Lucri bonus est odor ex re Qualibet
" (
Sat
. xiv. 204) may have been true; but, as the dressing-room of the equine comedians was under the orchestra, the stench on the first night was to the audience intolerable. At the same theatre, April 29, 1811, the horses were again brought on the stage in Lewis's
Timour the Tartar
. At the same theatre, on the following December 26, a live elephant appeared. The novelty had, however, been anticipated in the Dublin Theatre during the season of 1771-72 (Genest's
English Stage
, vol. viii. p. 287). At the Haymarket, and Drury Lane, the introduction of live animals was ridiculed.
The Quadrupeds of Quedlinburgh
was given at the Haymarket, July 26, 1811, as a burlesque on