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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: 100 CHAP. V. A BOLD STROKE FOR A WIFE. Farquhar. An old man broken with the ftorras of war, Is come to lay his weary bones among ye; Give him a little earth for charity! Henry The Eighth.'' I fwear to thee by Cupid's ftrongeft bow, In that fome place thon haft appointed me, To morrow truly will I meet thee. Midsummer Night's Driam. I-ove scenes form the principal part of modern novels; romantic descriptions of that' nature, serve to swell the pages of a fictitious story, but 5n the relation of facts, abounding with incidents, numerous and singular, these auxiliaries are unnecessary, and by being slightly passed over, the sensible reader will be saved the mortification of wading through countless pages of sighs, groans, delicate embarrasments, blushes, and silly circumstances, and situations, that lovers like to lead about, and some authors, to dwell upon; for my own part, I frankly acknowi.dge, it siiitetl) me not; myjuveuile readers must pardon me, if I endeavour to compress tin's part of my life, into as small a compass as the necessary connection, and thread of the story will permit. The manager was soon re-instated in his barn, and plays and farces were exhibited, in a stile never before seen in Saddleworth?or perhaps any where else. One evening, I accompanied Mr. K.and his family, to see the Play of Hamlet. The manager presided at the receipt of custom, and, that no time might be lost, he was armed cap-a-pee for the representative of the Royal Dane. The play was performed, according to my slender judgment, very well, with the exception of a few doubles, as the manager called them, and some deficiency. in costume: during the fight between Hamlet, and Laertes, some young men stood up, when a French dancing...