...Covent-gardcn ftage a winter or two before. 03 'Ah! ' Ah ! let not cenfure term our fate our choice, c The ftage but echoes back the public voice ; ' The drama's laws the drama's patrons give, c For we that live to pleafe, muft pleafe to live. ' Then prompt no more the lollies you decry, c As...

...Perhaps, for who can guefs the dl eels of chance i Here Hunt may box, and Mahomet may dance. Ah ! Jet not cenfure term our fate our choice, The ftage but echoes back the public voice. As to gentlemen writers of genius being excluded from having their works produced, I cannot think the...

...who can gueis the eft'efts of chance ? Here Hunt may box, and Mahomet may dance. Ah ! let not cenlure term our fate our choice, The ftage but echoes back the public voice. As to gentlemen writers of genius being excluded from having their works produced, I cannot think the...

...chafe the new-blown bubble of the dav. Ah ! let not ctnfure term our fate our choice, Г he ft age but echoes back the public voice ; The Drama's laws the Drama's patrons give, For we that live to pícale, muft pícale to live. Then prompt no more the follies you decry, As tyrants doom their tools...

...viciffitudcs of tafte: With ev'ry meteor of caprice muft play, And chace the new blown bubble of the day. Ah T let not cenfure term our fate our choice, The ftage...The drama's laws the drama's patrons give, For we, who live to pleafe, muft pleafe to live. Then prompt no more the follies you decry, As tyrants doom...

...mere rainbow; all its gaudy colours arise from reflection: or, as a modern bard more happily says, " The drama's laws, the drama's patrons give ; " For we that live to please, must please to live." Sraff'. Why then, after all, I find I am in a hobble. Foote. May be not;...

...And chase the new-blown bubbles of the day. Ah 1 let not censure term our fate our choice, The stage but echoes back the public voice ; The drama's laws, the drama's patrons give, For we that live to please, must please to live. Then prompt no more the follies you descry, As tyrants doom their tools...

...rainbow — all its gaudy colours arise from reflection, or a« a modern bard more happily says — " The drama's laws— the drama's patrons give, For we that live to please, must please to live." Scoff'. What then, after all, I find I am in a hobble. Foote. May be...

...bubbles of the day. Ah ! let not Censure term our fate our choice, The stage but echoes back the publick voice ; The drama's laws, the drama's patrons give. For we that live to please, must please to live. Then prompt no more the follies you decry, As tyrants doom their tools...

...refer are these; they are extracted from a prologue written by Johnson, and spoken by Garrick:— " The Drama's Laws, the Drama's Patrons give, For we that live to please, must please to live. ' * the pestilence into their neighbourhood, because it has not been universally...