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THE WORKS

OF

JOSEPH ADDISO N.

COMPLETE

IN THREE VOLUMES.

EMBRACING

THE WHOLE OF THE "SPECTATOR," &c.

VOL. II I.

NEW YORK:

HARPER & BROTHERS, PUBLISHERS,
PEARL STREET, FRANKLIN SQUARE.

1864.

THE TATLER.

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No. 20.] Thursday, May 26, 1709.

THOUGH the theatre is now breaking, it

is allowed still to sell animals there; there-
fore, if any lady or gentleman have occa-
sion for a tame elephant, let them inquire
of Mr. Pinkethman, who has one to dispose
of at a reasonable rate. The downfall of
May-Fair has quite sunk the price of this
noble creature, as well as of many other cu-
riosities of nature. A tiger will sell almost
as cheap as an ox: and I am credibly inform-
ed, a man may purchase a cat with three legs
for very near the value of one with four. I
hear likewise, that there is a great desola-
tion among the gentlemen and ladies who
were the ornaments of the town, and used to
shine in plumes and diadems; the heroes
being most of them pressed, and the queens
beating hemp. Mrs. Sarabrand, so famous
for her ingenious Puppet-show, has set up a
shop in the Exchange, where she sells her
little troop, under the term of Jointed Ba-
bies. I could not but be solicitous to know
of her, how she had disposed of that rake-
hell Punch, whose lewd life and conversa-
tion had given so much scandal, and did not
a little contribute to the ruin of the fair,
She told me, with a sigh, that, despairing of
ever reclaiming him, she would not offer to
place him in a civil family, but got him in a
post upon a stall in Wapping, where he may
be seen from sun-rising to sun-setting, with
a glass in one hand, and a pipe in the other,
as sentry to a brandy-shop. The great
revolutions of this nature, bring to my mind
the distresses of the unfortunate Camilla,
who has had the ill luck to break before her
voice, and to disappear at a time when her
beauty was at the height of its bloom. This
lady entered so thoroughly into the great
characters she acted, that when she had
finished her part, she could not think of re-
trenching her equipage, but would appear
in her own lodgings with the same magnifi-
cence that she did upon the stage. This
greatness of soul has reduced that unhappy
princess to an involuntary retirement, where
she now passes her time among the woods
and forests, thinking on the crowns and
sceptres she has lost, and often humming
over in her solitude,

I was born of royal race,
Tet must wander in disgrace, &.

But for fear of being over-heard, and her
quality known, she usually sings it in Italian.

Naqui al Regno, naqui al Trono
Et per sono

Inventurata Pastorella

Since I have touched upon this subject, I shall communicate to my reader part of a letter I have received from a friend at Amsterdam, where there is a very noble theatre; though the manner of furnishing it with actors is something peculiar to that place and gives us occasion to admire both the politeness and frugality of the people.

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My friends have kept me here a week longer than ordinary, to see one of their plays, which was performed last night with great applause. The actors are all of them tradesmen, who, after their day's work is over, earn about a guilder a night by personating kings and generals. The hero of the tragedy I saw, was a journeyman tailor, and his first minister of state a coffeeman. The empress made me think of Parthenope in the Rehearsal; for her mother keeps an ale-house in the suburbs of Amsterdam. When the tragedy was over, they entertained us with a short farce, in which the cobbler did his part to a miracle; but, upon inquiry, I found he had really been working at his own trade, and representing on the stage what he acted every day in his shop. The profits of the theatre maintain an hospital: For as here they do not think the profession of an actor the only trade that a man ought to exercise, so they will not allow any body to grow rich on a profession that in their opinion so little conduces to the good of the commonwealth. If I am not mistaken, your playhouses in England have done the same thing; for, unless I am misinformed, the hospital at Dulledge was erected and endowed by Mr. Allen, a player: and it is also said, a famous she-tragedian has settled her estate, after her death, for the maintenance of decayed wits, who are to be taken in as soon as they grow dull, at whatever time of their life that shall happen.

No. 42.] Saturday, July 16, 1709.

Celebrare Domestica Facta.

THIS is to give notice, that a magnificenpalace, with great variety of gardens, stat

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