PLAYHOUSE MUSINGS.

BY S. T. C.[45]

Ille velut fidis arcana sodalibus olim

Credebat libris; neque si male cesserat, usquam

Decurrens alio, neque si bene.

Horace.

My pensive Public, wherefore look you sad?

I had a grandmother, she kept a donkey

To carry to the mart her crockery ware,

And when that donkey look'd me in the face,