But you know you’re not so true, love,
As childhood’s lovers were!
W. M. Praed.
June, 1833.
The Nelson Column Drama.
The earliest announcements of the late Covent Garden management was a piece entitled “Trafalgar Square, or the Nelson Monument.” We have obtained the following slight information respecting it. The drama is described as “a grand architectural and historical burletta,” in two acts; and the prologue was to have been spoken by Mr. Widdicomb, as Time. The two acts comprise the commencement and completion, and a lapse of twenty years is supposed to take place between them, in which time “the boy,” who is the principal character, becomes a middle-aged man.
The following duet is introduced by the boy and the man in the second act:—
Boy.
I remember, I remember,