Footnote:
1. This practice continued at the opera of Paris in the time of Gay.
It could hardly have obtained any where else.
"But, hark! the full orchestra strikes the strings,
The hero struts, and the whole audience sings;
My jarring ear harsh grating murmurs wound.
Hoarse and confused, like Babel's mingled sound.
Hard chance had placed me near a noisy throat,
That, in rough quavers, bellowed every note:
"Pray, Sir," said I, "suspend awhile your song,
The opera's drowned, your lungs are wondrous strong;
I wish to hear your Roland's ranting strain,
When he with rooted forests strews the plain."--
"_Monsieur assurement n'aime pas la musique._"
Then turning round, he joined the ungrateful noise,
And the loud chorus thundered with his voice."
_Epistle to the Right Hon. William Pulteney._
Names of the Persons, represented in the same
order as they appear first upon the stage.
MERCURY.
AUGUSTA. _London._
THAMESIS.
DEMOCRACY.
ZELOTA. _Feigned Zeal._
ARCHON. _The General._
JUNO.
IRIS.
ALBION.
ALBANIUS.
PLUTO.
ALECTO.
APOLLO.
NEPTUNE.
NEREIDS.
ACACIA. _Innocence._
TYRANNY.
ASEBIA. _Atheism,_ or _Ungodliness._
PROTEUS.
VENUS.
FAME.
_A Chorus of Cities.
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