Phœb. From Jove's imperial court, Where all the gods resort,]

In awful counsel met,

Surprising news I bear;

Albion the great

Must change his seat,

For he is adopted there.

Venus. What stars above shall we displace? Where shall he fill a room divine?

Nept. Descended from the sea-gods' race,
Let him by my Orion shine.

Phob. No, not by that tempestuous sign;
Betwixt the Balance and the Maid,
The just,
August,

And peaceful shade,

-Shall shine in heaven with beams displayed,
While great Albanius is on earth obeyed.
Venus. Albanius, lord of land and main,
Shall with fraternal virtues reign ;
And add his own,

To fill the throne;

Adored and feared, and loved no less;

In war victorious, mild in peace,

The joy of man, and Jove's increase.

Acac. O thou! who mountest the æthereal throne,

Be kind and happy to thy own;

Now Albion is come,

The people of the sky

Run gazing, and cry,-Make room,

Make room, make room,

Make room for our new deity!

Here ALBION mounts the machine, which moves up

ward slowly.

A full chorus of all that ACACIA sung.

Ven. Behold what triumphs are prepared to grace Thy glorious race,

Where love and honour claim an equal place;
Already they are fixed by fate,

And only ripening ages wait.

The Scene changes to a Walk of very high trees; at the end of the Walk is a view of that part of Windsor, which faces Eton; in the midst of it is a row of small trees, which lead to the Castle-Hill. In the first scene, part of the Town and part of the Hill. In the next, the Terrace Walk: the King's lodgings, and the upper part of St George's chapel, then the keep; and, lastly, that part of the Castle beyond the keep.

In the air is a vision of the Honours of the Garter ; the Knights in procession, and the King under a canopy; beyond this, the upper end of St George's

hall.

FAME rises out of the middle of the Stage, standing on a Globe, on which is the Arms of England: the Globe rests on a Pedestal; on the front of the Pedestal is drawn a Man with a long, lean, pale face, with fiends' wings, and snakes twisted round his body; he is encompassed by several fanatical rebellious heads, who suck poison from him, which runs out of a tap in his side.*

* "I must not," says Langbaine, "take the pains to acquaint my reader, that by the man on the pedestal, &c. is meant the late Lord Shaftesbury. I shall not pretend to pass my censure, whether he deserved this usage from our author or no, but leave it to the judgments of statesmen and politicians." Shaftesbury having been overturned in a carriage, received some internal injury which required a constant discharge by an issue in his side. Hence he was ridiculed under the name of Tapski. In a mock account of an apparition, stated to have appeared to Lady Gray, it says, "Bid Lord Shaftesbury have a care to his spigot-if he is tapt, all

Fame. Renown, assume thy trumpet !

From pole to pole resounding

Great Albion's name;

Great Albion's name shall be

The theme of Fame, shall be great Albion's name, Great Albion's name, great Albion's name.

Record the garter's glory;

A badge for heroes, and for kings to bear;
For kings to bear!

And swell the immortal story,

With songs of Gods, and fit for Gods to hear;
And swell the immortal story,

With songs of Gods, and fit for Gods to hear;
For Gods to hear.

A full Chorus of all the Voices and Instruments ; trumpets and hautboys make Ritornello's of all FAME sings; and twenty-four Dancers, all the time in a chorus, and dance to the end of the Opera.

the plot will run out." Ralph's History, vol. i. p. 562. from a pamphlet in Lord Somers' collection. There are various allusions to this circumstance in the lampoons of the time. A satire called "The Hypocrite," written by Carryl, concludes thus:

His body thus and soul together vie,
In vice's empire for the sovereignty;
In ulcers shut this does abound in sin,
Lazar without and Lucifer within.
The silver pipe is no sufficient drain
For the corruption of this little man ;
Who, though he ulcers have in every part,

Is no where so corrupt as in his heart.

At length, in prosecution of this coarse and unhandsome jest, a sort of vessel with a turn-cock was constructed for holding wine, which was called a Shaftesbury, and used in the taverns of the royal party.

EPILOGUE.

After our Esop's fable shown to-day,
I come to give the moral of the play.

Feigned Zeal, you saw, set out the speedier pace;
But the last heat, Plain Dealing won the race:
Plain Dealing for a jewel has been known;
But ne'er till now the jewel of a crown.

When heaven made man, to show the work divine,
Truth was his image, stamped upon the coin:
And when a king is to a God refined,

On all he says and does he stamps his mind:
This proves a soul without alloy, and pure;
Kings, like their gold, should every touch endure.
To dare in fields is valour; but how few
Dare be so throughly valiant,-to be true!
The name of great, let other kings affect:
He's great indeed, the prince that is direct.
His subjects know him now, and trust him more
Than all their kings, and all their laws before.
What safety could their public acts afford?
Those he can break; but cannot break his word.
So great a trust to him alone was due;
Well have they trusted whom so well they knew.
The saint, who walked on waves, securely trod,
While he believed the beck'ning of his God;
But when his faith no longer bore him out,
Began to sink, as he began to doubt.
Let us our native character maintain;
"Tis of our growth, to be sincerely plain.
To excel in truth we loyally may strive,
Set privilege against prerogative:

He plights his faith, and we believe him just;
His honour is to promise, ours to trust.

Thus Britain's basis on a word is laid,

As by a word the world itself was made †.

From this Epilogue we learn, what is confirmed by many proofs elsewhere, that the attribute for which James desired to be distinguished and praised, was that of openness of purpose, and stern undeviating inflexibility of conduct. He scorned to disguise his designs, either upon the religion or the constitution of his country. He forgot that it was only the temporising concessions of his brother which secured his way to the throne, when his exclusion, or a civil war, seemed the only alternatives. His brother was the reed, which bent before the whirlwind, and recovered its erect posture when it had passed away; and James, the inflexible oak, which the first tempest rooted up for ever.