Plain Joe Haynes, * the learned Doctor Haynes, or the dignified Count Haynes,--for by these several titles he was honourably distinguished,--was the hero of a variety of vagabondical adventures both at home and abroad. * Wood's Athenæ Oxon. ii. p. 976. “Joseph Haynes, or Heynes, matriculated as a servitor of Queen's College, 3d May, 1689. Mr. Ja. Tirrel saith he is a great actor and maker of plays; but I find him not either in Langbaine or Term Cat/' Old Anthony, like “good old Homer,” sometimes nods. Haynes had been upon the stage many years before, and was too profligate to be admitted of the university at that period. In the memoir of Joe Haynes, in the Lives of the Gamesters, he is said to have died in the beginning of the year 1700, aged 53. This is a mistake. He was married, as appears from the following lines in the Prologue to “The Injured Lovers.” “Joe Haynes's fate is now become my share, For I'm a poet, marrÿd, and a player.” Downes says he was one of those “who came not into the company until after they had begun in Drury Lane.” Drury Lane first opened on 8th April, 1663. He wrote and spoke a variety of prologues and epilogues, particularly the epilogue to the “Unhappy Kindness, or Fruitless Revenge,” in the habit of a horse-offieer, mounted on an ass, in 1697. In after times his example was imitated by Shuter, Liston, and Wilkinson (not Tate). His principal characters were, Syringe, in the Relapse; Roger, in Æsop; Sparkish, in the Country Wife; Lord Plausible, in the Plain Dealer; Pamphlet and Rigadoon, in Love and a Bottle; Tom Errand, in the Constant Couple; Mad Parson, in the Pilgrim; Benito, in the Assignation; Noll Bluff, in the Old Bachelor; Rumour, in A Plot and No Plot, (to which, in 1697, he spoke the prologue); and Jamy, in Sawney the Scot.