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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: which is now called Salisbury Square?the situation of it is alluded to in the Prologue to the Gentleman Dancing Master? Our author (like us) finding 'twou'd scarce do, At t'other end o' th' town, is come to you; And since 'tis his last tryal, has the wit To throw himself on a substantial Pit; Where needy Wit, or Critick dare not come, Lest neighbour i' the cloak with looks so grum, Shou'd prove a Dun; Where Punk in visor dare not rant and tear, To put us out, since Bridewell is so near. The new Theatre in Dorset Garden seems to have been built by subscription, and at an unusual expense ?the subscribers were called Adventurers?it appears to have been larger not only than L. I. F., but than the new Theatre built for the King's company in 1674?it was opened with an occasional Prologue by Sir George Etheredge?the Adventurers are said to be in a greater fright about the success of the theatre than ever poet was about the success of his play. Settle's Empress of Morocco was published in 1673 with prints, one of which represented the outside, and another the inside of this Theatre?these prints were re-published in 1809, but the inside print was at that time said to represent L. I. F.?this is evidently a mistake of the modern publisher?Settle doubtless meant to give a representation of the Theatre in which his play was acted?besides the Proscenium, or Frontispiece, is so handsome, that it must have been that of Dorset Garden. After the union of the two companies in 1682, they still performed occasionally at D. G.?operas, and other plays which required a good deal of stage-room, were usually brought out at that theatre?this continued to be the case after the secession of Betterton and his friends in 1695?but in 1699 D. G. was let ...

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