Star.
London, England, 1816-11-06 00:00:00

THE PROLOGUE.

ViILITTIIN IT MI. PEACOCK, AND Mat* IT ML witttacs.
Beyond the hopes and fears of ear days.
The frowns of ellaVrt and the of Praire.
Is he, the Bard. on'whLea untimely tomb
Year Latour bade the Thespian laurel his as I
Though late the awed that armed his adasmal stalk
It has oot died, and wee am glen in vain.
If now oar hopes one mart memorial roar.
To blend with those that live unwlthedig boew..
Alfas thit $0.6 lam Chelps deeps la night
One Bower expands to bloom in eagmbiglight—e
Flower of a stem which ow amarsimg arty .
Shall clothe anew with hatband bismasing—.
Oh ! yet again the tacit* wreaths /am
To grace his same, which kinsat Mad his brow ;
Aid whiff asrudealsnammlaimmsapinamost. • ,*.tt
SSUI prove kind Grankoor to his erpales l •
THE EPILOGUE.
MAUI IT MIL DATIIION.

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iSpee—hissi Ise she Starrier.'
I wIB Si forth and speak it—ist me through nans.4Zideriegl '
The Epilogues among the rights of warm' I
Though timing's your Thom not a females heard,
The Play once done, no man shall say a word.
Ladies, my wrongs are yeses Oak Acton Soot us,
Shall Managers pretend to do without us?
And persevere—for they have dared begin it,
To act a Play without a woman in it ?
They err. SIALESPLASIest Then, I must caofese,
h mush destroys my reverence for Queen Bess.
Sbe who the French could tame. the Spaniard fetter,
Might sere have taught her way Poet better.
Thes Sera with rage, no Prompter's mandate checks;
Ladles, I stand the champion of the sex
And for ems Bird claim your applies' by right,
I or women guide our moult* an might.
And bard, and bold, and high In peke should be,
The task our closing Drama hems to me.
A Osionter thin by wedlock to reclaim !
How many think I plap a deepemte poser
Yet can good wives, if wise, be every stain,
On man week miracles of refanaation.
And were such wive, nose mom, rd issurtit,
However peat the malady, they'd cure h.
And mush their ski is wanted in a nation
'flat plays so deep the game of spetudetioss
Some to pursue k in St. OBes's meet,
Some, more pet In St. lama's
To bawd et a single throw,
Or sink a posy on a Little Oo
Here rises WWI hies his smolt, slumber,
Oae who's been dreaming of a lack, aemsber.
His Anibal, mat'.—be seeks the shop where prime,
in golden rhymes are prank'd in ail slue,
With bead brim.full of weskit, sad eetpty parer, •
The letter somas—Alas I 'di all blank verse I
la vein the Lover hangs o'er Cocoa's chain's;
What's Love to her, while Pam le in her anus.
What on her cheek can raise the glowing blush
A Lover's tender vows ? Oh, no—a Flush.
A. Author too stakes deep, wise darts =gage
His all in that uncertain game, the Stage.
When ye who here in solemn lodgment sit,
Approve his satire, or applaud his wit,
He thanks his stars for such a lately hit, -
Saves up his winnings% leaves the table py,
And stakes again upon another Play !
Mrs. Davison spoke the above with die most
admirable effect 1..8nd the Play was given out for this
night amidst loud and reitei.:ted bluets of applause.

'Naar:iota, in addition to his engagements at the
Bath and Bristol Theatres, is singing with much
eclat at the Concerts of the latter City.
The Duke of MILLINGTII4 has purchased of his
.brother, the Marquis of WiLLLEELZY, his elegant resi-
dence, Apsley House, Hyde-Park-Corner, for which
he paid hivii 140,0(X).
Malang and Ileajartia Whitfield' who were on Sa-
turday charged at Batton-garden Office, with cutting,
'the throat of a donkey, were yesterday charged. with'
stealing oast, the property at T, Handley., Esq. and!
'fully committed.
Two drovers, mused Racist. and Oriolelart, were.
yesterday fined at the Mansion-home, in the matige-.
sod penalty, the fiffiliit we. and the latter 51. rot
Linhantenell heath% some cattle in Sagthigid.