when it was acted at Drury Lane, April 13, 1713.

[return]

[Footnote 4:]

Johnson wrote the Prologue when Garrick opened Drury Lane, September 15, 1747, with

The Merchant of Venice

. "It is," says Genest (

English Stage

, vol. iv. p. 231), "the best Prologue that was ever written." Johnson wrote the Prologue to Milton's

Comus

, played at Drury Lane, April 5, 1750; to Goldsmith's