye gods what crime had my poor father done

Page No:

pp.62-63

Poem Title:

Prologue To The Confederacy. Spoken By A Shabby Poet.

Attribution:

Vanbrugh.

Attributed To:

Sir John Vanbrugh

First Line:

Our author's wit and raillery tonight

Page No:

pp.64-65

Poem Title:

Prologue To The Mistake.

Attribution:

Vanbrugh.

Attributed To:

Sir John Vanbrugh

First Line:

Gallants we never yet produced a play

Page No:

pp.65-66

Poem Title:

Prologue To Esop.

Attribution:

Vanbrugh.

Attributed To:

Sir John Vanbrugh

First Line:

You dread reformers of an impious age

Page No:

pp.66-68

Poem Title:

Prologue To The False Friend. Spoken By Capt. Griffin.

Attribution:

Vanbrugh.

Attributed To:

Sir John Vanbrugh

First Line:

In the first rise and infancy of farce

Page No:

pp.68-66[i.e. 69]

Poem Title:

Prologue To The Tender Husband.

Attribution:

Addison.

Attributed To:

Joseph Addison

First Line:

Most authors on the stage at first appear

Page No:

pp.70-71

Poem Title:

Congreve. Prologue Intended For The Old Batchelor.

Attribution:

Congreve.

Attributed To:

William Congreve

First Line:

How this vile world is changed in former days

Page No:

pp.71-72

Poem Title:

Prologue To Mr. Congreve's Old Batchelor.

Attribution:

Congreve.

Attributed To:

William Congreve

First Line:

Moors have this way as story tells to know

Page No:

pp.72-73

Poem Title:

Prologue To The Double Dealer.

Attribution:

Congreve.

Attributed To:

William Congreve

First Line:

The husbandman in vain renews his toil

Page No:

pp.74-75

Poem Title:

Prologue To Love For Love. Spoken At The Opening Of The New House.

Attribution:

Congreve.

Attributed To:

William Congreve

First Line:

The time has been when plays were not so plenty

Page No:

pp.76-77

Poem Title:

Prologue To The Mourning Bride.

Attribution:

Congreve.

Attributed To:

William Congreve

First Line:

Of those few fools who with ill stars are cursed

Page No:

pp.78-79

Poem Title:

Prologue To The Way Of The World.

Attribution:

Congreve.

Attributed To:

William Congreve

First Line:

By this repeated act of grace we see

Page No:

pp.79-80

Poem Title:

Prologue To The Old Batchelor, Upon Queen Mary's Coming To See That Comedy, After Having Seen The Double Dealer.

Attribution:

Congreve.

Attributed To:

William Congreve

First Line:

Our age has much improved the warrior's art

Page No:

pp.81-82

Poem Title:

Prologue To Pyrrus King Of Epirus.

Attribution:

Congreve.

Attributed To:

William Congreve

First Line:

This year has been remarkable two ways

Page No:

pp.82-84

Poem Title:

Prologue To The Husband His Own Cuckold, A Comedy By Mr. J. Dryden, Jun.

Attribution:

Congreve.

Attributed To:

William Congreve

First Line:

The happy muse to this high scene preferred

Page No:

pp.84-85

Poem Title:

Prologue To The Court On The Queen's Birth-day, 1704.

Attribution:

Congreve.

Attributed To:

William Congreve

First Line:

Now all the world's taken up with state affairs

Page No:

pp.86-87

Poem Title:

Prologue, On The Proposed Union Of The Two Houses.

Attribution:

Farquar.

Attributed To:

George Farquhar

First Line:

As stubborn atheists who disdain to pray

Page No:

pp.88-89

Poem Title:

Prologue To Love And A Bottle. Spoken By Mr. Powell.

Attribution:

Farquar.

Attributed To:

George Farquhar

First Line:

Poets will think nothing so checks their fury

Page No:

pp.89-90

Poem Title:

Prologue To The Constant Couple.

Attribution:

Farquar.

Attributed To:

George Farquhar

First Line:

Our authors have in most their late essays

Page No:

pp.91-92

Poem Title:

Prologue To Sir Harry Wildair.

Attribution:

Farquar.

Attributed To:

George Farquhar

First Line:

Like hungry guests a sitting audience looks

Page No:

pp.92-93

Poem Title:

Prologue To The Inconstant.

Attribution:

Farquar.

Attributed To:

George Farquhar

First Line:

With drums and trumpets in this warring age

Page No:

pp.94-95

Poem Title:

Prologue To The Twin Rivals.

Attribution:

Farquar.

Attributed To:

George Farquhar

First Line:

In ancient times when Helen's fatal charms

Page No:

pp.95-96

Poem Title:

Prologue To The Recruiting Officer.

Attribution:

Farquar.

Attributed To:

George Farquhar

First Line:

When strife disturbs or sloth corrupts an age

Page No:

p.97

Poem Title:

Prologue To The Beaux Stratagem.

Attribution:

Farquar.

Attributed To:

George Farquhar

First Line:

I wish some author careless of renown

Page No:

p.98

Poem Title:

Prologue To The Captives.

Attribution:

Gay.

Attributed To:

John Gay

First Line:

I wonder not our author doubts success

Page No:

p.99

Poem Title:

Prologue To Achilles.

Attribution:

Gay.

Attributed To:

John Gay

First Line:

Such dreadful laws of late gainst wit are made

Page No:

p.100

Poem Title:

Prologue To The Perjur'd Husband.

Attribution:

Centlivre.

Attributed To:

Susanna Centlivre

First Line:

What hazards poets run in times like these

Page No:

pp.101-102

Poem Title:

Prologue To The Beau's Duel.

Attribution:

Centlivre.

Attributed To:

Susanna Centlivre

First Line:

Our author fears the critics of the stage

Page No:

pp.102-103

Poem Title:

Prologue To The Wonder.

Attribution:

Centlivre.

Attributed To:

Susanna Centlivre

First Line:

In all the faces that to plays resort

Page No:

pp.103-104

Poem Title:

Prologue To The Basset Table. Spoken By Mr. Pinkethman.

Attribution:

Centlivre.

Attributed To:

Susanna Centlivre

First Line:

Lest any here should blame our author's toil

Page No:

pp.104-105

Poem Title:

Prologue To Love At A Venture.

Attribution:

Centlivre.

Attributed To:

Susanna Centlivre

First Line:

Our author fearing his success today

Page No:

p.106

Poem Title:

Prologue To The Stolen Heiress.

Attribution:

Centlivre.

Attributed To:

Susanna Centlivre

First Line:

Poets like mushrooms rise and fall of late

Page No:

pp.107-108

Poem Title:

Prologue To Love's Contrivance.

Attribution:

Centlivre.

Attributed To:

Susanna Centlivre

First Line:

Though modern prophets were exposed of late

Page No:

pp.108-109

Poem Title:

Prologue To The Busy Body.

Attribution:

Centlivre.

Attributed To:

Susanna Centlivre

First Line:

To entertain this bustling busy age

Page No:

p.111

Poem Title:

Prologue To The Perplex'd Lovers.

Attribution:

Centlivre.

Attributed To:

Susanna Centlivre

First Line:

This play I wonder how the thing could hold

Page No:

pp.112-113

Poem Title:

Prologue To The Cruel Gift.

Attribution:

Centlivre.

Attributed To:

Susanna Centlivre

First Line:

Our female author trembling stands within

Page No:

pp.113-114

Poem Title:

Prologue To The Man's Bewitched.

Attribution:

Centlivre.

Attributed To:

Susanna Centlivre

First Line:

Tonight we come upon a bold design

Page No:

pp.115-116

Poem Title:

Prologue To A Bold Stroke For A Wife.

Attribution:

Centlivre.

Attributed To:

Susanna Centlivre

First Line:

Our wits of late grown wondrous weather wise

Page No:

pp.116-117

Poem Title:

Prologue To The Artifice.

Attribution:

Centlivre.

Attributed To:

Susanna Centlivre

First Line:

To wake the soul by tender strokes of art

Page No:

pp.118-119

Poem Title:

Prologue To Cato.

Attribution:

Pope.

Attributed To:

Alexander Pope

First Line:

When learning's triumph over her barbarous foes

Page No:

pp.120-122

Poem Title:

Prologue...Spoken By Mr. Garrick, At The Opening Of The Theatre In Drury-Lane, 1747.

Attribution:

Written By Mr. Samuel Johnson.

Attributed To:

Samuel Johnson

First Line:

Well I've been beating up for volunteers

Page No:

pp.122-124

Poem Title:

Prologue To Comus. Performed For The Benefit Of The General Hospital At Bath, 1756, And Spoken By Miss Morrison In The Character Of A Lady Of Fashion.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

In youth when modesty and merit meet

Page No:

pp.124-125

Poem Title:

Prologue To Eurydice.

Attribution:

Written By Aaron Hill, Esq.

Attributed To:

Aaron Hill

First Line:

With grateful hearts for this auspicious day

Page No:

pp.125-126

Poem Title:

Prologue To Volpone. Acted By The Young Gentlemen Of Bury-School, November 5, 1734, In The New Theatre There.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Those public writers whose diurnal page

Page No:

pp.127-128

Poem Title:

Prologue To The Pseudolus Of Plautus. Acted By The Scholars Of Bury-School, November 6, 1734.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Studious to please but with a conscious fear

Page No:

pp.128-129

Poem Title:

Prologue To The Spanish Fryar

Attribution:

Written By Mr. Cooke, And Spoken On Opening The New Theatre In The Hay-Market.

Attributed To:

Thomas Cooke

First Line:

If eyes which from a pious sorrow flow

Page No:

pp.129-130

Poem Title:

Prologue To Penelope. Performed In The Year 1728.

Attribution:

By The Same [i.e. Cooke]

Attributed To:

Thomas Cooke

First Line:

As ancient Greece and Rome their conquests spread

Page No:

pp.130-131

Poem Title:

Prologue...Spoken By Mr. Henry Giffard, On Opening The New Theatre In Goodman's Fields, October 31, 1729.

Attribution:

By The Same [i.e. Cooke]

Attributed To:

Thomas Cooke

First Line:

As routed squadrons quit the hostile field

Page No:

pp.132-133

Poem Title:

Prologue To Love And Revenge; Or, The Vintner Outwitted. A Ballad Opera, Performed In The Year 1729.

Attribution:

By The Same [i.e. Cooke]

Attributed To:

Thomas Cooke

First Line:

In ancient Greece the comic muse appeared

Page No:

pp.133-134

Poem Title:

Prologue To The Devil To Pay. A Ballad-Opera

Attribution:

By The Same [i.e. Cooke]

Attributed To:

Thomas Cooke

First Line:

Censure detraction and the critic's rage

Page No:

pp.134-135

Poem Title:

Prologue To The Country Wife.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Our steadfast bard to his own genius true

Page No:

pp.135-136

Poem Title:

Prologue To Comus. Written In The Year 1738.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

When breathing statues mouldering waste away

Page No:

pp.137-138

Poem Title:

Prologue To Mariamne.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Long used in Grecian scenes to form the age

Page No:

pp.139-140

Poem Title:

Prologue To Ignoramus, Acted At Westminster School, In December, 1747.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Unpracticed in the drama's artful page

Page No:

pp.140-141

Poem Title:

Prologue To The Foundling.

Attribution:

Written By Mr. Brooke.

Attributed To:

Henry Brooke

First Line:

I come not here your candour to implore

Page No:

pp.142-143

Poem Title:

Prologue To Coriolanus

Attribution:

Written By Mr. Thomson.

Attributed To:

James Thomson

First Line:

To speak with freedom dignity and ease

Page No:

pp.145-146

Poem Title:

Prologue. Spoken By His Royal Highness Prince George, On Performing The Tragedy Of Cato, At Leicester House, 1749.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Touched be your generous hearts to spare this play

Page No:

pp.145-146

Poem Title:

Prologue To Merope. Spoken By Mr. Garrick.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

The sons of genius search through every age

Page No:

pp.147-148

Poem Title:

Prologue To Edward The Black Prince; Or, The Battle Of Poictiers.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Britons tonight in native pomp we come

Page No:

pp.148-149

Poem Title:

Prologue To The Roman Father.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

When vice or folly overruns a state

Page No:

pp.150-151

Poem Title:

Occasional Prologue, Spoken At Covent-Garden Theatre, By Mr. Barry.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Are you all ready here's your music here

Page No:

pp.151-152

Poem Title:

Prologue To Gil Blas. Spoken By Mr. Woodward, In The Character of A Critic, With A Cat-Call In His Hand

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

The tragic muse revolving many a page

Page No:

pp.153-154

Poem Title:

Prologue To The Brothers.

Attribution:

Written By Mr. Dodsley.

Attributed To:

Robert Dodsley

First Line:

No Garrick here majestic treads the stage

Page No:

pp.154-155

Poem Title:

Prologue To Cato. Acted In 1753, By The Scholars Of The Free Grammar School At Derby, For The Benefit Of The Orphan Of The Late Usher.

Attribution:

Written By One Of The Scholars, Aged 16.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Our desperate bard a bold excursion tries

Page No:

pp.156-157

Poem Title:

Prologue To The Earl Of Essex.

Attribution:

Written By Mr. Henry Jones.

Attributed To:

Henry Jones

First Line:

Beside his native Thames our poet long

Page No:

pp.157-158

Poem Title:

Prologue To Boadicia.

Attribution:

Written By Mr. Glover.

Attributed To:

Richard Glover

First Line:

All nature's order rises on extremes

Page No:

pp.159-160

Poem Title:

Occasional Prologue To The Conscious Lovers...Performed For The Benefit Of The Middlesex Hospital.

Attribution:

Written By Mr. Boyce.

Attributed To:

Samuel Boyce

First Line:

Of all the passions that possess mankind

Page No:

pp.161-162

Poem Title:

Prologue To The Englishman Return'd From Paris, A Farce.

Attribution:

Foote.

Attributed To:

Samuel Foote

First Line:

Tonight be it known to box galleries and pit

Page No:

pp.162-163

Poem Title:

Prologue To All In The Wrong. Spoken By Mr. Foote.

Attribution:

Foote.

Attributed To:

Samuel Foote

First Line:

Hush let me search before I speak aloud

Page No:

pp.164-165

Poem Title:

Mr. Foote's Address To The Public, After A Prosecution Against Him For A Libel.

Attribution:

Foote.

Attributed To:

Samuel Foote

First Line:

What various revolutions in our art

Page No:

pp.166-167

Poem Title:

Prologue To The Lyar.

Attribution:

Foote.

Attributed To:

Samuel Foote

First Line:

Near the mad mansions of Moorfields I'll bawl

Page No:

pp.167-168

Poem Title:

Mr. Foote In The Character Of Doctor Squintum.

Attribution:

Foote.

Attributed To:

Samuel Foote

First Line:

For wit's keen satire and this laughing stage

Page No:

pp.169-170

Poem Title:

Prologue To The Bankrupt. Spoken By Mr. Foote.

Attribution:

Foote.

Attributed To:

Samuel Foote

First Line:

This night we add some heroes to our store

Page No:

pp.170-171

Poem Title:

Prologue To The Taylors. Spoken By Mr. Foote.

Attribution:

Foote.

Attributed To:

Samuel Foote

First Line:

In former times there lived one Aristotle

Page No:

pp.172-174

Poem Title:

The Trip To Paris. Spoken By Mr. Shuter, At One Of His Benefits.

Attribution:

Foote.

Attributed To:

Samuel Foote

First Line:

Happy my muse had she first turned her art

Page No:

pp.174-175

Poem Title:

Prologue To The Knights. Spoken By Mr. Foote.

Attribution:

Foote.

Attributed To:

Samuel Foote

First Line:

Severe their task who in this critic age

Page No:

pp.176-177

Poem Title:

Prologue To The Author.

Attribution:

Foote.

Attributed To:

Samuel Foote

First Line:

Upwards of twenty years are fled and wasted

Page No:

pp.178-179

Poem Title:

Prologue, Spoken By Mr. Foote, On The First Night Of His Performing In Dublin, In The Year 1773.

Attribution:

Foote.

Attributed To:

Samuel Foote

First Line:

From fiddling fretting monsieur and signior

Page No:

pp.180-181

Poem Title:

Prologue, Spoken By Mr. Yates, On Opening A New Theatre, Built For Him By The Inhabitants Of Birmingham.

Attribution:

Foote.

Attributed To:

Samuel Foote

First Line:

In trifling works of fancy wits agree

Page No:

pp.181-182

Poem Title:

Prologue To The Cozeners. Spoken By Mr. Foote.

Attribution:

Foote.

Attributed To:

Samuel Foote

First Line:

The contract is it called I cannot say

Page No:

pp.183-184

Poem Title:

Prologue To The Contract. Intended To Have Been Spoken By Mr. Foote.

Attribution:

Foote.

Attributed To:

Samuel Foote

First Line:

While modern tragedy by rule exact

Page No:

pp.184-186

Poem Title:

Prologue To Philaster. Altered From Beaumont And Fletcher.

Attribution:

Colman.

Attributed To:

George Colman

First Line:

By your leave critics to a female play

Page No:

pp.186-187

Poem Title:

Prologue To A Wife In The Right.

Attribution:

Colman.

Attributed To:

George Colman

First Line:

Wherever commerce spreads the swelling sail

Page No:

pp.188-189

Poem Title:

Prologue, On The Opening Of The New Theatre-Royal At Liverpool, On Friday, June 5, 1772.

Attribution:

Colman.

Attributed To:

George Colman

First Line:

The law of custom is the law of fools

Page No:

pp.189-190

Poem Title:

Prologue To The Sister. Spoken By Mrs. Mattocks.

Attribution:

Colman.

Attributed To:

George Colman

First Line:

Fresh from the schools behold an Oxford smart

Page No:

pp.191-192

Poem Title:

Prologue To The Oxonian In Town.

Attribution:

Colman.

Attributed To:

George Colman

First Line:

Severe each poet's lot but sure most hard

Page No:

pp.193-194

Poem Title:

Prologue To The Earl Of Warwick.

Attribution:

Colman.

Attributed To:

George Colman

First Line:

Let us ere yet we finish our career

Page No:

pp.194-195

Poem Title:

Prologue, Spoken By Mr. Powell, At The Closing Of The Theatre-Royal In Covent-Garden, On Saturday, June 4, Being The Anniversary Of His Majesty's Birth-Day.

Attribution:

Colman.

Attributed To:

George Colman

First Line:

When frighted poets give the town a play

Page No:

pp.195-196

Poem Title:

Occasional Prologue, Spoken By Mr. Powell, On The Appearance Of A New Juliet At The Theatre-Royal, Covent Garden.

Attribution:

Colman.

Attributed To:

George Colman

First Line:

In these our moral and religious days

Page No:

pp.197-198

Poem Title:

Prologue To Clementina.

Attribution:

Colman.

Attributed To:

George Colman

First Line:

From Stratford arrived piping hot gentlefolks

Page No:

pp.198-200

Poem Title:

Scrub's Trip To The Jubilee. Spoken By Mr. Weston.

Attribution:

Colman.

Attributed To:

George Colman

First Line:

Fashion in every thing bears sovereign sway

Page No:

pp.200-202

Poem Title:

Prologue To Bon Ton.

Attribution:

Colman.

Attributed To:

George Colman

First Line:

Happy the soaring bard who boldly woos

Page No:

pp.203-204

Poem Title:

Prologue To Epicoene; Or, The Silent Woman.

Attribution:

Colman.

Attributed To:

George Colman

First Line:

Critics whenever I write in every scene

Page No:

pp.204-206

Poem Title:

Prologue To The Capuchin. Spoken By Mr. Foote.

Attribution:

Colman.

Attributed To:

George Colman

First Line:

Pride by a thousand arts vain honours claims

Page No:

pp.207-208

Poem Title:

Prologue, Spoken By Mr. Palmer, On The Opening Of The Theatre-Royal In The Hay-Market, May 15, 1777.

Attribution:

Colman.

Attributed To:

George Colman

First Line:

Once more from Ludgate hill behold Paul Prig

Page No:

pp.209-210

Poem Title:

Prologue To The Spanish Barber. Spoken By Mr. Parsons.

Attribution:

Colman.

Attributed To:

George Colman

First Line:

In classic times as learned authors say

Page No:

pp.210-212

Poem Title:

Prologue To Sethona.

Attribution:

Cumberland.

Attributed To:

Richard Cumberland

First Line:

Ere dark November with his dripping wings

Page No:

pp.212-213

Poem Title:

Prologue To The Princess Of Parma.

Attribution:

Cumberland.

Attributed To:

Richard Cumberland

First Line:

To Holy Land in superstition's day

Page No:

pp.214-215

Poem Title:

Prologue To The Battle Of Hastings.

Attribution:

Cumberland.

Attributed To:

Richard Cumberland

First Line:

Critics your favour is our author's right

Page No:

pp.215-216

Poem Title:

Prologue, At The Revival Of Every Man In His Humour.

Attribution:

Garrick.

Attributed To:

David Garrick

First Line:

Before this court I Peter Puff appear

Page No:

pp.217-218

Poem Title:

Prologue To Taste. Spoken By Mr. Garrick, In The Character Of An Auctioneer.

Attribution:

Garrick.

Attributed To:

David Garrick

First Line:

To damn or not that is the question now

Page No:

pp.219-220

Poem Title:

Prologue To Eugenia. Spoken By Mr. Garrick.

Attribution:

Garrick.

Attributed To:

David Garrick

First Line:

Prologues like compliments are loss of time

Page No:

pp.220-222

Poem Title:

Prologue To Virginia. Spoken By Mr. Garrick.

Attribution:

Garrick.

Attributed To:

David Garrick

First Line:

Well if thou art my boy a little mellow

Page No:

pp.222-224

Poem Title:

Occasional Prologue To The Mask Of Britannia. Spoken By Mr. Garrick, In The Character Of A Sailor, Fuddled, And Talking To Himself. Enters, singing, "How pleasant a sailor's life passes!"

Attribution:

Garrick.

Attributed To:

David Garrick

First Line:

Behold a wonder for theatric story

Page No:

pp.224-225

Poem Title:

Prologue To The Apprentice. Spoken By Mr. Murphy, Author Of The Piece, Dressed In Black.

Attribution:

Garrick.

Attributed To:

David Garrick

First Line:

Ye patriot crowds who burn for England's fame

Page No:

pp.226-227

Poem Title:

Prologue To Comus.

Attribution:

Garrick.

Attributed To:

David Garrick

First Line:

As heroes states and kingdoms rise and fall

Page No:

pp.227-229

Poem Title:

Occasional Prologue, Spoken By Mr. Garrick, At The Opening Of Drury-Lane Theatre, September 5, 1750.

Attribution:

Garrick.

Attributed To:

David Garrick

First Line:

Like famed La Mancha's knight who lance in hand

Page No:

pp.229-230

Poem Title:

Prologue To The Gamester.

Attribution:

Garrick.

Attributed To:

David Garrick

First Line:

Measter measter | Is not my measter here among you pray

Page No:

pp.231-233

Poem Title:

Prologue To Barbarossa. Spoken By Mr. Garrick, In The Character Of A Country Boy.

Attribution:

Garrick.

Attributed To:

David Garrick

First Line:

A moment stop your tuneful fingers pray

Page No:

pp.233-235

Poem Title:

Prologue To The Fairies. Spoken By Mr. Garrick.

Attribution:

Garrick.

Attributed To:

David Garrick

First Line:

To various things the stage has been compared

Page No:

pp.235-237

Poem Title:

Prologue To The Winter's Tale; And, Catherine And Petruchio. Spoken By Mr. Garrick.

Attribution:

Garrick.

Attributed To:

David Garrick

First Line:

Whenever the wits of France take pen in hand

Page No:

pp.237-239

Poem Title:

Occasional Prologue To The Gamesters.

Attribution:

Garrick.

Attributed To:

David Garrick

First Line:

Success makes people vain the maxim's true

Page No:

pp.239-240

Poem Title:

Prologue To The School For Lovers. Spoken By Mr. Garrick.

Attribution:

Garrick.

Attributed To:

David Garrick

First Line:

A female culprit at your bar appears

Page No:

pp.241-242

Poem Title:

Prologue To The Discovery.

Attribution:

Garrick.

Attributed To:

David Garrick

First Line:

The ship now launched with necessaries stored

Page No:

pp.242-244

Poem Title:

Prologue, Spoken By Mr Love, On The Opening The New Theatre In Richmond-Green, 1765.

Attribution:

Garrick.

Attributed To:

David Garrick

First Line:

With doubt joy apprehension almost dumb

Page No:

pp.244-245

Poem Title:

Prologue To Much Ado About Nothing. Acted By Command Of Their Majesties, 1765. Spoken By Mr. Garrick.

Attribution:

Garrick.

Attributed To:

David Garrick

First Line:

Bold is the man and compos mentis scarce

Page No:

pp.246-247

Poem Title:

Prologue To A Peep Behind The Curtain.

Attribution:

Garrick.

Attributed To:

David Garrick

First Line:

I'm vexed quite vexed and you'll be vexed that's worse

Page No:

pp.247-248

Poem Title:

Prologue To False Delicacy. Spoken By Mr. King.

Attribution:

Garrick.

Attributed To:

David Garrick

First Line:

The scribbling gentry ever frank and free

Page No:

pp.249-250

Poem Title:

Prologue To The School For Rakes. Spoken By Mr. King.

Attribution:

Garrick.

Attributed To:

David Garrick

First Line:

Your servants kind masters from bottom to top

Page No:

pp.251-252

Poem Title:

Prologue To Doctor Last In His Chariot. Spoken By Mr. Foote.

Attribution:

Garrick.

Attributed To:

David Garrick

First Line:

Poets and painters who from nature draw

Page No:

pp.253-254

Poem Title:

Prologue To The Clandestine Marriage.

Attribution:

Garrick.

Attributed To:

David Garrick

First Line:

An old trite proverb let me quote

Page No:

pp.254-256

Poem Title:

Prologue Upon Prologues. Spoken By Mr. King.

Attribution:

Garrick.

Attributed To:

David Garrick

First Line:

From London your honours to Stratford I'm come

Page No:

pp.256-257

Poem Title:

Prologue To The Jubilee. Spoken In The Character Of a Waiter.

Attribution:

Garrick.

Attributed To:

David Garrick

First Line:

Excuse me sirs I pray I can't yet speak

Page No:

pp.258-259

Poem Title:

Prologue To She Stoops To Conquer. Spoken By Mr. Woodward, Dressed In Deep Mourning.

Attribution:

Garrick.

Attributed To:

David Garrick

First Line:

Hither in days of yore from Spain or France

Page No:

pp.260-261

Poem Title:

Prologue To Polly Honeycombe.

Attribution:

Garrick.

Attributed To:

David Garrick

First Line:

Go on prepare my bounty for my friends

Page No:

pp.262-263

Poem Title:

Prologue To The Christmas Tale.

Attribution:

Garrick.

Attributed To:

David Garrick

First Line:

In Macedon when Alexander reigned

Page No:

pp.264-265

Poem Title:

Occasional Prologue, Upon Mr. Lacy's First Appearance In The Character Of Alexander.

Attribution:

Garrick.

Attributed To:

David Garrick

First Line:

Though prologues now as blackberries are plenty

Page No:

pp.267-269

Poem Title:

Prologue To The Spleen; Or, Islington Spa. Spoken By Mr. King.

Attribution:

Garrick.

Attributed To:

David Garrick

First Line:

A veteran see whose last act on the stage

Page No:

pp.269-270

Poem Title:

Occasional Prologue, Spoken By Mr. Garrick, The Last Time Of His Performing For The Benefit Of The Theatrical Fund.

Attribution:

Garrick.

Attributed To:

David Garrick

First Line:

Scribblers are sportsmen and as sportsmen are

Page No:

pp.271-272

Poem Title:

Prologue, Introduced In The Prelude Of New Brooms. Spoken By Mr. King, At The Opening Of Drury Lane Theatre, 1776.

Attribution:

Garrick.

Attributed To:

David Garrick

First Line:

With every hope a vessel sails away

Page No:

pp.273-274

Poem Title:

Address To The Public: Spoken By Mrs. Barry, The First Time She Appeared On The Stage After The Death Of Her Husband, And Before The Tragedy Of Douglas.

Attribution:

Garrick.

Attributed To:

David Garrick

First Line:

A school for scandal tell me I beseech you

Page No:

pp.274-275

Poem Title:

Prologue To The School For Scandal.

Attribution:

Garrick.

Attributed To:

David Garrick

First Line:

Though I'm a female and the rule is ever

Page No:

pp.276-277

Poem Title:

Prologue To Percy. Spoken By Mrs. Bulkley.

Attribution:

Garrick.

Attributed To:

David Garrick

First Line:

To modern Britons let the old appear

Page No:

pp.278-279

Poem Title:

Prologue To Bonduca.

Attribution:

Garrick.

Attributed To:

David Garrick

First Line:

When from the world departs a son of fame

Page No:

pp.279-281

Poem Title:

Prologue To The Fathers.

Attribution:

Garrick.

Attributed To:

David Garrick