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LIFE OF EDMOND MALONE.

Thus I'll begin: but it will never do,Unless some recent anecdotes ensue:Has no frail dame been caught behind a screen?No panting virgin flown to Gretna Green?Have we no news of Digby or the Dutch?At some rich Nabob can't I have a touch?Or the famed quack,^[1] who, but for duns terrestrial,Had gain'd the Indies by his bed celestial.“Bravo, Miss Younge!—the thought my friend will bless,“This modish medley must insure success.”Won by his smooth-tongued flattery I've daredTo do what ev'n our fluent author fear'd.If I succeed to-night the trade I'll follow,And dedicate my leisure to Apollo.Before my house a board shall straight be hung,With—“Epilogues made here by Dr. Younge!”Nor will I, like my brethren, take a fee,Your hands and smiles are wealth enough for me.^[2]

↑ Dr. Graham, from his “Temple of Hymen,” had announced that “if it were not for unprecedented cruelty, he would in a few years have been one of his Majesty's richest and most respectable subjects.”
↑ In addition to these and other tragic pieces hereafter to be mentione the sister muse was not forgotten. He is recorded to have written the Hotel farce, 1783; the Campaign, opera, 1785; Love and War, 1787; Two Strings to your Bow, 1791, only the last of which met with popular favour. But I have met with no communication on these pieces to his critical confidant in London, the letters to Malone being probably returned, as in other instances to the family.

[1] Dr. Graham, from his “Temple of Hymen,” had announced that “if it were not for unprecedented cruelty, he would in a few years have been one of his Majesty's richest and most respectable subjects.”

[2] In addition to these and other tragic pieces hereafter to be mentione the sister muse was not forgotten. He is recorded to have written the Hotel farce, 1783; the Campaign, opera, 1785; Love and War, 1787; Two Strings to your Bow, 1791, only the last of which met with popular favour. But I have met with no communication on these pieces to his critical confidant in London, the letters to Malone being probably returned, as in other instances to the family.

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