| Camilla. | That Dorinda's my Name. |
| Linco. | Well, I know't, I'll take care. |
| Camilla. | And my Life scarce of late — |
| Linco. | You need not repeat. |
| Prenesto. | Help me! oh help me! |
| A wild Boar struck by Prenesto. | |
| Huntsman. | Let's try to assist him. |
| Linco. | Ye Gods, what Alarm! |
| Huntsman. | Quick run to his aid. |
| Enter Prenesto: The Boar pursuing him. | |
| Prenesto. | O Heav'ns! who defends me? |
| Camilla. | My Arm. |
| She throws a Dart, and kills the Boar. | |
| Linco. | Dorinda of nothing afraid, She's sprightly and gay, a valiant Maid, And as bright as the Day. |
| Camilla. | Take Courage, Hunter, the Savage is dead. |
Katherine Tofts, the daughter of a person in the family of Bishop Burnet, had great natural charms of voice, person, and manner. Playing with Nicolini, singing English to his Italian, she was the first of our
prime donne in
Italian Opera. Mrs. Tofts had made much money when in 1709 she quitted the stage with disordered intellect; her voice being then unbroken, and her beauty in the height of its bloom. Having recovered health, she married Mr. Joseph Smith, a rich patron of arts and collector of books and engravings, with whom she went to Venice, when he was sent thither as English Consul. Her madness afterwards returned, she lived, therefore, says Sir J. Hawkins,
'sequestered from the world in a remote part of the house, and had a large garden to range in, in which she would frequently walk, singing and giving way to that innocent frenzy which had seized her in the earlier part of her life.'
She identified herself with the great princesses whose loves and sorrows she had represented in her youth, and died about the year 1760.
The
Emperor of the Moon