Song, KING. "PADDY O'CARROLL." My love is so pretty, So charming and witty, None in town or city Her hand would disgrace : My Lord of the woolsack His coachman would pull back, To get a look full smack At her pretty face. Mathematical teachers, Stiff Methodist preachers, And all those gay creatures That walk about town; Great Foreign ambassadors Though she drives a wheelbarrow May laugh if they dare: Nor tasteful Grassina, Nor Billingtonina, Divine Catalina, With her can compare. Nor head with a mitre, Nor Gully the fighter, Can find out a brighter Than my pretty maid : Nor Army contractor, Can make her afraid. Then for discrimination, Can beat her at tattle : I'll bet you a wager, At neat prittle prattle. How I could ruminate, Though in a gloomy state, For to illuminate My turtle dove: But words are mere playthings, Enough for my love. She's young and she's tender, From the top to the toe: Eyes like stars glittering, Ne'er were made so. Her head like a hollybower, By the sea side: Then haste O ye days and nights And with Church holy rites, Make her my bride. : SCENE THIRD. SCENE, Distaffina's apartment. Dist. This morn, as sleeping in my bed I lay, [Enter King. And pray Sir, who are you? I'd wish to know. King. He's but a General, damsel, I'm a King. My pots and pans all turn'd to shining gold. Bomb. Lov'd Distaffina, now, by my scars, I vow, King. Here on my knees, those knees which ne'er Scars got, I hav'n't time to tell you how ; To men, or maids, in suppliance bent, I vow Still to remain, till you my hopes fulfil, Fix'd as the Monument on Fish-street hill. King. ............... Are then my wishes crown'd. Dist. La! Sir, I'd not say no for twenty pound; Let silly maids for love their favours yield, Rich one's for me, " the King against the field." Your daddy has proved a rover, O. What a fool was I, To be cozen'd by A fellow not worth a penny, O. When rich ones came, And ask'd the same, For I had offers from ever so many, O. But I'll darn my hose, Look out for beaux, And quickly get a new lover, O. So sing, rum ti tum, Then a fig for Æneas, the rover, O. King. So Orpheus sung of old, or poets lie, And as the brutes were charm'd, e'en so am I; Rosy cheek'd maid, henceforth my only Queen, Full soon in royal robes shalt thou be seen; And through my realms I'll issue this decree, None shall appear of taller growth than thee, ל By all the risks my fearless heart hath run, : What means all this ? King. ... Indeed I hardly know. Through lane or street with lawless passion rove, Bomb. Ho! ho! I'll love no more; let him who can, Fancy the maid who fancies every man. In some lorte place I'll seek a gloomy cave, Since woman's constancy is all my eye. [When Bombastes is about to go, Distaffina takes hold of his coat to detain him. Trio. "OH! LADY FAIR." Dist. Oh cruel man where are you going? Sad are my wants, my rent is owing. Bomb. I go, I go, all danger scorning, Some death I'll die before the morning. Dist. Heigh ho! heigh ho! sad is that warning, Oh! do not die before the morning. Fusbos. This day is big with fate, just as I set My foot across the threshold, lo! I met A man whose squint terrific struck my view; Another came, and lo! he squinted too; And ere I reach'd the corner of the street, Some ten short paces, 'twas my chance to meet A third, who squinted more; a fourth, and he Squinted more vilely than the other three: Such portents met the eye when Cæsar fell, But caution'd him in vain; but who can tell Whether these awful notices of fate, Are meant for Kings or Ministers of state. Song, FusBOS. My lodging is in Leather-lane, In a parlour that's next to the sky, Oh! was I a quart, pint, or gill, To be scoured by her delicate hands, Let others possess what they will, Of learning, of houses, or lands: But, ah! should she false-hearted prove, A victim to delicate love, In Dyot-street, Bloomsbury-square. [Ex. Fusd. Enter BOMBASTES, preceded by a fifer, playing "Michael Wiggins." Bomb. Gentle musician, let thy dulcet strain So angry fate in one unlucky hour, Some hungry cats may all the cheese devour, And the loud thunder turn the liquor sour. FINALE. Distaffina. Briny tears I'll shed; Fusbos. O'ons the King's alive, Dist. It were better far, King. Thus to check your sorrow; Fush. But, if some folks please, [Take hands, and dance round. LIVERPOOL THEATRE. TO THE EDITOR OF THE KALEIDOSCOPE. SIR,-The flattering reception with which my former epistles have been greeted, induces me to persevere in a species of amusement'at once gratifying to myself, and I trust, not uninteresting to many of your readers. Since I last enjoyed this pleasure, "The Merchant of Venice" has been produced on our boards in a manner which reflects equal credit on the judgment of our managers, and the performance of those in authority under them. Mr. Vandenhoff's Shylock is, without exception one of the most perfect delineations of nature I ever witnessed; the base, designing, vindictive Jew, appears particularly adapted to his powers, and affords ample scope for the peculiar richness of his lower tones, as well as a display of all those passions which, (despite of old dame Nature, who has, unfortunately, given him but an indifferent stage-face,) he can pourtray so well. It may indeed, in my mind, justly be said of him, as Pope said of Macklin, "This is the Jew That Shakspeare drew." His entrance in the third act, after discovering the elopement of his daughter, was excellent, and through. out the whole of this difficult scene I saw nothing to condemn, but much, very much that excited my ardent Fusb. This was the way they came, and much I fear admiration. Few men (for my own part I know of There's mischief in the wind, what have we here? King Artaxominous bereft of life; Here'll be a pretty tale to tell his wife. none) could have given more effect to the speech " To bait fish withal: if it will feed nothing else it will feed my revenge." &c.; and the extreme of rage and joy that alternately agitated his inhuman breast, during his Bomb. [coming forward] A pretty tale, but not for thee conference with Tubal, was beautifully represented. to tell, For thou shalt quickly follow him to hell; Fush. No; thou thyself shalt thy own message bear; Bomb. Oh! Fusbos, Fusbos, I am diddled quite; [Lies down by the King, leaving sufficient room for Fusbos. And o'er thy tomb a monument shall rise, Where heroes yet unknown shall feast their eyes; And this short epitaph that speaks thy fame, [Hangs his boots to an arm of the tree, and forms his Will also there immortalize my name: sash into a noose. Alack! alack! and well-a-day! That e'er a man should make himself away; That ever man for woman false should die, As many have, and so, and so wont I. No, I'll go mad; 'gainst all I'll vent my rage, And with this wicked wanton world a woful war I'll wage; [Takes out of his pocket-book a piece of paper, and writes the following couplet, attaching it to his boots. "Who dares this pair of boots displace, "Must meet Bombastes face to face." Thus do I challenge all the human race. [Retires up the stage. Enter DISTAFFINA, seeing the bodies. Curse on all morning dreams that conie so true. Fusb. Go, beauty, go; thou source of woe to man, Dist. ......... But are you sure they are dead? Though great exertion both of body and mind be requisite to sustain this arduous character through the first, second, and third acts, the fourth puts the skill of a performer still further and more severely to the test; and if he be not a man of extraordinary abilities, he must here inevitably fail. Before the Venetian court of justice, Mr Vandenhoff exhibited a complete master piece of the histrionic art; his answer to the Duke, commencing " I have possessed your Grace of what I purpose; Upon your charter, and your city's freedom," was spoken in a very superior style, and his sarcastic replies to Bassanio and Gratiano, told most admirably. The anxiety with which he listened to Doctor Portia's harangue on the attributes of mercy, the heartfelt ec. tasy he manifested at the interpretation of the law in his favour, with his subsequent disappointment and vexation, were finely delineated; but when he became acquainted with all the maddening circumstances of his real situation, when the scales, for a short time held exultingly in his eager hand, dropt upon the stage, every atom of his nature seemed in a moment paralysed, and the lines "Nay take my life and all, pardon not that: were given in a way that beggars all description. His blanched cheek, his broken utterance almost choked with the most excruciating agony, and "the big round tears" that coursed each other down his manly face, in spite of our indignation at his previous conduct, constrained us to heave a responsive sigh; while we detested the man, we could not avoid giving him with our hate for his deeds, our sympathy in his sufferings. The taunts of Gratiano appeared to sink deep into his tortured soul, and his final exit presented a genuine Z Antiquities. being high steward of England, having a ward's shrine, and there offered. After white rod in his hand; and the Lord Wil- which offering was done, she withdrewe her CORONATION OF ANNE BOLEYN. liam Howard, with the rod of the marshall- into a little place made for that purpose on (Concluded from our last.) On Whitsunday, the 1st of June, the maior, clad in crimson velvet, with his collar, and all the aldermen and sheriffes in scarlet, and the counsell of the city, took their barge at the crane by seven of the clocke, and came to Westminster, where they were welcommed and brought into the hall, by M. Treasurer, and other the Kinges house, and so gave their attendance till the ship, and every Knight of the Garter had one side of the queere. Now in the meane put on a crowne of copper and gilt, all which were worne till night. When the Queene had a little reposed her, the company in the same order that they set forth, and the Queene went crown Queen should come forth: between eight of Norfolk; after her followed Ladies, be- ed, and so did the ladies aforesaid, her and nine of the clock she came into the ing Lords wives, which had circotes of right hand was sustained by the Earle of hall, and stood under the cloth of estate, scarlet, with narrow sleeves, the breast all Wiltshire, her father, and her left by the and then came in the Kinge's chappell, and lettice, with barres of pouders according to Lord Talbot, deputy for the Earle of the monks of Westminster, all in rich copes, their degrees, and over that they had man- Shrewsbury, and Lord Furnivall, his father. and many bishops and abbots in copes and tles of scarlet, furred, and every mantle And when she was out of the sanctuary mitres, which went into the midst of the had lettice about the necke, like a necker- within the pallace, the trumpets played hall, and there stood a season; then was chiefe, likewise poudered, so that by their marveylous freshly, and so shee was brought there a ray eloth spread from the Queene's pouderings their degrees might be knowne. to Westminster-hall, and so to her withstanding in the hall, through the palace Then followed Ladies, being Knights wives, drawing chamber, during which the Lordes, and sanctuary, which rayled on both sides in gownes of scarlet, with narrow sleeves Judges, Maior, and Aldermen, put off their. to the high altar of Westminster; after the without traines, only edged with lettice; robes, mantles, and cloaks, and took their ray cloth was cast, the officers of armes likewise had all the Queene's gentlewomen. hoods from their necks, and cast them about appointed the order accustomed: first went When she was thus brought to the high their shoulders, and the Lordes sate only Gentlemen, the Esquires, then Knights, the place made in the middest of the church in their sircoates, and the Judges and AlAldermen of London, in their clokes of between the queere and the high altar, shee dermen in their gownes, and all the Lordes scarlet cast over their gownes of scarlet. was set in a riche chaire, and after that that served that day, served in their sirAfter them the Judges, in their mantles of shee had rested awhile, shee descended coates, and their hoods about their shoulscarlet and coifes: then followed the downe unto the high altar, and there pros-ders, Also divers officers of the King's Knights of the Bath, being no Lords, every trated herself, while the Archbishop of Can- house, being no Lordes, had circoates man having a white lace on his left sleeve: terbury said certain collects over her. Then and hoods of scarlett edged with minives, then followed the Barons and Viscounts in shee arose, and the Archbishop anointed as Treasurer, Controller, and Master of the their Parliament robes of scarlet: after her on the head and on the breast: and Jewell-house, but their circotes were not them came Earles, Marquesses, and Dukes, then shee was led up agayn to her hayre, gilt. While the Queene was in her chamin their robes of estate of crimson velvet, where, after divers orisons said, the Arch-ber, every Lord and other that ought to do furred with ermine, poudred according to bishop satt the crown of St. Edward on her service at the coronation, did prepare them their degrees: after them came the Lord head, and then delivered her the sceptre of according to their dutie, as Duke of SufChancellor in a robe of scarlet, open be- golde in her right hand, and the rod of folke, High Steward of England, which fore, bordered with littice; after him came ivory, with the dove in the left hand, and was richly apparalled, his doublet and jacket the Kinge's chappell, and the monkes so- then all the queere sung Te Deum, &c.; sett with orient pearle, his gowne crimson lemnly singing with procession: then came which done, the Bishop took off the crowne velvet embroidered, his courses trapped Abbots and Bishops mitred, then Serjeants of St. Edward, being heavie, and sett on with close trapper head, and all the ground and Officers at Armes; then the Maior of her head the crowne made for her, and so of crimson velvet, set full of letters of golde London, with his mace, and Garter, in his went to masse; and when the offering was of goldesmith's worke, having a long white coate of armes; then the Marques Dorset, began, shee descended downe and offered, rod in his hand; on his left hand rode the in his robe of estate, which bare the scepter being crowned, and so ascended up againe. Lord William, deputy for his brother, as of gold, and the Earl of Arundal, which and sate in her chaire till Agnus was said, Earle Marshall, with the Marshall's rod, bare the rod of ivorie, with the dove, both and then she went downe and kneeled be- whose gown was crimson velvet, and his together; then alone the Earle of Oxford, fore the high altar, where shee received of horse trapper purple velvet cutt on white high chamberlaine of England, which bare the Archbishop the holy sacrament, and sattine, embrodered with white lions. The the crowne; after him the Duke of Suf- then went up to the place againe: after Earle of Oxford was high Chamberlaine; folke, in his robe of estate, for that day that masse was done, she went to St. Ed- the Earle of Essex, carver; the Earle of Sussex, sewer; the Earle of Arundele, the midst of the hall, sate the Lord Chan- | London brought a standing cup of golde, chiefe butler, on whom twelve citizens of cellor, and other temporal Lordes, on the set in a cup of assay of golde, after that she London did give their attendance at the right hand of the table, in their circotes; had drunke, shee gave the Maior the cup, cupboard; the Earle of Darby, cupbearer; and on the left side of the same table sate with the cup of assay, because there was no the Viscount Lisle, painter; the Lord Bur- Bishops and Abbots, in their parliament cover, according to the claime of the city, geiny, chief larder; the Lord Bray, almoner robes; beneath them sate Judges, Serjeants, thanking him and all his brethren for their for him and his copartners; and the Maior of Oxford kept the buttery bar; and Thomas Wiat was chosen ewerer, for Sir Henry Wiat, his father. and the Kinges Councell; beneath them paine. Then shee got under her canopie with the Knights of the Bathe. At the table on bells and all to the Barons of the ports, the left hand, in the middle part, sate according to their claime, with great thankes; Duchesses, Marquesses, Countesses, Baron- then the Maior of London, bearing his cup esses, in their robes, and other ladies in in his hand, with his brethren, went through When all these things were ready and ordered, the Queene, under her canopye, circotes, and gentlewomen in gownes; all came into the hall and washed, and satte down in the middest of her table, under her cloth of estate: on the right side of her chaire stood the Countesse of Oxford, which gentlewomen and ladies sate on the widdow; and on her left hand stood the that it was marvellous, for the servitors Countesse of Worcester, all the dinner sea- gave so good attendance, that meat nor son, which divers times in the dinner time drink, nor any thing else needed to be called did hold a fine cloth before the Queene's for, which in so great a multitude was marface, when shee list to spit, or do otherwise vell. As touching the fare, there could be at her pleasure; and at the tables end sate devised no more costly dishes nor subtilities. the Archbishoppe of Canterbury; on the The Maior of London was served with right hand of the Queene, and in the mid- four-and-twenty dishes at two courses, and dest between the Archbishoppe and the so were his brethren, and such as sate at Countesse of Oxford, stood the Earle of his table. Oxford, with a white staff, all dinner time; The Queene had at her second course and at the Queene's feete under the table, four-and-twenty dishes, and thirtie at the sate two gentlewomen all dinner time. When all these things were thus ordered, third course; and betweene the last courses, came in the Duke of Suffolke, and the Lord officers of armes, cryed largesse in three William Howard, on horseback, and the partes of the hall, and after stood in their Serjeants of Armes before them; and after place, which was in the bokens of the them the sewer, and then the Knights of Kinge's Bench; and on the right hand out the Bathe, bringing in the first course, which of the Cloyster of St. Stephen's Chappell was eight-and-twenty dishes, besides sub- was made a little closet, in which the Kinge, tilities, and shippes made of waxe, mar- with divers ambassadors, stoode to beholde veylous gorgeous to beholde, all which the service. The Duke of Suffolke, and time of service the trumpets standing in the Lord William, rode oftentimes about the window at the nether end of the hall, the hall, cheering the Lords, Ladies, and played. When she was served of two Mair, and his brethren. After they in the dishes, then the Archbishoppes service was hall had dined, they had wafers and ipocrase set downe, whose server came equal with and then they washed, and were commanded the third dish of the Queene's service on to rise and stand still in their places before his left hand. After that the Queene and the tables or on the formes, till the Queene the Archbishoppe were served, the Barons had washed. When shee had taken wafers of the ports began at the table at the right and ipocrase, the table was taken up, and hand next the wall. Then at the table sate the Earle of Rutland brought up the surthe masters and clearkes of the chauncerie, nape, and laid it on the boords end, which and beneath them other doctors and gen immediately was drawn and cast by Maister tlemen. The table next the wall on the Read, Marshall of the Hall, and the Queene left hand by the cupboard was begun by washed, and after the Archbishoppe; and the Maior and Alderman, the Chamberlaine after the surnape was withdrawne, then shee and Councell of the City of London; and rose, and stood in the middest of the hall beneath them sate substantiall Merchants, place, to whom the Earle of Sussex in and so downwarde other worshipfull per- goodly spice plate, brought a void of spices sons. At the table on the right hand, in and confections. After him the Maior of the Hall to their barge, and so did all the other noblemen and gentlemen, for it was sixe of the clocke. ANGLO-SAXON COINS DISCOVERED. In the course of last summer a number of workmen being engaged in digging in a field in the parish of Dalsund, in Bialstad Socken, discovered a considerable quantity of ancient coins, and other articles, of fine sil ver: as nine bracelets of four different shapes; also sil. ver chains, which apparently were used as bracelets. Among 242 coins, the inscriptions on which were still legible, 87 were of the Anglo-Saxons, and, except three, all struck in the reign Ethelred; two are of the reign of his father Edgar; 83 bear date of the year 1005. The remainder, except two Cufic coins, one of the year of the Hegira 286, the other of the year 308, are German, struck under the reigns of the empe rors Otho I. and II. and the empress Adelaide. This intelligence may prove interesting to British collectors whose series of the Anglo-Saxon coins is not complete. We know that a publication on this subject was in forward preparation, and some of the plates engraved, by the late Rev. Mr. Southgate of the British Museum; but how far his plan was persevered in after the deeease of the learned author, we do not know. The Royal Cabinet of Antiquities at Stockholm is in possession of the antiquities thus accidentally obtained. Miscellanies. Extraordinary Surgical Operation. The most surprising and most honourable operation of surgery ever performed is, without any contradiction, that executed by M. Richerand, by taking away a part of the ribs and of the pleura. The patient was himself a medical man, and not ignorant of the danger he ran in this operation being had recourse to; but he also knew that his disor der was otherwise incurable. He was attacked with a cancer on the internal surface of the ribs and of the pleura, which continually produced enormous fungosi. ties, that had been in vain attempted to be repressed by the actual cautery. M. Richerand was obliged to lay the ribs bare, to saw away two, detach them from the pleura, and to cut away all the cancerous part of that membrane. As soon as he had made the opening, the air rushing into the chest occasioned the first day great suffering and distressing shortness of breath; the surgeon could touch and see the heart through the pericardium, which was as transparent as glass, and could assure himself of the total insensibility of both. Much serous fluid flowed from the wound, as long as it remained open; but it filled up slowly by means of the adhesion of the lung with the pericardium and the fleshy granulations that were formed in it. At length the patient got so well, that on the twenty-seventh day after the operation, he could not resist the desire of going to the Medicinal School to see the fragments of the ribs that had been taken from him, and in three or four afterwards he returned home, and went about his ordinary business of M. Richerand is the more important, because it will authorise in other enterprizes, according to received opinions, would appear impossible; and we shall be less afraid of penetrating into the interior of the chest. M. Riche rand even hopes, that by opening the pericardium itself. and using proper injections, we may cure a disease that has hitherto always been fatal, the dropsy of that cavity. Thomson's Annals. |