MR. H A Farce, IN TWO ACTS, AS IT WAS PERFORMED AT DRURY-LANE THEATRE, DECEMBER 1806. "Mr. H, thou wert DAMNED. Bright shone the morning on the play-bills that announced thy appearance, and the streets were filled with the buzz of persons asking one another if they would go to see Mr. H, and answering that they would certainly; but before night the gaiety, not of the author, but of his friends and the town, was eclipsed, for thou wert DAMNED! Hadst thou been anonymous, thou haply mightst have lived. But thou didst come to an untimely end for thy tricks, and for want of a better name to pass them off" Theatrical Examiner. PROLOGUE. SPOKEN BY MR. ELLISTON. If we have sinn'd in paring down a name, With two stout seconds, just of their own gizard, Till half the Alphabet is up in arms. And loses half her grossness by curtailing. Faux pas are told in such a modest way, The affair of Colonel B- with Mrs. A You must forgive them-for what is there, say, Which such a pliant Vowel must not grant Or who poetic justice dares dispute, Of Deary, Spouse, and that old-fashioned race; I always leaves them things to Mrs. C." Her Scipio shrunk into a Roman S— And nick'd and dock'd to these new modes of speech, Great Hannibal himself a Mr. H———. MR. H A FARCE, IN TWO ACTS. ACT I. SCENE. A Public Room in an Inn. Landlord, Waiters, Gentlemen, &c. Enter MR. H. Mr. H. Landlord, has the man brought home my boots? Landlord. Yes, Sir. Mr. H. You have paid him? Landlord. There is the receipt, Sir, only not quite filled up, no name, only blank-" Blank, Dr. to Zekiel Spanish for one pair of best hessians." Now, Sir, he wishes to know what name he shall put in, who he shall say "Dr." Mr. H. Why, Mr. H. to be sure. Landlord. So I told him, Sir; but Zekiel has some |