It sure has robb’d you of your bile;

For now, methinks, you deign to smile.”

Syntax.—

“The thing is droll, and aptly bent

To raise a vulgar merriment:

But Merry-Andrews, seen as such,

Have often made me laugh as much.

An actor does but play the fool

When he forsakes old Shakespeare’s rule,

And lets his own foul nonsense out,