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Show ( MS ) P R O L O G U E ; Written by Mr. Steele. Spoken by Mr. Booth. UR Author's Wit and Raillery to-night Perhaps might pleafe, but that yeur Stage- . . (delight. No more is m your Minds, but Ears and* . . . . , Sight. With Audiences compos \' of Belles and Beaux The firft Dramatick Rule is, have good Clothes... To charm the gay Spectator's gentle Breafty In Lace and Feather Tragedy's exprefs'd, And Heroes die unpity'd, if ill-drefs'd. The other Style you full as well advance % If 'tis a Comedy, you ask Who dance ? lor oh I what dire Convulfions have of late Tern and diftracled each Dramatick State, On this great Qtteftion, which Houfe firft fhould fell The New French Steps, imported by Ruel ? Desbarques can't rife fo high, we muft agree, They've half a Foot in Height more Wit than we* 'But tho the Genius of our Learned Age Thinks fit to Dance and Sing quite off the Stage^ True A^icn, Comtek Mirth, and Tragic^Rage; Tet as your Tafie now fiands, our Author draws ome Hopes of your Indulgence and Applaufe. } |