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