If these suggested a too prompt resource
To the resourceless mother? "Try the Stage,
And so escape starvation! Prejudice
Defames Mimetic Art: be yours to prove
That gold and dross may meet and never mix,
Purity plunge in pitch yet soil no plume!"
All was prepared in London—(you conceive
The natural shrinking from publicity
In Paris, where the name excites remark)—
London was ready for the grand début;