Harlequin Dr. Faustus

at Drury Lane in 1723, and of

The Necromancer, or the History of Dr. Faustus

at Lincoln's Inn Fields in December of the same year. On December 7, 1732, Rich opened the new theatre at Covent Garden, of which he remained manager till his death in 1761.

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[Footnote 3:]

The form of this couplet, as printed, is as follows:

"Till blackening ashes and lonely wall
Usurp'd the Muse's realm, and mark'd her fall."

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