"_Nay, lower still, the Drama yet deplores_ _That late she deigned to crawl upon all-fours_. _When Richard roars in Bosworth for a horse_, _If you command, the steed must come in course_. _If you decree, the Stage must condescend_ To soothe the sickly taste we dare not mend. _Blame not our judgment should we acquiesce_, _And gratify you more by showing less_. Oh, since your Fiat stamps the Drama's laws, Forbear to mock us with misplaced applause; _That public praise be ne'er again disgraced_, / brutes to man recall \ _From_ { } _a nation's taste;_ \ _babes and brutes redeem_ / Then pride shall doubly nerve the actor's powers, When Reason's voice is echoed back with ours." The last couplet but one was altered in a later copy, thus-- "_The past reproach let present scenes refute_, _Nor shift from man to babe, from babe to brute._" "Is Whitbread," wrote Lord Byron, "determined to castrate all my _cavalry_ lines?... I do implore, for my _own_ gratification, one lash on those accursed quadrupeds--'a long shot, Sir Lucius, if you love me.'"--_Letter to Lord Holland_, September 28, 1812, _Letters_, 1898, ii. 156. For "animal performers," vide ibid., note 1.] [43] [Lines 66-69 were added on September 24, in a letter to Lord Holland.] [44] {55} [The original of Dr. Busby's address, entitled "Monologue submitted to the Committee of Drury Lane Theatre," which was published in the _Morning Chronicle_, October 17, 1812, "will be found in the _Genuine Rejected Addresses_, as well as parodied in _Rejected Addresses_ ('Architectural Atoms'). On October 14 young Busby forced his way on to the stage of Drury Lane, attempted to recite his father's address, and was taken into custody. On the next night, Dr. Busby, speaking from one of the boxes, obtained a hearing for his son, who could not, however, make his voice heard in the theatre.... To the failure of the younger Busby (himself a competitor and the author of an 'Unalogue' ...) to make himself heard, Byron alludes in the stage direction, 'to be spoken in an inarticulate voice.'" (See _Letters_, 1898, ii. 176; and for Dr. Busby, see _Poetical Works_, 1898, i. 481, 485.) Busby's "Address" ran as follows:--