between your banks.-[Bell rings.] There, go! now for 't! -Stand aside, my dear friends !-Away, Thames ! 66 66 [Exit THAMES between his banks [Flourish of drums, trumpets, cannon, &c. &c. Scene changes to the sea-the fleets engage-the music plays Britons, strike home."-Spanish fleet destroyed by fire-ships, &c.—English fleet advances-music plays Rule, Britannia."-The procession of all the English rivers, and their tributaries, with their emblems, &c., begins with Handel's water-music, ends with a chorus, to the march in Judas Maccabæus.-During this scene, PUFF directs and applauds every thing-then Puff. Well, pretty well-but not quite perfect. So, ladies and gentlemen, if you please, we'll rehearse this piece again to-morrow. [Curtain drops A TRIP TO SCARBOROUGH PROLOGUE SPOKEN BY MR. KING WHAT various transformations we remark, One chaste salute I-the damsel cried-Oh, fie! Hath broke its bounds, and swallows up the shoe; No blushes now their once-loved station seek; As change thus circulates throughout the nation, We hope to find in you their stage asylum. *"And Van want grace, who never wanted wit."-POPE. |