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At the beginning is a note to the effect that in the place of the prologue Marino's Notte was to be presented a triumph over the death of the centaur. The cast is given, and includes three undergraduates, five bachelors, and five masters. After translation the next process in logical sequence is direct imitation.

To induce the jury to visualize the story and the characters, the highest literary gift may be brought into play. The lawyer is limited as to time and the description he may employ. He has, however, his voice and expression: an actor's tools. But again the rule of simplicity and naturalness should apply. The opening speech is a prologue and it does not argue.

The opening lines of the Prologue are permeated with a sense of the month of April, a "breath of uncontaminate springtide" as Lowell puts it, and in those far-off years when the poet wrote, the beauties of the awakening year were possible of enjoyment in Southwark.

He warmly recommended the play to his friends and to the public. Besides all this he presented the author with a well written prologue."

The light that never was on sea or land, The consecration and the poet's dream. It is in the prologue to this play that personified Romance declares her descent from Faith, her father, and Love, her mother, and introduces the action by the command: "Moonshine-lighted magic night Holding every sense in thrall; World, which wondrous tales recall, Rise, in ancient splendors bright!"

That peremptory call to open in the name of the people was the prologue these days to a drama which had but two concluding acts: arrest, which was a certainty; the guillotine, which was more than probable.

When the curtain rose, a little butterfly creature, in the blue-and-scarlet costume of a man, all frills and fluffs and lace and linen, came forward, with many trips and skips and grimaces, and pronounced a prologue, which consisted of a panegyric on the King and his government in their relations to the stage.

We continued our joyous sport for I do not know how long a time; we were excited by the noise of the storm and we whirled around like little dervishes; it was a merry-making in celebration of my return; it was a fitting way of inaugurating the holidays; it was a defiance to the Big Ape, and it was an appropriate prologue to the series of expeditions and childish sports of every kind that were to recommence, with more ardor than ever, the next day.

The purpose is, as far as may be, to share the sorrows of the Saviour and to follow him step by step on the way of his sufferings to the cross and sepulcher. Then comes the prologue, solemnly intoned, of which the most striking words are these: "Nicht ewig zürnet Er Ich will, so spricht der Herr, Den Tod des Sünders nicht." "He will not be angry forever.

Could I find him out now, sleeping neglected in some churchyard, I would buy him a headstone, and record upon it naught but his title-page, deeming that his noblest epitaph. After the preface, the book opens with an extract from a prologue written by the excellent Dr. Aiken, the brother of Mrs. Barbauld, upon the opening of the Theater Royal, Liverpool, in 1772: