Our wit as far does foreign wit excel,

And, like a king, should in a palace dwell.

But we with golden hopes are vainly fed,

Talk high, and entertain you in a shed:

Your presence here, for which we humbly sue,

Will grace old theatres, and build up new.


[PROLOGUE]
FOR
THE WOMEN, WHEN THEY ACTED AT THE OLD THEATRE, LINCOLN'S-INN-FIELDS.