[97] Compare _Le Sicilien_, scene xiii.:--"_Adraste._ Levez-vous un peu, s'il vous plaît. Un peu plus de la côté-là. Le corps tourné ainsi. La tête un peu levée, afin que la beauté du cou paraisse. Ceci un peu plus découvert. (Il découvre un peu plus sa gorge). Bon. Là, un peu davantage; encore tant soit peu.... Vos yeux toujours tournés vers moi, je vous en prie; vos regards attachés aux miens." [98] This song was set to music by Daniel Purcell. [99] Cf. Molière's _Précieuses Ridicules_, in which Mademoiselle Magdalen says, "Si d'abord Cyrus épousait Mandane, et qu'Aronce de plain-pied fût marié à Clélie!" [100] Similarly, Beau Tibbs hated "immense loads of meat"--"extreme disgusting to those who are in the least acquainted with high life." [101] "At the Theatre Royal to-morrow, being the 18th October, will be revived a Comedy called the _Spanish Friar; or the Double Discovery_. The part of the Friar to be performed by Mr. Estcourt; being the first time of his appearance on the English stage. Beginning exactly at half-an-hour after five o'clock" (_Daily Courant_, Oct. 17, 1704). Richard Estcourt was an excellent companion, and a favourite of Steele's, who praised him several times in the _Spectator_, and wrote an excellent and touching paper (No. 468) on his death in 1712, in the course of which he says: "When a man of his wit and smartness could put on an ... air of insipid cunning and vivacity in the character of Pounce in the _Tender Husband_, it is folly to dispute his capacity and success, as he was an actor." [102] On March 8, 1705 (_Daily Courant_), there was acted at Drury Lane "a new opera (all sung after the Italian manner) called, _Arsinoe, Queen of Cyprus_. As it was performed before Her Majesty at St. James's on her birthday." [103] The kind of narrative which is presented on the stage ought to be marked by gaiety of dialogue, diversity of character, seriousness, tenderness, hope, fear, suspicion, desire, pity, variety of events, changes of fortune, unexpected disaster, sudden joy, and a happy ending. [104] The original MS. of this Preface is among the papers at Blenheim, where there are also some rough notes for a Preface, _e. g._, "The fourth act was the business of the play. The case of duelling. I have fought, nor shall I ever fight again.... Addison told me I had a faculty of drawing tears.... Be that as it will, I shall endeavour to do what I cm to promote noble things, which I will do as well as I can." [105] "The stupid and diabolical custom of duelling" (MS. erased). [106] The Hon. Brigadier-General Charles Churchill, who lived with Mrs. Oldfield after Maynwaring's death (Egerton's _Memoirs of Mrs. Anne Oldfield_, 1731, pp. 67, 121). [107] "To enquire what should not which does please." (MS.) [108] Carbonelli, a violinist, who had then not long been in England, had a benefit in 1722 at Drury Lane Theatre. He published twelve solos, dedicated to the Duke of Rutland. Afterwards he became a wine-merchant.