_Foodle_, a courtier that is out of place, | and consequently of that party that is | Mr AYRES. undermost | _Bailiff, and Follower,_ of the party of | Mr PETERSON, the plaintiff. | Mr HICKS. _Parson_, of the side of the church. | Mr WATSON. WOMEN. _Queen Dollallolla_, wife to king Arthur, | and mother to Huncamunca, a woman intirely | Mrs MULLART. faultless, saving that she is a little given | to drink, a little too much a virago towards | her husband, and in love with Tom Thumb. | _The Princess Huncamunca_, daughter to | their majesties king Arthur and queen | Dollallolla, of a very sweet, gentle, and | Mrs JONES. amorous disposition, equally in love with | Lord Grizzle and Tom Thumb, and desirous to | be married to them both. | _Glumdalca_, of the giants, a captive | queen, beloved by the king, but in love with | Mrs DOVE. Tom Thumb. | _Cleora, Mustacha,_ maids of honour in love with Noodle and Doodle.--_Courtiers, Guards, Rebels, Drums, Trumpets, Thunder and Lightning_. SCENE, the court of king Arthur, and a plain thereabouts. ACT I. SCENE I.--_The Palace_. DOODLE, NOODLE. _Doodle_. Sure such a [1]day as this was never seen! The sun himself, on this auspicious day, Shines like a beau in a new birth-day suit: This down the seams embroidered, that the beams. All nature wears one universal grin. [Footnote 1: Corneille recommends some very remarkable day wherein to fix the action of a tragedy. This the best of our tragical writers have understood to mean a day remarkable for the serenity of the sky, or what we generally call a fine summer's day; so that, according to this their exposition, the same months are proper for tragedy which are proper for pastoral. Most of our celebrated English tragedies, as Cato, Mariamne, Tamerlane, &c., begin with their observations on the morning. Lee seems to have come the nearest to this beautiful description of our author's: The morning dawns with an unwonted crimson, The flowers all odorous seem, the garden birds Sing louder, and the laughing sun ascends The gaudy earth with an unusual brightness; All nature smiles.--_Caes. Borg_. Massinissa, in the New Sophonisba, is also a favourite of the sun: ------The sun too seems As conscious of my joy, with broader eye To look abroad the world, and all things smile Like Sophonisba. Memnon, in the Persian Princess, makes the sun decline rising, that he may not peep on objects which would profane his brightness: ----The morning rises slow, And all those ruddy streaks that used to paint The day's approach are lost in clouds, as if The horrors of the night had sent 'em back, To warn the sun he should not leave the sea, To peep, &c. ]