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Show EPILOGUE, A L L Ladies and Gentlemen, that are willing to fee the Comedy, cali'd the Recruiting Ojfcer, let them repair to • marrow Night, by fix a Clock, to the Sign of the Theatre Royal inDrury-lane, and they fhall be kindly entertain'd. - We fcorn the vulgar Ways to bid you come, Whole Europe now obeys the Call of Drum. The Soldier, not the Poet, here appears, And beats up for a Corps of Volunteers: He finds that Mufick chiefly does delight ye, And therefore chufes Mufick to invite ye. Beat the Granadeer March Row, row, tow Gentlemen, this piece of Mufick, cali'd an Overture to a Battel, was compos'd by a famous Italian Mafter, and was performed with wonderful Succefs, at the great Opera's of Vigo, Schcllenbergh, and Bleinheim; it came off with the Applaufe of all Europe, excepting France; the French found it a little too rough for their Del\catcffe. Some that have ailed on thofe glorious Stages, *)' Are here to witnefs to fucceeding Ages, J> That no Mufick like the Granadeer s engages, j , Ladies, we muft own, that this Mufick of ours is notalto-getherfo foft as Bonancini's; yet w e dare affirm, that it has laid more People afleep than all the Camilla's in the World; and you'll condefcend to own, that it keeps one awake, better than any Opera that ever was acted. The Granadeer March feems to be a compofure excellently adapted to the Genius of the Englifh; for no Mufick was ever jfollow'd fo far by us, nor with fo much Alacrity ; and with all Deference to the prefent Subfcription, w e muft fay, that fhe Granadeer March has been fubferib'd for by the whole Grand |
