Their laft, laft look The bitterness of death

Is paft-and the world now is nothing [Exeunt Effex, &c. The Queen, again relenting, bids Nottingham hafte to top Effex's execution. As the gives her directions, the fees Rutland. -Rutland, come to thy repentant mistress: See the Queen bends to take thee to her bofom,

And fofter thee for ever..

Rutland is quite frantic and difordered in her fenfes, and, the Queen defiring proper care to be taken of her, at the fame time an Officer comes with a billet, Effex had requefted time to write, having earnestly conjured him to deliver it into her royal hands. QUEEN. Quick-what is here!

take this fignet,

juft Heaven! fly,

Stop execution, fly with eagle's wings

Cecil, thou do'ft not know what thou hast done

Pronounc'd fentence of death upon thy Queen.

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Cecil-I will no more afcend my throne, The humble floor hall ferve me; here I'll fit

With moaping melancholy my companion,
'Till death unmark'd approach, and steal me
to my grave.

Cecil-I never more will clofe these eyes
In fleep, nor tafte of food and Cecil now,
Mark me- - you hear Elifabeth's last words.

EPILOGUE, written by Mr. Garrick. Spoken by Mrs. Pritchard, in the character of Queen Elifabeth.

If any here are Britons, but in name,
Dead to their country's happiness and fame,
Let 'em depart this moment,-let 'em fly
My awful prefence, and my fearching eye!

No more your Queen, but upright judge I

Your laws are good, your lawyers good of course; The ftreams are furely clear, when clear the fource:

In greater store thefe bleffings now are sent ye;
Where I had one attorney, you have twenty.
Fashions, ye fair, deferve nor praise nor blame,
Unless they rife as foes to sense or shame;
Wear ruffs or gauze-but let your skill be such,
Rather to fhew too little than too much.
As for your valeur,-here my lips I close-
Let thofe who beft have prov'd it-speak-your
foes.

Your morals, church, and state are still behind,
But foft-prophetic fury fills my mind,
Holding the fceptre of this happy land;
I fee through time-behold a youthful hand,
Whose heart with juftice, love, and virtue fraught,
Born amongst Britons, and by Britons taught;
Shall make the barking tongues of faction cease,
And weave the garland of domestic peace.
Long fhall he reign-no ftorms to beat his breaft,
Unruly paffions, that difturb'd my rest!
Shall live, the bleffings he bestows to share,
Reap all my glory, but without my care,

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HE play begins as before, nor is there any alteration through the whole firft act, but the addition of a fcene fucceeding that between the fervants, and previous to Mrs. Lovemore's appearance.-This fcene is between Mr. Lovemore and Sir Brilliant Fashion, and is defigned only to introduce, to the acquaintance of the audience, the character of Sir Bafhful Conftant, who is defcribed by them, what he afterwards appears to be, a man whofe fole guide of conduct is the opinion of the world; and who, having been originally deftined to a small fortune and narrow circle of acquaintance, but raifed to higher life by marrying a woman of fashion and understanding, is to diffident of his own opinion, that he blushes at being caught in the exercise even of a right action, left the world fhould blame him for not being as vicious as itself; and, though intrinfically good-natured, and really fond of his wife, is perpetually and publicly treating her ill, from the fear of being laughed at for being uxorious.-This defcription is confirmed by his appearance, in which he pretends not to care for his Lady, and in forms Mr. Lovemore of a quarrel that he had with her that morning about a mercer's bill, which he had refufed her the money to pay, in order to fhew his authority and spirit; but which, however, he had himself fince privately paid, with an injunction to the mercer, that neither his wife, nor the world, fhould be made acquainted with it. He then mentions to Lovemore an important fecret which he had to divulge to him as the only friend he can confide in; but, being interrupted, before he can difclofe it, by the return of Sir Brilliant Fafhion, who had been fent by Lovemore to his wife, he makes an appointment for Lovemore to call on him at home; and with his exit ends the scene: In the previous courfe of which however it is apparent, that both Lovemore and Sir Brilliant have designs on Lady Conftant.-The fcene between Mrs. Lovemore and Sir Brilliant, of Mr. Lovemore's coldness to his wife, and the enfuing one between Muflin and her mistress, are no otherwife altered than by rendering Sir Brilliant's narrative and amorous tenders more connected than they were, and, by a fhortening of the whole, to make room for the preceding scene ;-and the act ends exactly as formerly.

The fecond act is intirely new, and therefore will require a more particular account. It opens by a scene in Sir Bafhful's house,

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in which that Gentleman, on various cards being delivered to him by his fervants of invitations to his Lady from different perfons of quality, evinces by his behaviour his great fatisfaction in the regard fhewn to her by others, and in the dignity fhe maintains in herfelf; yet, in confequence of his general character, affects to be greatly displeased with her conduct, and, on her coming in, enters into a quarrel with her, exclaiming, in high and authoritative terms, against her riot, folly, and extravagance. As foon however as the fervants are difmiffed, he lowers his tone, foftens his manner, and is on the point of making her a prefent of three hundred pounds, when the approach of his footman with a meffage roufes again his defire of appearing a rigid husband to the world, and he flies out once more into an apparent violence of temper, which the Lady considering as a degree of madness, and no longer able to endure, leaves him to give vent to it by himself.-Lovemore then enters, to whom, after a great parade, and a ftruggle between shame and neceffity, he at length divulges the important fecret, which he had been fo long labouring with, viz. that he is over head and ears in love with

his own wife. - Blushing and confused however at having made this declaration, he is re encouraged by Lovemore, who affures him it is exactly his own cafe; but that he makes it a rule not to let his wife know, by the least hint, the fondness he has for her. On this, Sir Bafhful tells him of the three hundred pounds he is defirous of presenting to Lady Conftant, intreating the favour of him to perfuade her to accept of it, as a loan from himself; which he, thinking it may be a means of forwarding his own defign on that Lady, readily confents to do, and propofes to go immediately to her Ladyship for that purpose.-While he is away, Sir Brilliant comes in, whom Sir Bashful, that Lovemote may meet with no interruption, refuses admittance to his Lady.-Sir Brilliant however tells him, that the principal intent of this vifit was only to inform Lady Conftant of a moft laughable piece of news, of Sir Amorous la Foole, who had lately fallen in love with his own wife; that a wit had intro-" duced the character into a comedy, which would fhortly be acted; and that he himfelf was on the wing to spread the account of it all over the town; concluding with a requeft, that he would instantly communicate it to his Lady and Mr. Lovemore, to both of whom it guft needs appear in the most ri

diculous

diculous and contemptible light.-The consciou (ness of resemblance in this circumftance to his own cafe, and the fear of detection which Sir Bashful has an opportunity of fhewing, produces a fcene on his fide truly comic, and which is painted in very high and ftrong colours. Mr. Lovemore, on his entrance, gives an account of his fuccefs with the Lady, in regard to her acceptance of the money; and Sir Bashful alfo acquaints him, that he had ordered a pair of diamond buckles, and a cross, which Lady Conftant had been long folliciting him for, and which, as her husband, he had pofitively and reproachfully refused her, to be fent home to her by a jeweller, as from an unknown hand; her acceptance of which he intends to make a pretence for feeming jealoufy.-And with this scene the act closes.

The third act is no otherwife altered from the fecond act of the farce, than by very properly fhortening the long-winded advice given to Mrs. Lovemore by the widow; by curtailing alfo fome part of the scene between the latter and Lord Etheridge; and by a fubstitution of a fong, which is much better adapted to the occafion than that which was formerly fung in it.-See this fong in our laft Supplement.

The fourth act is alfo new, and begins with a long scene between Lovemore's foot man, William, and the widow Bellmour's maid, Mignionet, in confequence of Mrs. Bellmour's having forbid Mr. Lovemore admittance. It then changes to Sir Bafhful's house, in which Lady Conftant entering, with her maid, takes notice of her having received a prefent from fome one, but which the had returned to the perfon from whom she imagined it to come.-Sir Bafhful then comes in to her, and endeavours, by rude and imperious behaviour, to urge her to mention the receipt of the buckles and cross, but in vain, his treatment only provoking her to acquaint him with her determination to part, for which purpofe fhe has already employed Council, and had the articles of feparation drawn up; and with this refolution the leaves him.-He, now feeing himfelf on the point of lofing her, can find no other method of preventing it, than by throwing off the mask, and making an open declaration of his love to herself.-But how to do it is the point.-A letter is at length fixed on, as the propereft medium, and he fits down to write it; but as Sideboard, the footman, is waiting for it, he pulls out a news paper, and on reading it to himself burts out a laughing. This alarms his matter, who, apprehenfive that he had been listening, and had overheard his real fentiments, infists on knowing the cause of his

laughter; which, however, appears to be an article in the news, importing that a comedy was in rehearsal, and would fpeedily be acted, by the name of, The amorous husband, or a man in love with his own wife.'-This renews his confufion, and is near putting a ftop to his defign; love however gets the better, and he finishes his epiftle; but, fealing it up haftily, and giving it to the footman without a direction, he, on finding his mistake, recollecting that a letter from himfelf to his wife would make his fervants fufpect fomething, takes it back again; and, on Lovemore's coming in, acquaints him with the affair, and intreats him to write the direction, and fend it as (in appearance to the meffenger) from himfelf.-Lovemore, to whofe defigns Sir Bafhful's behaviour had hitherto been favourable, but which this ftep muft intirely overthrow, is now put to his laft fhift; but, a fortunate abfence of Sir Bafhful giving him a little time, he breaks open the letter, and, writing another very warm one, in his own name, to the Lady, feals it and directs it, and, by Sir Bashful's order, delivers it to the footman, for his Lady.

Sir Bafhful and Lovemore watch the delivery and reception of the letter, but from different motives; and, to the great furprise of both, they fee Lady Conftant tear it to pieces, and with great indignity trample it under foot.-Whilft they are fixed in aftonifhment at this event, which each of them equally confiders as the deftruction of is hopes, Sis Brilliant Fashion enters, and with great joy and extacy fhews them a pair of diamond buckles, which he has just received as a prefent from fome unknown Lady, which the two Gentlemen at firit fight know to be the fame, that, by their contrivance, had been sent to Lady Constant, and which it appears, from the former scene, the muft have fent to him, as fuppofing him the concealed giver of them.-This discovery, however, greatly chagrins and alarms the jealoufy of both, and occafions a scene, which is greatly heightened by the entrance of Lady Conftant, to reproach Mr. Lovemore with his bafenefs; when, instead of the eclairciffement which Lovemore is apprehensive of, Sir Bashful takes his part against the Lady, declares the letter fent by his direction, as a trial only of her difpofition; profeffes the contents of it to be intirely falfe, and, blinded himself by a feries of crofs purpofes, prevents any kind of explanation of the affair; and, in confequence of fome very grofs behaviour from both to the Lady, the leaves them, in order to go to Mrs. Lovemore's rout, to which the has been invited, with a determination on her fide, and indeed now on Sir

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Bashful's,

Bathful's, of parting, never to meet again. After he is gone, however, and Mr. Lovemore has left his friend alone, he calls to mind the torm letter, of which, feeing the fragments lying in the next room, he refolves to make himself mafter of them, to prevent the ridicule which he imagines he must incur from the world's being acquainted with his having confefied a fondness for his wife, and his exit for that purpofe ends the act.

The laft act, which naturally winds up the plot, and reftores the characters to their proper connections, is very little different from the third act of the farce.-The circumftance of Sir Bafhful's producing Lovemore's letter to his wife, at the fame time that that Gentleman is upbraiding Sir Bril

liant for the very fame action, as the moft ungenerous thing a man could be guilty of, is judicious, and greatly adds to Lovemore's confufion; as does alfo his meeting Lady Conftant in the clofet, to which he flies for refuge from the other two Ladies; nor ought we to omit mentioning, that the piece undoubtedly clofes much better by the intire omiffion of the fcene of Mrs. Muflin's reproaches of her master, and related converfation with her curiofity, which before intruded itself into the developement of the laft act: And Sir Bafhful's reconcilement with his wife, as soon as he perceives Lovemore not afhamed of the fame, is confiftent with his whole character.

LONDON, the metropolis of Great

Britain, and one of the largest and richest cities upon earth, is of fuch antiquity that it is impoffible to give any certain account of its origin. It probably exifted in the time of the ancient Britons, before the art of writing was brought into England, and when there were no other monuments of ancient facts than what were found in the fongs of the bards, which were preferved only by memory.

It would be ridiculous therefore to lay any ftrefs on the fabulous tales of Geffrey of Monmouth, who pretends that it was founded by Brutus, the fecond nephew of the famous Æneas, and called Trinovantum, or New Troy, and that it was at length walled by King Lud, when it obtained the name of Caer Lud, or Lud's Town. Upon which fuppofitions fome of our later hiftorians have had the weakness to compute, that it had its origin 1107 years before the birth of Christ, 600 years before the fall of the Affyrian empire by the death of Belfhazzar, and 350 before the building of Rome.

But to leave thefe fabulous tales. Camden fuppofes that this city derived the name of London from the British words Llhwn, a wood, and Dinas, a town; by which etymology of the word, London fignifies, a town in a wood: This exactly agrees with the manner in which the Britons formed their towns, by building them in the midst of woods, and fencing them with trees cut down; but, left this derivation fhould not please, the fame learned writer gives another, from the British word Lhong, a fhip, and Dinas, a city, and then the word London will fignify a city or harbour for fhips; and,

indeed, it has been fuppofed, by many learn

ed authors, that, before Cæfar's time, London was the ancient emporium, or mart of the British trade, with the Phoenicians, Greeks, and Gauls.

London had however no buildings, either of brick or ftone, till it was inhabited by the Romans; for the dwellings of the Britons were only huts formed of twigs wattled together: However, Tacitus obferves, that, in the year 26, Londinum was very famous for the multitude of its merchants and the greatness of its traffic; but, foon after, Suetonius abandoned the city to the fury of Boadicea, because it was too large to be defended by his little army of 10,000 Romans; which is certainly a proof of its being even then of a confiderable extent. That British Prince's however burnt this great city, and put all the inhabitants to the fword.

London foon recovered from this dreadful catastrophe, and in a few years increased fo much in the number of its inhabitants, its trade, and buildings, that Herodian, in the life of the Emperor Severus, calls it a great and wealthy city; and about this time it changed the name of Londinum for that of Augufta, probably from its being the capital of the British dominions, and was made a prefecture by the Romans, in imitation of Rome itself; but it foon after changed the name of Augufta for that of Caer-Llundain.

It will not be improper here to obferve, that a difpute has arisen about the fituation of this city in these early times; the reverend and learned Dr. Gale, Dean of York, and Mr. Salmon, having offered many arguments to prove that it was a Roman ftation erected in St. George's Fields, to secure their

conquests