At a matinée you shall show!”

Then each of us fwom gay Belgwaviah

Thinks himself the Stage’s saviah;

And all our fwiends their plaudits thunder,

Voting each of us a wonder.

Pro’s and Public.

When Billy Shakespeare ruled the stage

In good Queen Bess’s reign,

The swells did not to act attempt;

But they wern’t then, as now, exempt