The Mask in Act v of The Amorous Prince is in its purport most palpably akin to the Elizabethans.
[THEATRICAL HISTORY.]
The Amorous Prince was produced by the Duke’s Company in the spring of 1671 at their Lincoln’s Inn Fields theatre, whence they migrated in November of the same year to the magnificent new house in Dorset Garden. No performers’ names are given to the comedy, which met with a very good reception. It seems to have kept the boards awhile, but there is no record of any particular revival.
THE AMOROUS PRINCE.
[PROLOGUE.]
Well! you expect a Prologue to the Play,
And you expect it too Petition-way;
With Chapeau bas beseeching you t’ excuse
A damn’d Intrigue of an unpractis’d Muse;
Tell you it’s Fortune waits upon your Smiles,