Proud and mean, and sad and gay,
Toiling after ease, are they,
Infamous, and boasting fame.
----------------
PLAYERS.
They arrive in the Borough - Welcomed by their former Friends - Are better fitted for Comic than Tragic Scenes: yet better approved in the latter by one Part of their Audience - Their general Character and Pleasantry - Particular Distresses and Labours - Their Fortitude and Patience - A private rehearsal - The Vanity of the aged Actress - A Heroine from the Milliner’s Shop - A deluded Tradesman - Of what Persons the Company is composed - Character and Adventures of Frederick Thompson.
DRAWN by the annual call, we now behold
Our Troop Dramatic, heroes known of old,
And those, since last they march’d, enlisted and enrolled:
Mounted on hacks or borne in waggons some,