and his Cat, and that in order to it, there had been got together a great Quantity of Mice; but Mr.
Rich
, the Proprietor of the Play-House, very prudently considered that it would be impossible for the Cat to kill them all, and that consequently the Princes of his Stage might be as much infested with Mice, as the Prince of the Island was before the Cat's arrival upon it; for which Reason he would not permit it to be Acted in his House.
indeed I cannot blame him; for, as he said very well upon that Occasion, I do not hear that any of the Performers in our Opera, pretend to equal the famous Pied Piper, who made all the Mice of a great Town in
Germany
follow his Musick, and by that means cleared the Place of those little Noxious Animals.
I dismiss this Paper, I must inform my Reader, that I hear there is a Treaty on Foot with