“I dream’t that, wearied with his task,
The actor, feeling bad,
Had ceased to act, it was a fact,
For, when I woke he had!
“The curtain dropt, but few had stopt,
And I was one of these;
A girl did come, who lookèd glum,
And said, ‘it’s over please.’
“‘Thanks girl,’ said I, and checked a sigh,
The news thou bring’st is sweet;