The court of Thespis, being a collection of the most admired prologues and epilogues that have appeared for many years [T71442] [ecco]

DMI number:

1089

Publication Date:

1769

Volume Number:

1 of 1

ESTC number:

T71442

EEBO/ECCO link:

CW110415340

Shelfmark:

ECCO - bod

Full Title:

THE | COURT of THESPIS; | BEING A | COLLECTION | Of the most admired | Prologues and Epilogues | That have appeared for many Year; | Written by some of the most approved Wits of the Age, | viz. [i]Garrick, Colman, Foote, Murphy, Lloyd, &c.[/i] | [epigraph] | LONDON. | Printed for [i]Richardson[/i] and [i]Urquhart[/i], under the [i]Royal | Exchange[/i]. | M.DCC.LXIX.

Epigraph:

O! ne'er may folly seize the throne of taste, | Nor dulness lay the realms of genius waste; | No bouncing crackers ape the thund'rer's fire; | No tumbler float upon the bending wire: | More natural uses to the stage belong, | Than tumblers, monsts, pantomime, or song. | [i]Lloyd's Actor.[/i]

Place of Publication:

London

Format:

Duodecimo

Bibliographic details:

Plates throughout.

Comments:

Contents: prose items pp. 41-47, 93-105. Query: add new genre - 'Collection of prologues, epilogues / theatrical texts'.

Other matter:

Prefatory matter: Dedication to David Garrick signed 'The Editor'. Back matter: Contents pp. [i]-iii.

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Publisher:

Leonard Urquhart

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Comments:

Publisher:

William Richardson

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

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Content/Publication

First Line:

The pliant muscles of the various face

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p.ii

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Too long has farce neglecting nature's laws

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pp.1-2

Poem Title:

Prologue To Miss In Her Teens.

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Good folks I'm come at my young lady's bidding

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pp.3-4

Poem Title:

Epilogue Spoken By Mrs. Pritchard.

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Stay ladies though I am almost tired to death

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pp.4-6

Poem Title:

Epilogue To Creusa. Spoken By Mrs. Pritchard.

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First Line:

Ye glittering train whom lace and velvet bless

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pp.6-7

Poem Title:

Prologue to Irene.

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First Line:

Poets and painters who from nature draw

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pp.7-8

Poem Title:

Prologue To The Clandestine Marriage.

Attribution:

Written By Mr. Garrick.

Attributed To:

David Garrick

First Line:

Ladies with leave | pass | pass | you must do more

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pp.9-15

Poem Title:

Epilogue.

Attribution:

Written by Mr. Garrick.

Attributed To:

David Garrick

First Line:

I'll hear no more thou wretch attend to reason

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pp.15-19

Poem Title:

Epilogue To The English Merchant.

Attribution:

Written By Mr. Garrick.

Attributed To:

David Garrick

First Line:

An ancient sage when death approached his bed

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pp.19-20

Poem Title:

Prologue To The Reprisal. Spoken by Mr. Harvard.

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First Line:

Aye now I can with pleasure look around

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pp.21-22

Poem Title:

Epilogue Spoken By Miss Macklin.

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If in these days of luxury and ease

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pp.22-24

Poem Title:

Prologue To Agis. Spoken By Mr. Garrick.

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First Line:

When first the haughty critic's dreadful rage

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pp.24-25

Poem Title:

Prologue To The Way To Keep Him. Spoken by Mr. Holland.

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First Line:

That I'm a lying rogue you all agree

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pp.26-27

Poem Title:

Epilogue To The Lying Valet. Spoken By Mr. Garrick.

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First Line:

To contradict blockhead idiot fool sot

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pp.28-29

Poem Title:

Prologue To The Englishman In Paris. Between Mr. Macklin and his Wife.

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First Line:

All all shall out all that I know and feel

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pp.30-32

Poem Title:

Prologue To The Desert Island ... In the Character of a Drunken Poet.

Attribution:

Written and Spoken By Mr. Garrick.

Attributed To:

David Garrick

First Line:

Our steadfast bard to his own genius true

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pp.32-33

Poem Title:

Prologue To Comus.

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First Line:

Some critic or I'm deceived will ask

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pp.34-35

Poem Title:

Epilogue Spoken By Mrs. Clive, in the Dress of Euprosyne, with the Wand and Cup.

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First Line:

Prologues precede the piece in mournful verse

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pp.35-37

Poem Title:

Prologue To The Apprentice ... Spoken by Mr. Woodward, dressed in Black.

Attribution:

Written by Mr. Garrick.

Attributed To:

David Garrick

First Line:

Like famed La Mancha's knight who lance in hand

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pp.37-38

Poem Title:

Prologue To The Gamester.

Attribution:

Written and Spoken By Mr. Garrick.

Attributed To:

David Garrick

First Line:

News news good folks rare news and you shall know it

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pp.39-40

Poem Title:

Epilogue To The Earl of Essex. Spoken By Mrs. Cibber.

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First Line:

And what becomes of your poor servant Shift

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pp.48-49

Poem Title:

The Concluding Speech To The Minor. Shift, addressing himself to Sir George Wealthy.

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First Line:

Bold is the man who in this nicer age

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pp.50-51

Poem Title:

Prologue To Tancred And Sigismunda.

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First Line:

Crammed to the throat with wholesome moral stuff

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pp.51-52

Poem Title:

Epilogue Spoken By Miss Budgell.

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First Line:

Is not my master here among you pray

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pp.53-55

Poem Title:

Prologue to Barbarossa.

Attribution:

Written by Mr. Garrick, and spoken by him in the Character of a Country Boy.

Attributed To:

David Garrick

First Line:

To warn the sons of freedom to be wise

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pp.55-57

Poem Title:

Prologue To Athelstan. Spoken by Mr. Holland, in the Character of the Genius of Britain.

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Not attributed

First Line:

Pressed by the load of life the weary mind

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pp.57-58

Poem Title:

Prologue To The Good Natured Man.

Attribution:

Written by Dr. Johnson.

Attributed To:

Samuel Johnson

First Line:

I'm vexed quite vexed and you'll be vexed that's worse

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pp.58-60

Poem Title:

Prologue To False Delicacy.

Attribution:

Written By Mr. Garrick.

Attributed To:

David Garrick

First Line:

When with the comic muse a bard hath dealing

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pp.60-62

Poem Title:

Epilogue...spoken by Mrs Dancer.

Attribution:

Written by Mr. Garrick.

Attributed To:

David Garrick

First Line:

Enough of Greece and Rome the exhausted store

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pp.62-63

Poem Title:

Prologue To The Orphan Of China.

Attribution:

Written By William Whitehead, Esq.

Attributed To:

William Whitehead

First Line:

Through five long acts I've wore my sighing face

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pp.63-65

Poem Title:

Epilogue Spoken By Mrs. Yates.

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First Line:

Well ladies so much for the tragic style

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pp.65-67

Poem Title:

Epilogue To Cleone.

Attribution:

Written By Mr. Shenstone.

Attributed To:

William Shenstone

First Line:

War is no more those thunders cease to roll

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pp.68-69

Poem Title:

Prologue To Elvira.

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First Line:

Ladies and gentlemen tis so ill bred

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pp.69-71

Poem Title:

Epilogue...Spoken By Mrs Cibber.

Attribution:

Written by Mr. Garrick.

Attributed To:

David Garrick

First Line:

A skilful cook this useful art will boast

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pp.71-72

Poem Title:

Prologue To Daphne and Amyntor.

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First Line:

With doubt joy apprehension almost dumb

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pp.73-74

Poem Title:

Prologue To Much Ado About Nothing. Acted by command of his Majesty.

Attribution:

Written By Mr. Garrick.

Attributed To:

David Garrick

First Line:

Severe each poet's lot but sure most hard

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pp.74-76

Poem Title:

Prologue to the Earl of Warwick.

Attribution:

Written by Mr. Colman.

Attributed To:

George Colman

First Line:

By opposition lately sore affrighted

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pp.76-78

Poem Title:

An Occasional Prologue. Intended to have been spoken by Mrs. Love, at the Theatre Royal on Richmond Green.

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First Line:

This night we add some heroes to our store

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pp.79-80

Poem Title:

Prologue To The Taylors. Spoken By Mr. Foote.

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First Line:

Fresh from the schools behold an Oxford smart

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pp.80-82

Poem Title:

Prologue To The Oxonian In Town.

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First Line:

Here they are ladies should these charming packs

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pp.82-84

Poem Title:

Epilogue Spoken By Mrs. Mattocks.

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First Line:

Of old when Greece in a declining age

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pp.84-85

Poem Title:

Prologue To Zenobia. Spoken By Mr. Holland.

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First Line:

An old trite proverb let me quote

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pp.86-87

Poem Title:

Prologue upon Prologues.

Attribution:

Written by Mr. Garrick.

Attributed To:

David Garrick

First Line:

Hush let me search before I speak aloud

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pp.88-89

Poem Title:

Mr. Foote's Address To The Public, After a Prosecution against him for a Libel.

Attribution:

Mr. Foote.

Attributed To:

Samuel Foote

First Line:

Too long by some fatality misled

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pp.90-91

Poem Title:

Prologue To The Englishman At Bordeaux.

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First Line:

The anxious struggle happily overpast

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pp.91-92

Poem Title:

Epilogue.

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First Line:

The fifth act past you'll think it strange to find

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pp.105-106

Poem Title:

Epilogue To Alzira.

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First Line:

While other culprits brave is to the last

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pp.107-108

Poem Title:

Prologue To The Suspicious Husband.

Attribution:

Written By Mr. Garrick.

Attributed To:

David Garrick

First Line:

Though the young smarts I see begin to sneer

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pp.108-109

Poem Title:

Epilogue.

Attribution:

Written By Mr. Garrick.

Attributed To:

David Garrick

First Line:

To wake the soul by tender strokes of art

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pp.110-111

Poem Title:

Prologue To Cato

Attribution:

By Mr. Pope.

Attributed To:

Alexander Pope

First Line:

Success makes people vain the maxim's true

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pp.112-113

Poem Title:

Prologue To The School For Lovers. Spoken By Mr. Garrick.

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First Line:

The many various objects that amuse

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pp.113-115

Poem Title:

Prologue Spoken By Mr. Foote.

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Not attributed

First Line:

Severe their task who in this critic age

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pp.115-117

Poem Title:

Prologue To The Author.

Attribution:

Written And Spoken By Mr. Foote.

Attributed To:

Samuel Foote

First Line:

Well if though my boy a little mellow

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pp.118-120

Poem Title:

Prologue. Spoken by Mr. Garrick, in the Character of a Drunken Sailor, and talking to himself, he enters, singing, How pleasant a sailor's life passes.

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First Line:

Whenever the wits of France take pen in hand

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pp.120-122

Poem Title:

Prologue To The Gamester, A Comedy.

Attribution:

Written and Spoken By Mr. Garrick.

Attributed To:

David Garrick

First Line:

When first in falling Greece's evil hour

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pp.122-124

Poem Title:

Prologue To The Upholsterer.

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First Line:

The jealous wife a comedy poor man

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pp.124-125

Poem Title:

Prologue To The Jealous Wife....Spoken By Mr. Garrick.

Attribution:

Written By Mr. Lloyd.

Attributed To:

Robert Lloyd

First Line:

Ladies I've had a squabble with the poet

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pp.116 [i.e. 126]-127

Poem Title:

Epilogue. Spoken By Mrs. Clive.

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

Tonight be it known to box galleries and pit

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pp.128-129

Poem Title:

Prologue To All In The Wrong.

Attribution:

Written And Spoken By Mr. Foote.

Attributed To:

Samuel Foote

First Line:

A grecian bard two thousand years ago

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pp.129-131

Poem Title:

Prologue To Hecuba ... Spoken by Mr. Garrick.

Attribution:

Written by Mr. Lloyd.

Attributed To:

Robert Lloyd

First Line:

Stripped of my tragic weeds and raised from death

Page No:

pp.131-132

Poem Title:

Epilogue...Spoken by Miss Bride.

Attribution:

Written By Mr. Garrick.

Attributed To:

David Garrick

First Line:

The deuce is in him what the deuce

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pp.133-135

Poem Title:

Prologue To The Deuce Is In Him. Spoken By Mr. King.

Attribution:

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First Line:

Bold was the man and fenced in every part

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pp.135-136

Poem Title:

Prologue To No One's Enemy But His Own.

Attribution:

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First Line:

The scribbling gentry ever frank and free

Page No:

pp.139-140

Poem Title:

Prologue To The School For Rakes. Spoken by Mr. King.

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First Line:

I long to know dear sirs with true submission

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pp.141-142

Poem Title:

Epilogue. Spoken By Mrs. Clive.

Attribution:

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First Line:

The law of custom is the law of fools

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pp.142-144

Poem Title:

Prologue To The Sisters ... Spoken by Mrs. Mattocks.

Attribution:

Written By Mr. Colman.

Attributed To:

George Colman

First Line:

What five long acts and all to make us wiser

Page No:

pp.144-146

Poem Title:

Epilogue...Spoken By Mrs. Bulkley.

Attribution:

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First Line:

When first the children of the muse began

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pp.146-147

Poem Title:

Prologue To The Fatal Discovery. Spoken By Mr. Barry.

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