“Oh the days when I was young!”
The type of the long lines in the original bill, which is of a small folio size, being too small to be read without spectacles, I have necessarily, in some instances, been obliged to increase the number of lines in the following copy.
“THEATRE, IPSWICH.
POSITIVELY FOR ONE NIGHT ONLY.
Patronised by their Majesties,
Before whom Mr. Bannister had the honour of performing,
At the Queen’s House, Frogmore.
The Public are most respectfully informed,
On Wednesday, the 29th of November, 1809,
Will be presented,
A Miscellaneous Divertisement,
With considerable vocal and rhetorical variations, called
BANNISTER’S BUDGET;
Or, An Actor’s Ways and Means!
Consisting of
Recitations and Comic Songs;
Which will be sung and spoken by
Mr. Bannister, of the late Theatre Royal, Drury Lane.
“The above Divertisement is entirely new; the prose and verse which compose it having been written expressly for the occasion of Mr. Bannister’s Tour, by Messrs. Colman, Reynolds, Cherry, T. Dibdin, C. Dibdin, Jun., and others.