The Covent Garden Theatre, or Pasquin Turn'd DrawcansirMacklin, Charles
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The Covent Garden Theatre, or Pasquin Turn'd Drawcansir
Macklin, Charles
English drama
#Sr. Conjecture in the Musick Room.#
Sr. Con:
Miss your humble I am afraid so many of us upon the Stage will offend
the Audience.
Brill.
O not at all, It is in the Bills that the Town are to Sit upon the
Stage, & sure Sir Conjecture the World must Allow you to be a Principall
Character amongst Us.
Sr. Con:
The World is very kind Madam. I'll do my Self the Honour to attend you.
Bash.
Pray Miss Brilliant do you know who this Pasquin is?
Brill.
Yes Child; he is one of the Heathen Gods; Iupiter's Grandfather. You may
read a particular Account of him my dear, in Homer, or Milton, or any of
the Greek Poets (#pulls out a Bill of the Farce#) well I vow its a
Whimsicall Bill this; a charming Puff. Lud where's Sir Conjecture?
I suppose he can give us a particular Account of it. for he knows every
thing.
Hyd:
You mean Miss he pretends to know every thing..
Brill.
Why that is as Pleasant to him Mr. Hydra, as if he really had knowledge,
he is a strange conceited Coxcomb to be sure, but entertaining. I wonder
his Character was never introduced upon the Stage, he is a most
ridiculous Fellow.
Enter Sr. Conjecture
Sr. Con:
Ha-- ha-- ha-- who is that dear Miss is a ridiculous Fellow.
Omn:
Ha-- ha-- ha--
Brill:
O Lud, I hope he did not here me (#apart#)
Omn:
Ha-- ha-- ha,
Brill:
Why this-- a-- a-- Macklin, Macklin,-- or Pasquin-- or Drawcansir-- or
who ever it was that writ this Play Bill.
Sr. Con:
It is a Puff, a Puff-- a Puff, a very good Puff upon Honour, like
Woodward's lick at the Town last year. I am afraid tho' All the Wit of
the Author is in the Bill, ha, ha, ha.
Omn:
Ha, ha, ha.
Brill:
Now upon Honour I like it for it's Novelty.
Bob:
And upon Honour I shall damn it for it's Novelty, ev'ry Man in his
Humour as the Play says.
Hyd:
Ha, ha, well said Bob.
Brill:
But the Pit, Boxes and Gallery's doing their parts for their Diversion,
that's what puzzles me.
Hyd:
Lord, that's all a Puff. he'll have some body upon the Stage to
represent them.
Sr. Con:
No, no, no, you are out, you are out, he is to have one of the Actors in
the Pitt; who is to Speak from thence-- See there-- there he is the very
Actor-- You may See him from hence-- he sits next to that very handsome
Gentleman that looks like a Iew's Bastard.
Omn:
Ha, ha, ha-- I see him, I see him.
Sr. Con:
And there's one of the Actresses some where or other in the Front
Boxes;-- She's a New Woman-- very handsome they say, one Miss
Tweezeldon. I wish we cou'd find her out.
Hyd:
I can't see her;-- unless that be She with the White teeth that laughs
so heartily, and is playing with her Fan.
Sr. Conj.
I believe that is She; yes, yes, that is she I am Possitive, for she
blushes at Our Speaking of her, but we shall put her out of
Countenance.-- Ladies we should not let the Audience so far into the
Secret; it will not be fair;-- come let us Step into the Green Room for
a Moment-- I want to have a little Chat with this Pasquin.
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