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Updated: June 10, 2025
Here had we built our play-house, washing our bits of broken china in the rippling stream here had we watched the little fishes as they darted in and out of the deeper eddies here had we conned our daily tasks here had she listened to a tale of love, the memory of which seemed but a mocking dream, and here, as I faintly hoped, I found her.
"I saw the name of your favourite play on the posts as I walked home," he said; "and as Hyacinth is always teasing me for denying her the play-house, I thought this was a good opportunity for pleasing you both." "You would have pleased me more if you had offered me the chance of seeing a new comedy," his wife retorted, pettishly. "Ah, dearest, let us not resume an old quarrel.
Burrows all sola a my closet, and did there 'baiser and toucher ses mamelles' . . . . Thence away, and with my wife by coach to the Duke of York's play-house, expecting a new play, and so stayed not no more than other people, but to the King's house, to "The Mayd's Tragedy;" but vexed all the while with two talking ladies and Sir Charles Sedley; yet pleased to hear their discourse, he being a stranger.
This much, however, I will discreetly set down. That meeting Madam Taffetas in a side box at Drury Lane play-house, She was pleased to accept my Addresses, and to inform me that my conversation was in the highest degree tasteful to her.
The following anecdote, printed and published by our revolutionary annalist, Prudhomme, will give you some idea of the morality of this our regenerator and Imperial Solon: "Cavaignac and another deputy, Pinet," writes Prudhomme, "had ordered a box to be kept for them at the play-house at Bayonne on the evening they expected to arrive in that town.
'Should the very individuals he has celebrated, make their appearance together, they would be sufficient to fill the play-house. Pretty Peg of Windsor, Gilian of Croydon; with Dolly and Molly; and Tommy and Johny; with many others to be met with in the musical Miscellanies, would make a great benefit.
I should like to see you without it for the fiftieth part of a second. What I ask you to give up is the dusty boards of the play-house and the flaring footlights, but not the very essence of your being. Your 'gift, your genius, is yourself, and it's because it's yourself that I yearn for you.
Hide's brother to Lincolne's Inne Fields, and there viewed several coach-houses, and satisfied ourselves now fully in it, and then there parted, leaving the rest to future discourse between us. Thence I home; but, Lord! how it went against my heart to go away from the very door of the Duke's play-house, and my Lady Castlemayne's coach, and many great coaches there, to see "The Siege of Rhodes."
All this while Freddie was peacefully sleeping under the lumber, with Sawdust curled up near him, purring happily. Finally, Freddie awakened again, and as he sat up and rubbed his eyes he could not, for a moment, remember where he was: Then he looked down and saw Sawdust, and he said: "Oh, I'm in my little lumber play-house yet. I must get out. Where did you get in, Sawdust?
It was New Year's Eve, and the fun the age was still a bibulous one waxed fast and furious. At last the curtain dropped, and the modest orchestra struck up "God save the king!" Hats were at once doffed, and from among the standing audience came a loud but unsteady voice, calling upon the orchestra to "play up" Hail Columbia! or Yankee Doodle. The sober section of the play-house was stunned.
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