O Venus! thou queen of each alley and row, From Hackney to Southwark, from Sloane-Street to Bow, With your four-in-hand dove-whip chastise, if you can, That impudent, arrogant, slut, MARY ANN! Y-K AND A MARIA'S HEART, THE diamonds from Golconda's mine, To find those diamonds cease to shine For pearls that lie in ocean's caves, Let Indians dive beneath Would they thus dare the treacherous waves? Had they Maria's teeth? The coral from its rocky cell, The bold Sicilian strips Would he thus go where dangers dwell? To see Maria's lips?. But eyes, teeth, lips-alas, how strange! For what are eyes? the brighter they, They sparkle only to betray, And what are teeth? that look as white For like the snow in winter's night, And what are lips? they tempt to kiss, And what's a heart? when own'd by thee, Tho' Eastern monarchs proud may be, Maria, give but that to me, And I'll not envy them! P. G. LINES IMITATED FROM THE FRENCH. PHILLIS, whilst her heart untender, Gain preferr❜d to am'rous bliss, Made poor Corydon surrender When next she bargain'd with her lover, Phillis gladly now makes over Next when love no longer burns him, Phillis, oh! how strange the whim! All his thirty sheep returns him, Vain at length are all her offers, Sheep, dog, crook, (so chang'd her fate is,) June 16, 1809. THE THREE THINGS A GOOD WIFE OUGHT TO BE, AND THE THREE THINGS A GOOD WIFE OUGHT NOT TO BE. A WIFE, domestic, good, and pure, Like snail should keep within her door- A wife should be like echo true, Like a town-clock a wife should be, But not, like clocks, harangue so clear, Young man! if these allusions strike, E. C. BOILEAU NEWLY ADAPTED. Tou oncle, dis tu, Lâpassin, M'a guéri d'une maladie. La preuve qu'il ne fut jamais mon médecin, Puffing Brodum declares he cur'd me of the phthisic; J. P. S. MEMORANDA DRAMATICA. 1809. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. June 21. Wild Oats.-Obi. 22. Village Lawyer.-Love laughs at Locksmiths; Vigil, Mr. Taylor, and Captain Beldare, Mr. Jones, (first time).-Id. 23. Critic.-Barnaby Brittle, (revived).*-Id. 24. Beaux Stratagem.-Son-in-Law. Tom Thumb. 26. Iron Chest; Wilford, (first time,) Mr. Jones.-Love laughs at Locksmiths. 27. Stranger. Of Age To-morrow. 28. Battle of Hexham.-Barnaby Brittle.-Peeping Tom.t June * The jealousy of Barnaby is well hit off by Mr. Mathews—his scene at the window was an excellent piece of comic acting. Mrs. Gibbs' Waiting-woman, and Mr. Liston's Jeffery, were very effective, and Mrs. Glover played" Punchy" to the life. In this line she shews a wonderful deal of naiveté and cleverness. The farce of Barnaby Brittle, is taken from Betterton's Amorous Widow, or the Wanton Wife, which is "no more than a translation ad libitum of Moliere's George Dandin," although, as the play is printed with Betterton's life, the French ladder is entirely kicked down and unnoticed. If the original had never appeared, whatever the risible muscles might have lost, morality would have had no cause to complain. + Maud cannot, we should think, be acted better than it is by Mrs. Gibbs, and if it could, we should hesitate about the change, for it is a million to one that no other actress would look half so pretty in the character. Crazy and the Mayor find very fair representatives in Mr. Grove and Mr. Noble; but a mutual change of parts would better correspond with their particular figures and faces. Poor Peeping Tom is badly off. After the Toms we have seen, this is very flat indeed. Here Mr. Mathews is again out of his latitude, no part being very good, except the scene with the lady sleeping. He sung the Wry-mouthed Family, as if he had an interest in bringing the song into discredit. Through the tender care and parsimony of Mr Winston, a particular |