rehearsal of it, an actor, who was principally concerned in the piece, and though young, was then in the advantage of happy requisites, told Mr. Fielding “he was apprehensive the audience would make free with him in a particular passage; and, therefore, begged it might be omitted."-"No," replied the bard, "d-n them, let them find it out." The play was brought on unaltered, and just as had been foreseen the audience was provoked. It was only acted six nights.Murphy.

Churchill observes of Mrs. Clive:

First giggling, prattling, chambermaids arrive,
Hoydens and romps, led on by General Clive;
In spite of outward blemishes, she shone,
For humour famed, and humour all her own.
Easy, as if at home, the Stage she trod,

Nor sought the critic's praise, nor fear'd his rod;
Original in spirit, and in ease,

She pleased by hiding all attempts to please,

No comic actress ever yet could raise

On humour's base, more merit, or more praise.

i.

No two women of high rank hated one another more unreservedly than these two mighty Dames, Mrs. Clive and Mrs. Woffington: the passions of each were as high and lofty as those of a first Duchess; but they wanted the courtly art of concealing them. Mrs. Clive acted so naturally the woman of quality in Garrick's Lethe, that she entered into all the reigning irregularities and fopperies of the times, and gave great vivacity, humour, whim, and variety, to the inimitable action in Lady Riot. She was frank, open, and impetuous: what came uppermost in her mind she spoke without reserve. Mrs. Woffington was well bred, and mistress of herself: she often blunted the sharp speeches of Clive, by apparently civil, but deep sar

"castic replies, and arch severity. In the Widow Blackacre she found a proper subject to display a rich vein of humour; her comic abilities have not been excelled: she was so formed by nature to represent a variety of lively, laughing, droll, humourous, affected, and absurd characters, that it may be observed, that she had such a stock of comic force about her, as soon as she had perfected herself in the words, nature performed the rest: many dramatic pieces are now lost to the Stage from want of her animating spirit. To a strong and melodious voice, with an ear to music, she added the sprightly action requisite to parts in ballad Farces. Mr. Horace Walpole wrote her farewell Epilogue.

SQUIRE SANDYS'S BUDGET OPEN'D,

OR

DRINK AND BE DD;

A NEW BALLAD:

To the Tune of "A Begging we will go."

ATTEND, my honest brethren,
Who late came into place;

I'll tell you a new project,

To win our master's grace.

As a drinking we do go, &c.

An army from Hanover

We'll take into our pay;
And Britons, to support them,

Shall drink their lives away.

VOL. II.

As a drinking they do go, &c..

N

From Statesmen to Excisemen,

All Placemen may drink wine; But tatter'd squires, and merchants, Shall swill up Gin like swine.

When a drinking they do go, &c.

And should Old England perish,
Why e'en let it be so;

For ev'ry man she loses,

We turn-coats lose a foe.

Then a drinking they may go, &c.

'Tis true, when Walpole ruled,

We bellow'd loud at Gin;

But now it is no evil,

For we are now come in.

And a drinking all shall go, &c.

No more shall sober Britons
Pronounce us fools and knaves;

Their note shall quickly alter,
We'll make them drunken slaves.

And a drinking they shall go, &c.

Behold, how shoals of beggars
Now crowd up ev'ry door,
"T will greatly raise the poor-rates-
Let's poison all the poor.

While a drinking they do go, &c.

The people all complain,

That by trade they nothing get;

Then let them sit and drink,
They will drink us out of debt.

As a drinking they do go, &c.

And should the war continue,
What cause have we to fear?
To licence theft and murder,
We'll raise a fund next year.
So a drinking we will

Then welcome all my Finches,*

go, &c.

With their black funereal face; "Ah, Bat you had been welcome,

"If pledged by his grace."

As a drinking we do go, &c.