[a]

short Coat, and

Norris

in a long one, seldom fail of this Effect

[5]

. In ordinary Comedies, a broad and a narrow brim'd Hat are different Characters. Sometimes the Wit of the Scene lies in a Shoulder-belt, and Sometimes in a Pair of Whiskers.

[A]

Lover running about the Stage, with his Head peeping out of a Barrel, was thought a very good Jest in King

Charles

the Second's time; and invented by one of the first Wits of that Age