Produced by Robert Cicconetti, Mary Meehan, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) _A Pirate of Parts_ _By RICHARD NEVILLE_ _"One man in his time plays many parts."_ --SHAKESPEARE NEW YORK The Neale Publishing Company 1913 Copyright, 1913, by The Neale Publishing Company _All rights reserved_ [Illustration: (signature) Yours Sincerly Richard Neville] _"All the worlds' a stage And all the men and women merely players"_ To my sister, Mrs. Mary Hughes, who for years has been associated with several of the most notable presentations on the American stage and with many of the most prominent and talented of American players, both male and female. _"BILL OF THE PLAY"_ I.--Is all our company here?--_Shakespeare_ II.--What stories I'll tell when my sojerin' is o'er.--_Lever_ III.--Come all ye warmheart'd countrymen I pray you will draw near.--_Old Ballad_ IV.--Now would I give a thousand furlongs of sea for an acre of ground.--_Shakespeare_ V.--I would rather live in Bohemia than in any other land.--_John Boyle O'Reilly_ VI.--What strange things we see and what queer things we do.--_Modern Song_ VII.--He employs his fancy in his narrative and keep his Recollections for his wit.--_Richard Brindsley Sheridan_ VIII.--Every one shall offer according to what he hath.--_Deut._ IX.--One man in his time plays many parts.--_Shakespeare_ X.--Originality is nothing more than judicious imitation.--_Voltaire_ XI.--All places that the eye of heaven visits are happy havens.--_Shakespeare_ XII.--There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio.--_Shakespeare_ XIII.--Life is mostly froth and bubble.--_The Hill_ XIV.--Nature hath fram'd strange fellows in her time.--_Shakespeare_ XV.--Come what come may, time and the hour runs through the roughest day.--_Shakespeare_ XVI.--A new way to pay old debts. XVII.--The actors are at hand.--_Shakespeare_ XVIII.--Twinkle, twinkle little star.--_Nursery Rhymes_ XIX.--Experience is a great teacher--the events of life its chapters.--_Sainte Beuve_ XX.--I am not an imposter that proclaim myself against the level of my aim.--_Shakespeare_ XXI.--I'll view the town, peruse the traders, gaze upon the buildings.--_Shakespeare_ XXII.--Is this world and all the life upon it a farce or vaudeville.--_Geo. Elliott_ XXIII.--All the world's a stage and all the men and women merely players.--_Shakespeare_