Macb. What mean you?
Lady M.Why, at such things you a muff are!
Macb. You wouldn't have me spifflicate the buffer?
I must think more of this.
Lady M.Look (so thou wilt less
Suspicion rouse) particularly guiltless—
Leave all the rest to me.
Macb. The rest? Don't fret at all;—
If I do this, no rest for me—you'll get it all.
Then they sing a duet, to the tune of "There's a good time coming":—
Lady M. There's a good chance coming, Sam—
A good chance coming!
If the King comes here to-day,
We're not such flats as throw away
The good chance coming!
Macb.But, my love, it's very wrong—
Nothing could be wronger
Than such a thing——
Lady M. Well, hold your tongue,
And wait a little longer!
The first burlesque of "The Tempest" made its appearance at the Adelphi in 1848. It was from the pen of the Brothers Brough, and was entitled "The Enchanted Isle, or Raising the Wind on the most Approved Principles." "O." Smith was Prospero, with Miss Taylor as his daughter Miranda; Miss Woolgar being the Ferdinand, with Paul Bedford for her father—the Ariel Mme. Celeste, and the Caliban Munyard. Some years were destined to elapse before the subject again attracted the burlesque writer; and the writer then was Mr. Burnand, who gave to his work the name of "Ariel," submitting it to the public in 1883 at the Gaiety. Miss Ellen Farren took the title-part, with Mr. Henry Monkhouse as Prospero, Mr. Frank Wyatt as Sebastian, Mr. Dallas as Alonso, and Miss Connie Gilchrist as Miranda. This "perversion" was in three acts, and was one of the productions which led the way to the New Burlesque.