Timour the Tartar
and the horses. The Prologue, by Colman the Younger, attacks the passion for German plays and animal actors:
"Your taste, recover'd half from foreign quacks,
Takes airings, now, on English horses' backs;
While every modern bard may raise his name,
If not on lasting praise, on stable fame."
At the Lyceum, during the season 1811-12,
Quadrupeds, or the Manager's Last Kick
, in which the tailors were mounted on asses and mules, was given by the Drury Lane Company with success. It was this introduction of animal performers which Byron wished to attack.
[cross-reference: return to Footnote 1 of Letter 255]
The following are the lines in Johnson's