Deliver thou me!
In my prison-house groaning,
I long but for Thee;
Languishing, moaning,
Bow'd down on bent knee,
I adore Thee, implore Thee,
From my sins set me free."
ALAN.
Aristophanes on the Modern Stage (Vol. iii., pp. 105. 250.).
—Finding that no correspondent of yours, in answer to a Query which appeared some time back, viz.: "Whether any play of Aristophanes had ever been adapted to the modern stage," has yet mentioned the only two instances of which I am aware, I beg to refer the Querist to the Plaideurs of Racine (an adaptation of the Wasps), and to a very ingenious modernisation of the Birds by Mr. Planché, produced about four years since at the Haymarket as an Easter piece, under its original title.