A collection and selection of English prologues and epilogues [vol 4] [T145232] [ecco]

DMI number:

1423

Publication Date:

1779

Volume Number:

4 of 4

ESTC number:

T145232

EEBO/ECCO link:

CW113373564

Shelfmark:

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 IV. | [epigraph] | [rule] | LONDON: | PRINTED FOR | FIELDING AND WALKER, PATERNOSTER-ROW. | MDCCLXXIX.

Epigraph:

Why there should be an Epilogue to a Play, | I know no cause. The old and usual way, | Why they were made, was to intreat the grace, | Of such as were spectators. - | EPIL. TO THE CUSTOM OF THE COUNTRY.

Place of Publication:

London

Format:

Octavo

Bibliographic details:

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

Comments:

Contents: prose pp. 9-11.

Other matter:

Back matter: Index [5pp.]; Catalogue of books printed for Fielding and Walker [4pp.]

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Title:

A collection and selection of english prologues and epilogues [vol 1] [T145232] [ecco]

Publication Date:

1779

ESTC No:

T145232

Volume:

1 of 4

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Volume from the same edition

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Title:

A collection and selection of English prologues and epilogues [vol 2] [T145232] [ecco]

Publication Date:

1779

ESTC No:

T145232

Volume:

2 of 4

Relationship:

Volume from the same edition

Comments:

Title:

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

Publication Date:

1779

ESTC No:

T145232

Volume:

3 of 4

Relationship:

Volume from the same edition

Comments:

Related People

Publisher:

John Fielding

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Comments:

Publisher:

John Walker

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Comments:

Content/Publication

First Line:

When Orpheus tuned his lyre to pleasing woe

Page No:

pp.1-2

Poem Title:

Epilogue To The British Enchanters.

Attribution:

Addison.

Attributed To:

Joseph Addison

First Line:

I come not here your poet's fate to see

Page No:

pp.2-4

Poem Title:

Epilogue To Love And A Bottle. Spoken By Jo. Haynes, In Mourning.

Attribution:

Farquhar.

Attributed To:

George Farquhar

First Line:

Now depart each his respective way

Page No:

pp.4-5

Poem Title:

Epilogue To The Constant Couple.

Attribution:

Farquhar.

Attributed To:

George Farquhar

First Line:

As a poor stranger wrecked upon the coast

Page No:

p.6

Poem Title:

Epilogue, Spoken By Mr. Wilks At His First Appearance Upon The English Stage.

Attribution:

Farquhar.

Attributed To:

George Farquhar

First Line:

Ventre bleu vere is dis dam poet vere

Page No:

pp.7-8

Poem Title:

Epilogue To Sir Harry Wildair.

Attribution:

Farquhar.

Attributed To:

George Farquhar

First Line:

Our poet opened with a loud and warlike blast

Page No:

pp.8-9

Poem Title:

Epilogue To The Twin Rivals. Spoken By Aurelia.

Attribution:

Farquhar.

Attributed To:

George Farquhar

First Line:

If to our play your judgment can't be kind

Page No:

p.11

Poem Title:

Epilogue Designed To Be Spoken To The Beaux Stratagem.

Attribution:

Farquhar.

Attributed To:

George Farquhar

First Line:

Shall authors tease the town with tragic passion

Page No:

pp.12-13

Poem Title:

Epilogue To The Captives.

Attribution:

Gay.

Attributed To:

John Gay

First Line:

Too long the poets brought before the bar

Page No:

pp.13-41 [i.e. 14]

Poem Title:

Epilogue To The Perjur'd Husband.

Attribution:

Centlivre.

Attributed To:

Susanna Centlivre

First Line:

You see gallants it has been our poet's care

Page No:

pp.15-16

Poem Title:

Epilogue To The Beau's Duel.

Attribution:

Centlivre.

Attributed To:

Susanna Centlivre

First Line:

As one condemned and ready to become

Page No:

pp.16-18

Poem Title:

Epilogue To The Gamester.

Attribution:

Centlivre.

Attributed To:

Susanna Centlivre

First Line:

This goodly fabric to a gazing tar

Page No:

pp.18-19

Poem Title:

Epilogue To The Basset-Table.

Attribution:

Centlivre.

Attributed To:

Susanna Centlivre

First Line:

In spite of dull insipid rules I'm come

Page No:

pp.19-20

Poem Title:

Epilogue To Love At A Venture. Spoken By Miss Jacobella Power.

Attribution:

Centlivre.

Attributed To:

Susanna Centlivre

First Line:

The plodding tribe are so resolved of late

Page No:

pp.20-21

Poem Title:

A Second Epilogue To The Same. Spoken By Mr. Penkethman.

Attribution:

Centlivre.

Attributed To:

Susanna Centlivre

First Line:

You've seen what scholar is in cap and gown

Page No:

pp.21-22

Poem Title:

Epilogue To The Stolen Heiress.

Attribution:

Centlivre.

Attributed To:

Susanna Centlivre

First Line:

What if to end this fortune telling play

Page No:

pp.22-24

Poem Title:

Epilogue To Love's Contrivance.

Attribution:

Centlivre.

Attributed To:

Susanna Centlivre

First Line:

In me you see one busy body more

Page No:

pp.24-24[i.e. 25]

Poem Title:

Epilogue To The Busy Body.

Attribution:

Centlivre.

Attributed To:

Susanna Centlivre

First Line:

To you the tyrant critics of the age

Page No:

pp.24 [i.e. 25]-26

Poem Title:

Epilogue To The Platonic Lady.

Attribution:

Centlivre.

Attributed To:

Susanna Centlivre

First Line:

What mighty pains our scribbling sot has shown

Page No:

pp.26-27

Poem Title:

A Second Epilogue To The Same. Spoken By Mrs. Bracegirdle.

Attribution:

Centlivre.

Attributed To:

Susanna Centlivre

First Line:

Your servant masters I'm sent on a message

Page No:

p.28

Poem Title:

A Third Epilogue To The Same. Spoken By Mr. Norris As Drawer.

Attribution:

Centlivre.

Attributed To:

Susanna Centlivre

First Line:

Oh woe is me oh oh oh what shall I say

Page No:

pp.29-30

Poem Title:

Epilogue To The Perplex'd Lovers. Spoken By Mr. Norris In Mourning.

Attribution:

Centlivre.

Attributed To:

Susanna Centlivre

First Line:

In those good times when war is like to cease

Page No:

pp.30-31

Poem Title:

Epilogue To The Same. Design'd To Have Been Spoken The First Night By Mrs. Oldfield.

Attribution:

Centlivre.

Attributed To:

Susanna Centlivre

First Line:

Custom with all our modern laws combined

Page No:

pp.32-33

Poem Title:

Epilogue To The Wonder. Spoken By Miss Santlow.

Attribution:

Centlivre.

Attributed To:

Susanna Centlivre

First Line:

What's this a billet doux from hands unknown

Page No:

pp.33-35

Poem Title:

Epilogue To The Man's Bewitch'd. Spoken By Mrs. Oldfield.

Attribution:

Centlivre.

Attributed To:

Susanna Centlivre

First Line:

What new strange ways our modern beaus devise

Page No:

pp.35-36

Poem Title:

Epilogue To A Bold Stroke For A Wife.

Attribution:

Centlivre.

Attributed To:

Susanna Centlivre

First Line:

Since plotting is the business of the age

Page No:

pp.37-38

Poem Title:

Epilogue To The Artifice. Spoken By Mrs. Oldfield.

Attribution:

Centlivre.

Attributed To:

Susanna Centlivre

First Line:

Prodigious this the frail one of our play

Page No:

pp.38-40

Poem Title:

Epilogue To Jane Shore. Designed For Mrs. Oldfield.

Attribution:

Pope.

Attributed To:

Alexander Pope

First Line:

Well ladies so much for the tragic style

Page No:

pp.40-41

Poem Title:

Epilogue To Cleone.

Attribution:

Shenstone.

Attributed To:

William Shenstone

First Line:

What could luxurious woman wish for more

Page No:

pp.42-43

Poem Title:

Epilogue To Mary Queen Of Scots.

Attribution:

By The Right Hon. L. M. W. M.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

A plague upon all cowards still I say

Page No:

pp.44-54[i.e. 45]

Poem Title:

Epilogue To Shakespeare's First Part Of King Henry IV. Spoken By Mr. J. Y. In The Character Of Falstaff. Acted By Young Gentlemen At

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Britons once more in annual joy we meet

Page No:

pp.46-48

Poem Title:

Epilogue To Tamerlane. On The Suppression Of The Rebellion. Spoken By Mrs. Pritchard, In The Character Of The Comic Muse, November 4, 1746.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Before you sign poor Sophonisba's doom

Page No:

pp.49-50

Poem Title:

Epilogue Designed For Sophonisba.

Attribution:

Written By Lord Hervey.

Attributed To:

John Hervey

First Line:

Some critic or I'm deceived will ask

Page No:

pp.51-52

Poem Title:

Epilogue To Comus, Spokne By Mrs. Clive, In The Dress Of Euphrosyne, With The Wand And Cup.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

There was a time when in his younger years

Page No:

p.52

Poem Title:

Epilogue To Money The Mistress, Being The Last Piece Written By Mr. Southerne.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Young and unpractised in dramatic rules

Page No:

p.53

Poem Title:

Epilogue To The Beaux Stratagem, As It Was Acted By Some Young Gentlemen In The Country.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Still as the heroine of the tragic scene

Page No:

pp.54-55

Poem Title:

Epilogue To The Artful Wife

Attribution:

Written By Mr. Taverner.

Attributed To:

William Taverner

First Line:

You reverend members of the upper row

Page No:

pp.55-56

Poem Title:

Epilogue To The Coquet.

Attribution:

Written By Mr. Molley.

Attributed To:

Charles Molloy

First Line:

Here as your faces in a glass ye see

Page No:

pp.56-57

Poem Title:

Epilogue To The Country Wife ....Spoken By Mrs. Younger In The Character Of The Country Wife.

Attribution:

Written By Mr. Cook.

Attributed To:

Thomas Cooke

First Line:

Well I suppose good folks ye're all a gog

Page No:

p.58

Poem Title:

Epilogue To Penelope...Spoken Bu Minerva.

Attribution:

By The Same [i.e. Cooke]

Attributed To:

Thomas Cooke

First Line:

Though just now killed I thus resume my breath

Page No:

pp.59-60

Poem Title:

Epilogue To Valentinian, Spoken In Boy's Cloaths By Miss Santlow, Afterwards Mrs. Booth, Who Acted The Part Of The Eunuch In The Play.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

As some brave soldier when soft peace gives rest

Page No:

pp.60-61

Poem Title:

Epilogue To Don Quixot, For Mr. Bickerstaff's Benefit, Spoken By Miss Santlow In Boy's Cloaths.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

O gentlemen I'm come but was not sent ye

Page No:

pp.62-63

Poem Title:

Epilogue To Eurydice...Spoken By Miss Robinson, In Boy's Clothes, Tripping in Hastily.

Attribution:

By Aaron Hill, Esq.

Attributed To:

Aaron Hill

First Line:

Well ladies of the art of masonry

Page No:

pp.63-65

Poem Title:

Epilogue For The Free-Masons. Spoken By Mrs. Younger At The Theatre In Lincolns-Inn-Fields, April 27, 1732.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Hold consort where's this epilogue I pray

Page No:

pp.65-67

Poem Title:

Epilogue Spoken At York, By Mr. Keregan And His Wife.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Of old the romans acted comic plays

Page No:

pp.68-69

Poem Title:

Epilogue To The Eunuch Of Terence. Acted By The King's Scholars At Westminster, February 6, 1733. Spoken Just After The Death Of Doctor Freind Master Of Westminster.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Great minds to strokes of fortune never yield

Page No:

pp.69-70

Poem Title:

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

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

I have been peeping for these many days

Page No:

pp.71-72

Poem Title:

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

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Well if all husbands keep so great a pother

Page No:

pp.72-73

Poem Title:

Epilogue To Venice Preserv'd Spoken By Belidera.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Cato revives again to cheer the fair

Page No:

pp.73-75

Poem Title:

Epilogue. Spoken In The Character Of Cato, At Port-Arlington School, Ireland.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Well now we've done I'll feed my sex's failing

Page No:

pp.75-77

Poem Title:

Epilogue To The Careless Husband. Spoken By Lady E. Modish and Lord Foppington.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Well for this once I'll undertake the part

Page No:

pp.77-78

Poem Title:

Epilogue To Mustapha. Spoken By Mr. Quin.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Such were the scenes Italian fancy wrought

Page No:

pp.78-79

Poem Title:

Epilogue To The Faithful Shepherd. Spoken By Mrs. Furnival.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

How happy chance may alter one's condition

Page No:

pp.79-80

Poem Title:

Epilogue To The Mock Doctor.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Forgive me Cato and forgive me Rome

Page No:

p.81

Poem Title:

Epilogue To Cato. As Acted By The Young Gentlemen Of The King's School At Rochester, 1743.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Tis not a birth to titles pomp or state

Page No:

pp.82-83

Poem Title:

Epilogue, On The Birth Day Of His Royal Highness The Duke Of Cumberland, 1746.

Attribution:

Written by The Farmer*, and Spoken By Mr. Garrick At The Theatre Royal, In Dublin. *Mr. Brooke, author of the Farmer's letters.

Attributed To:

Henry Brooke

First Line:

Peace bookworm bless me what a clerk have I

Page No:

pp.84-85

Poem Title:

Epilogue To Ignoramus. Acted At Westminster School In December, 1747. Spoken By Ignoramus And Musaeus.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Well gentlemen and are you still so vain

Page No:

pp.86-87

Poem Title:

Epilogue To Coriolanus. Spoken By Mrs. Woffington, 1749.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

The prologue's filled with such fine phrases

Page No:

pp.87-88

Poem Title:

Epilogue, Spoken By Prince Edward And Lady Augusta, On Performing The Tragedy Of Cato, At Leiceister [sic] House, 1749.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

I'm glad with all my heart I've scaped my wedding

Page No:

pp.89-90

Poem Title:

Epilogue To Merope. Spoken By Mrs. Pritchard In The Character of Merope, 1749.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Too long provoked in these censorious times

Page No:

pp.91-92

Poem Title:

Epilogue To The British Taste.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Against such odds if Edward could succeed

Page No:

pp.93-94

Poem Title:

Epilogue To Edward The Black Prince. Spoken By Mrs. Clive, 1750.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Ladies by me our courteous author sends

Page No:

pp.94-95

Poem Title:

Epilogue To The Roman Father.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

I'll do it by heaven I will pray get you gone

Page No:

pp.96-97

Poem Title:

Epilogue. By Mrs. Clive, On The Two Occasional Prologues, Spoken At Covent-Garden And Drury-Lane, 1750.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Of all the various wonders wit can do

Page No:

pp.98-99

Poem Title:

Epilogue To Eugenia.

Attribution:

Written By Colley Cibber, Esq. And Spoken By Mrs. Pritchard.

Attributed To:

Colley Cibber

First Line:

On every gamester in the Arabian nation

Page No:

pp.99-100

Poem Title:

Epilogue To The Gamester. Spoken By Mrs. Pritchard.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

News news good folks rare news and you shall know it

Page No:

pp.102-104

Poem Title:

Epilogue To The Earl of Essex. Spoken By Mrs. Cibber.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

An epilogue through custom is your right

Page No:

pp.101-102

Poem Title:

Epilogue To The Brothers.

Attribution:

Written By Dr. Young.

Attributed To:

Edward Young

First Line:

Now we have shown the fatal fruits of strife

Page No:

pp.104-105

Poem Title:

Epilogue To Boadicia. Spoken By Mr. Havard.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Poor I tossed up and down from shore to shore

Page No:

pp.105-106

Poem Title:

Mr. Macklin's Farewell Epilogue To The Refusal. Acted For His Benefit, In The Year 1753.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

While our grave hermit busy above stairs

Page No:

pp.107-110

Poem Title:

Epilogue To The Masque Of Alfred.

Attribution:

Written By Mr. Rolt, And Spoken By Mrs. Clive.

Attributed To:

Richard Rolt

First Line:

The curtain falls but hold our modern vogue

Page No:

pp.110-112

Poem Title:

Epilogue To The Adelphi Of Terence. Acted By The Charter-House Scholars, 1753. Spoken By -- Eyre, In The Character Of The Fidicina.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

I should not dare appear again before ye

Page No:

pp.112-113

Poem Title:

Epilogue To Philoclea. Spoken By Mrs. Bland.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

I told the bard ay yonder he stands quaking

Page No:

pp.113-115

Poem Title:

Epilogue To Appius. Spoken By Mrs. Bellamy.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Place ancient Rome and Britain in the scale

Page No:

pp.115-117

Poem Title:

An Occasional Epilogue To Appius.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Whoever begot thee has no cause to blush

Page No:

pp.117-119

Poem Title:

Epilogue To The Conscious Lovers. Acted At Covent-Garden Theatre, December 5, 1752, For The Benefit Of The Middlesex-Hospital.

Attribution:

Written By C. Smart, M. A. And Spoken By Mr. Shuter, In The Character Of A Man-Midwife.

Attributed To:

Christopher Smart

First Line:

A very pretty bill as I'm alive

Page No:

pp.119-121

Poem Title:

Epilogue To The Apprentice. Spoken By Mrs. Clive.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Aye now I can with pleasure look around

Page No:

pp.121-122

Poem Title:

Epilogue To The Reprisal. Spoken By Miss Macklin.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

And can it be sure they have all mistook

Page No:

pp.123-126

Poem Title:

Epilogue To The Heautonti-Morumenos, Of Terence. Acted By The Young Gentlemen Of Beverley School, 1756. Spoken By The Young Gentlemen Who Play'd Syrus.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Twas in my roost of eminence that lies

Page No:

pp.126-127

Poem Title:

Epilogue, Spoken By George Alexander Stevens, At The Conclusion Of The Disquisition In The Haymarket.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Raised by your favour from the barren shade

Page No:

pp.128-129

Poem Title:

An Occasional Epilogue To The Gentle Shepherd. Spoken By Mr. Lauder, At The New Theatre In The Hay-Market, For His Benefit.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Well you expect so says the taste in vogue

Page No:

pp.129-130

Poem Title:

Epilogue To Constantine. Spoken By Mrs. Bellamy.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

At length I'm freed from tragical parade

Page No:

pp.130-131

Poem Title:

Epilogue To Creusa. Spoken By Miss Haughton.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Stay ladies though I am almost tired to death

Page No:

pp.131-133

Poem Title:

A Second Epilogue To The Same. Spoken By Mrs. Pritchard.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Much has been said in this reforming age

Page No:

pp.133-134

Poem Title:

Epilogue, Spoken By Mrs. Hallam, At The Opening Of A New Theatre At Philadelphia, By A Company Of Comedians From London, April 15, 1754.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

My conduct now will every mind employ

Page No:

pp.134-135

Poem Title:

Epilogue To The Gamesters. Spoken By Mrs. Cibber.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

A king in bloom of youth for freedom die

Page No:

pp.136-137

Poem Title:

Epilogue To Agis.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

When vice and folly are a nation's bane

Page No:

pp.137-139

Poem Title:

Epilogue Intended To Be Spoken By Mr. Shuter, In The Character Of A Schoolmaster, With A Rod In His Hand.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Tis kind ye fair thus patiently to wait

Page No:

pp.140-141

Poem Title:

Epilogue To Terence's Andrian. Spoken By Master Coates, In The Character Of Mysis.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Who could have ever thought to have seen me

Page No:

pp.141-142

Poem Title:

Epilogue To The Albion Queens. Spoken By Jo. Haines.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

The play is at an end but where's the plot

Page No:

p.142

Poem Title:

Epilogue To The Rehearsal.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Ladies I've had a squabble with the poet

Page No:

pp.143-144

Poem Title:

Epilogue To The Jealous Wife. Spoken By Mrs. Clive.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Well ladies will you patronise or no

Page No:

pp.145-146

Poem Title:

Epilogue To The Discovery. Spoken By Mrs. Pritchard.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Ladies methinks I hear you all complain

Page No:

pp.146-741[i.e. 147]

Poem Title:

Epilogue To The Dupe. Spoken By Mrs. Clive.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

What we must all come to what come to what

Page No:

pp.148-149

Poem Title:

Epilogue To What We must All Come To. Spoken By Miss Elliott.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Ladies your country's ornament and pride

Page No:

pp.149-150

Poem Title:

Epilogue To The Fashionable Lover. Spoken By Mrs. Barry.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

The grecian daughter's compliments to all

Page No:

pp.151-152

Poem Title:

Epilogue To The Grecian Daughter. Spoken By Miss Younge.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Tis very fine indeed all matched I see

Page No:

pp.153-154

Poem Title:

Epilogue To A Wife In The Right. Spoken By Mrs. Mattocks.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Critics before you rise one word I pray

Page No:

pp.155-156

Poem Title:

Epilogue To The Gamesters. Spoken By Mrs. Abington.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Well I protest there's no such thing as dealing

Page No:

pp.156-157

Poem Title:

Epilogue To The Prince Of Tunis. Spoken By Mrs. Weston.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Our play thus over now swells each throbbing breast

Page No:

p.158

Poem Title:

Epilogue To Alzuma. Spoken By Mrs. Hartley.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Though lately dead a princess and of Spain

Page No:

pp.159-160

Poem Title:

Epilogue To Alonzo. Spoken By Mrs. Barry.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

So men of valour you dislike our play

Page No:

pp.161-162

Poem Title:

Epilogue To The Duellist. Spoken By Miss Barsanti.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Can it be thought ye wives this scribbling fool

Page No:

pp.162-164

Poem Title:

Epilogue To The School For Wives. Spoken By Mrs. Abington.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

When plays are over by epilogue we're able

Page No:

pp.164-167

Poem Title:

Epilogue To The Man Of Business. Spoken By Mrs. Bulkley.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Oh such a sight I've been upon the course

Page No:

pp.167-168

Poem Title:

Epilogue To The Note Of Hand; Or, A Trip To Newmarket.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Of mortal men how equal is the date

Page No:

pp.169-170

Poem Title:

Occasional Epilogue, Spoken By Miss Barsanti, On The Death Of The Manager Of The Theatre-Royal, Covent-Garden, May 26, 1774.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Among the arts to make a piece go down

Page No:

pp.171-172

Poem Title:

Epilogue To The Englishman Returned From Paris. Spoken By Mrs. Bellamy.

Attribution:

Foote.

Attributed To:

Samuel Foote

First Line:

Hold sir | Our plot concluded and strict justice done

Page No:

pp.172-174

Poem Title:

Epilogue To The Lyar. Between Miss Grantham and Old Wilding.

Attribution:

Foote.

Attributed To:

Samuel Foote

First Line:

Let me entreat you madam pause a bit

Page No:

pp.174-175

Poem Title:

Epilogue Designed For The Nabob. Prompter and Lady.

Attribution:

Foote.

Attributed To:

Samuel Foote

First Line:

From Otway's and immortal Shakespeare's page

Page No:

pp.175-177

Poem Title:

Epilogue To Clementina. Spoken By Mrs. Yates.

Attribution:

Colman.

Attributed To:

George Colman

First Line:

What horrors fill the tragic poet's brain

Page No:

pp.177-178

Poem Title:

Epilogue To Timantehs. Spoken By Mrs. Bulkley.

Attribution:

Colman.

Attributed To:

George Colman

First Line:

Great and fair ladies lords gallant and mighty

Page No:

pp.179-180

Poem Title:

Epilogue To King Henry The Second. Or The Fall Of Rosamond. Spoken By Miss Barsanti.

Attribution:

Colman.

Attributed To:

George Colman

First Line:

A female doctor sirs and pray why not

Page No:

pp.181-182

Poem Title:

Epilogue To The Spleen; Or, Islington Spa. Spoken by Mrs. King, in the character of Dr. Anodyne.

Attribution:

Colman.

Attributed To:

George Colman

First Line:

I who was late so volatile and gay

Page No:

pp.182-184

Poem Title:

Epilogue To The School For Scandal. Spoken By Mrs. Abington, in the character of Lady Teazel.

Attribution:

Colman.

Attributed To:

George Colman

First Line:

Hold prompter hold a word before your nonsense

Page No:

pp.184-186

Poem Title:

Epilogue, Spoken By Mr. Lee Lewes, In The Character Of Harlequin, At His Benefit.

Attribution:

Goldsmith.

Attributed To:

Oliver Goldsmith

First Line:

What five long acts and all to make us wiser

Page No:

pp.186-188

Poem Title:

Epilogue To The Sister. Spoken By Mrs. Bulkley.

Attribution:

Goldsmith.

Attributed To:

Oliver Goldsmith

First Line:

Well having stooped to conquer with success

Page No:

pp.188-189

Poem Title:

Epilogue To She Stoops To Conquer. Spoken By Mrs. Bulkley.

Attribution:

Goldsmith.

Attributed To:

Oliver Goldsmith

First Line:

Such were the scenes while base corruption strayed

Page No:

pp.189-109[i.e. 190]

Poem Title:

Epilogue To The Election.

Attribution:

Cumberland.

Attributed To:

Richard Cumberland

First Line:

The muse who late with melancholy pride

Page No:

pp.109 [i.e. 190]-191

Poem Title:

Epilogue To Sir Thomas Overbury.

Attribution:

Cumberland.

Attributed To:

Richard Cumberland

First Line:

Thou loathsome dungeon in whose drear womb

Page No:

pp.192-194

Poem Title:

Epilogue. Spoken Before The Society Of The Thatch'd House Tavern, For The Relief And Discharge Of Persons Imprisoned For Small Debts. December 3, 1774.

Attribution:

Cumberland.

Attributed To:

Richard Cumberland

First Line:

A roman parent sacrifice a son

Page No:

pp.194-195

Poem Title:

Epilogue To The Roman Sacrifice.

Attribution:

Cumberland.

Attributed To:

Richard Cumberland

First Line:

From ancient Thespis to the present age

Page No:

pp.195-196

Poem Title:

Epilogue To The Battle Of Hastings.

Attribution:

Cumberland.

Attributed To:

Richard Cumberland

First Line:

The poet's pen can like a conjurer's wand

Page No:

pp.197-198

Poem Title:

Epilogue To Virginia.

Attribution:

Garrick.

Attributed To:

David Garrick

First Line:

I know you all expect from seeing me

Page No:

pp.198-200

Poem Title:

Epilogue To The Foundling. Spoken By Mrs. Cibber.

Attribution:

Garrick.

Attributed To:

David Garrick

First Line:

As the success of authors is uncertain

Page No:

pp.200-201

Poem Title:

Epilogue To Gil Blas.

Attribution:

Garrick.

Attributed To:

David Garrick

First Line:

Pshaw damn your epilogue and hold your tongue

Page No:

pp.202-203

Poem Title:

Epilogue To Bararossa. Spoken By Mr. Woodward, In The Character Of A fine Gentleman.

Attribution:

Garrick.

Attributed To:

David Garrick

First Line:

To speak ten words again I've fetched my breath

Page No:

pp.204-205

Poem Title:

Epilogue To Athelstan. Spoken By Mrs. Cibber.

Attribution:

Garrick.

Attributed To:

David Garrick

First Line:

If any here are Britons but in name

Page No:

pp.206-207

Poem Title:

Epilogue To The Earl Of Essex. Spoken By Mrs. Pritchard, In The Character Of Queen Elizabeth.

Attribution:

Garrick.

Attributed To:

David Garrick

First Line:

Old times old fashions and the fairies gone

Page No:

pp.207-209

Poem Title:

Epilogue To Edgar And Emeline.

Attribution:

Garrick.

Attributed To:

David Garrick

First Line:

That I'm a lying rogue you all agree

Page No:

pp.209-210

Poem Title:

Epilogue To The Lying Valet. Spoken By Mr. Garrick.

Attribution:

Garrick.

Attributed To:

David Garrick

First Line:

I long to know dear sirs with due submission

Page No:

pp.211-212

Poem Title:

Epilogue To The School For Rakes. Spoken By Mrs. Clive.

Attribution:

Garrick.

Attributed To:

David Garrick

First Line:

Stripped of my tragic weeds and raised from death

Page No:

pp.212-213

Poem Title:

Epilogue To Hecuba. Spoken By Miss Bride.

Attribution:

Garrick.

Attributed To:

David Garrick

First Line:

Ladies and gentlemen tis so ill bred

Page No:

pp.213-215

Poem Title:

Epilogue To Elvira. Spoken By Mrs. Cibber.

Attribution:

Garrick.

Attributed To:

David Garrick

First Line:

Exhausted quite with prisons racks and death

Page No:

pp.215-217

Poem Title:

Epilogue To The Earl Of Warwick. Spoken By Mrs. Yates.

Attribution:

Garrick.

Attributed To:

David Garrick

First Line:

I'll hear no more thou wretch attend to reason

Page No:

pp.217-220

Poem Title:

Epilogue To The English Merchant. Enter Lady Alton [Mrs. Abington] in a passion; Spatter, [Mr. King] following.

Attribution:

Garrick.

Attributed To:

David Garrick

First Line:

When with the comic muse a bard hath dealing

Page No:

pp.221-222

Poem Title:

Epilogue To False Delicacy.

Attribution:

Garrick.

Attributed To:

David Garrick

First Line:

How do you all good folks in tears for certain

Page No:

pp.223-224

Poem Title:

Epilogue To Zenobia. Spoken By Mrs. Abington.

Attribution:

Garrick.

Attributed To:

David Garrick

First Line:

Bless me this summer work is so fatiguing

Page No:

pp.225-226

Poem Title:

Epilogue To All In The Wrong. Spoken By Mrs. Yates.

Attribution:

Garrick.

Attributed To:

David Garrick

First Line:

Ye critics above and ye critics below

Page No:

pp.227-228

Poem Title:

Song By Way Of Epilogue To All In The Wrong.

Attribution:

Garrick.

Attributed To:

David Garrick

First Line:

I'm sent good folks to speak the epilogue

Page No:

pp.229-230

Poem Title:

Epilogue To Zingis. Spoken By Mrs. Abington.

Attribution:

Garrick.

Attributed To:

David Garrick

First Line:

A female bard far from her native land

Page No:

pp.230-232

Poem Title:

Epilogue To Almida. Spoken By Mrs. Barry.

Attribution:

Garrick.

Attributed To:

David Garrick

First Line:

As it is proved by scholars of great fame

Page No:

pp.232-234

Poem Title:

Epilogue To Sethona. Spoken By Mrs. Barry.

Attribution:

Garrick.

Attributed To:

David Garrick

First Line:

In parliament whenever a question comes

Page No:

pp.234-235

Poem Title:

Epilogue To The Maid Of The Oaks. Spoken By Mrs. Abington.

Attribution:

Garrick.

Attributed To:

David Garrick

First Line:

As I'm an artist can my skill do better

Page No:

pp.236-237

Poem Title:

Epilogue To The Cholerick Man. Spoken By Mrs. Abington.

Attribution:

Garrick.

Attributed To:

David Garrick

First Line:

What son of physic but his art extends

Page No:

pp.238-239

Poem Title:

Epilogue To The Inflexible Captive.

Attribution:

Garrick.

Attributed To:

David Garrick

First Line:

Ladies before I go will you allow

Page No:

pp.240-241

Poem Title:

Epilogue To The Discovery. Spoken By Mr. Garrick, In The Character Of Sir Anthony Branville.

Attribution:

Garrick.

Attributed To:

David Garrick

First Line:

Post haste from Italy arrives my lover

Page No:

pp.241-243

Poem Title:

Epilogue To The Runaway. Spoken By Miss Younge.

Attribution:

Garrick.

Attributed To:

David Garrick

First Line:

If after tragedy tis made a rule

Page No:

pp.243-245

Poem Title:

Epilogue To Know Your Own Mind. Spoken By Mrs. Mattocks.

Attribution:

Garrick.

Attributed To:

David Garrick

First Line:

I must will speak I hope my dress and air

Page No:

pp.245-246

Poem Title:

Epilogue To Percy. Spoken By Mr. Lee Lewes.

Attribution:

Garrick.

Attributed To:

David Garrick

First Line:

Our bards of late so tragic in their calling

Page No:

pp.247-248

Poem Title:

Epilogue To Alfred. Spoken By Mrs. Barry.

Attribution:

Garrick.

Attributed To:

David Garrick

First Line:

What various modes prevail in various parts

Page No:

pp.248-250

Poem Title:

Epilogue To The Spanish Barber.

Attribution:

Garrick.

Attributed To:

David Garrick

First Line:

The critics say and constantly repeat

Page No:

pp.250-252

Poem Title:

Epilogue To The Suicide. Spoken By Miss Farren.

Attribution:

Garrick.

Attributed To:

David Garrick

First Line:

Prologues and epilogues to speak the phrase

Page No:

pp.252-254

Poem Title:

Epilogue To The Fathers. Spoken By Miss Younge.

Attribution:

Garrick.

Attributed To:

David Garrick

First Line:

Such strains as mingled with the lyre

Page No:

p.254

Poem Title:

Epilogue To The Carmen Seculare.

Attribution:

Garrick.

Attributed To:

David Garrick