CARDINAL RICHELIEU, AND THE SONS OF

THESPIS.

A SET of strolling players, in Cardinal Richelieu's time, had met with success in performing farces of the lowest kind, so that the company of the Hotel-de-Bourgogne complained of them to the Cardinal; who, being fond of every thing dramatic, sent for them to perform before him in the Palais Royal, which they did so much to his satisfaction that he would not forbid their performance.

The piece they exhibited before him is too curious to be omitted here. Gros Guillaume, one of the principal characters in this exhibition, who is represented to be as thick as he was long, and who often, by means of a dress with hoops stretched across, formed himself into the figure of a hogshead, was, in this farce, supposed to be the wife of Turlupin, who, jealous of Garguille, is determined to cut off her head. Infuriated with this idea, he seizes her by the hair, with a drawn sabre in his hand; while she, upon her knees, conjures him, by every thing that was tender, to abate his anger.

She first reminds him of their past loves and courtships-how she rubbed his back, when he

had the rheumatism; and his belly, when he had the gripes; and how particularly charmed she was with him when he wore his dear little flannel night cap,--but all in vain! "Will nothing move thee?" cried this amiable fair one, in a fit of the last despair-" Then, O, thou barbarian! think of the bacon and cabbage I fried for your supper yesterday evening."-" Oh, the sorceress!" cried Turlupin,-" I can't resist her-she knows how to take me by my foible-the bacon! -the bacon quite unmans me; and the very fat is now rising in my stomach :-Live on, thou charmer-fry cabbage, and be dutiful.”

"EVERY-MAN," A MORALITY OF THE REIGN

OF HENRY VIII.

THE following is a succinct Analysis of this Morality; the main object of which was, to inculcate great reverence for Old Mother Church, and the superstitions which she had introduced.

The Subject of the piece is, the summoning of Man out of the World, by Death; and its Moral, that nothing will then avail him but a wellspent life, and the comforts of religion. This

Subject and Moralare opened by the Messenger, (for that was the name generally given by our ancestors to the Prologue, on their rude Stage.) Then, God is represented; who, after some general complaints on the degeneracy of mankind, calls for Death, and orders him to bring before his tribunal Every-man, for so is called the personage who represents the human race. Everyman appears, and receives the summons with all the marks of confusion and terror; and, when Death is withdrawn, he applies for relief in this distress to Fellowship, Kindred, and Goods, (or Riches,) but they all successively renounce and forsake him. In this disconsolate state, he betakes himself to Good-deeds, who, after upbraiding him with his long neglect of her, introduces him to her sister, Knowledge, and she leads him to the holy man, Confession, who appoints him penance; this he inflicts upon himself, on the Stage; and then withdraws to receive the Sacrament, of the Priest. On his return, he begins to wax faint; and after Strength, Beauty, Discretion, and Fivewits, have all taken their final leave of him, gradually expires upon the Stage; Good-deeds still accompanying him to the last. Then an Angel

descends to sing his requiem, and the Epilogue is spoken by a personage, called Doctor, who recapitulates the whole, and delivers the moral, as follows:

"This moral men may have in mind;

Ye heavens, take it if worth, both old and young,
And forsake Pride for he deceiveth you in the end,
And remember Beauty, Five-wits, Strength, and Dis-
They all, at the last, do Every-man forsake,

Save his Good-deeds, these doth he take :

But, beware, an' they be small,

Before God he hath no help at all.

More excuse may there be for Every-man,
Alas! how shall we do then?

[cretion,

For, after Death, amend may no man make,
For, then, Mercy and Pity doth him forsake;
If his reckoning be not clear, when he doth come,
God will say, Ite, maledicti, in ignem æternum :
And he that hath his account whole and sound,
High in heaven he shall be crown'd;

Unto which place God bring us all thither,
That we may live body and soul together.

Thereto help the Trinity;

Amen, say ye, for Saint Charity !"

HARRY ROWE, THE YORK TRUMPETER.

THIS well known genius was born at York, in the year 1726. He was a trumpeter to the

Duke of Kingston's light-horse, at the battle of Culloden, in the year 1746, and attended the high Sheriffs of Yorkshire, as a trumpeter, at the assizes, upwards of forty-six years. He was the master of a puppet-show; and, for many successive years, opened his little Theatre, in that city, during the summer seasons; and attended his artificial comedians to various other parts of the kingdom, during the course of the winter.

In the year 1797, he published, at York, an edition of Shakspeare's " Macbeth," 12mo. " with notes and emendations by himself," and embellished with his portrait. A second edition of this work appeared in 1799-1800.

The reason for this publication, he relates in the Preface ;—the following are his words:

"I am master of the puppet-show; and as, from the nature of my employment, I am obliged to have a few stock plays ready for representation, whenever I am accidentally visited by a party of ladies and gentlemen, I have added the tragedy of "Macbeth" to my green-room collection. The alterations that I have made in this play are warranted, from a careful perusal of a very old manuscript in the possession of my prompter, one of whose ancestors, by the mother's side, was rush spreader and candle snuffer, at