That our dead stage, revived by your fair eyes,
Under a female regency may rise.
PROLOGUE
TO
THE MISTAKES.
This play was brought forward by Joseph Harris, a comedian, as his own, although it is said to have been chiefly written by another person. It was acted in 1690.
Enter Mr Bright.
Gentlemen, we must beg your pardon; here's no prologue to be had to-day. Our new play is like to come on, without a frontispiece; as bald as one of you young beaux without your periwig. I left our young poet, snivelling and sobbing behind the scenes, and cursing somebody that has deceived him.
Enter Mr Bowen.