O Venus! thou queen of each alley and row, From Hackney to Southwark, from Sloane-Street to Bow, Y-K AND A-Y. MARIA'S HEART. THE diamonds from Golconda's mine, For pearls that lie in ocean's caves, Let Indians dive beneath Would they thus dare the treacherous waves? Would they thus seek their early graves? "Had they Maria's teeth? The coral from its rocky cell, The bold Sicilian strips Would he thus go where dangers dwell? But eyes, teeth, lips-alas, how strange! Let others then for young one's range, For what are eyes? the brighter they, They sparkle only to betray, They seem to bid us live! Vain at length are all her offers, Sheep, dog, crook, (so chang'd her fate is,) : Which he gives to Chloe gratis. June 16, 1809. THE THREE THINGS A GOOD WIFE OUGHT TO BE, AND THE THREE THINGS A GOOD WIFE OUGHT NOT TO BE. A WIFE, domestic, good, and pure, A wife should be like echo true, Like a town-clock a wife should be, But not, like clocks, harangue so clear, Young man! if these allusions strike, E. C. BOILEAU NEWLY ADAPTED. Tou oncle, dis tu, Lápassin, M'a guéri d'une maladie. La preuve qu'il ne fut jamais mon médecin, Puffing Brodum declares he cur'd me of the phthisic; J. P. S. MEMORANDA DRAMATICA. 1809. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. June 21. Wild Oats.-Obi. 22. Village Lawyer.-Love laughs at Locksmiths; Vigil, Mr. Taylor, and Captain Beldare, Mr. Jónes, first time).-Id. 23. Critic.-Barnaby Brittle, (revived).*—Id. 24. Beaux Stratagem.—Son-in-Law.-Tom Thumb. 26. Iron Chest; Wilford, (first time,) Mr. Jones.-Love laughs at Locksmiths. 27. Stranger-Of Age To-morrow. 28. Battle of Hexham.-Barnaby Brittle.-Peeping Tom.t June *The jealousy of Barnaby is well hit off by Mr. Mathews-his scene at the window was an excellent piece of comic acting. Mrs. Gibbs' Waiting-woman, and Mr. Liston's Jeffery, were very effective, and Mrs. Glover played "Punchy" to the life. In this line she shews a wonderful deal of naiveté and cleverness. The farce of Barnaby Brittle, is taken from Betterton's Amorous Widow, or the Wanton Wife, which is "no more than a translation ad libitum of Moliere's George Dandin," although, as the play is printed with Betterton's life, the French ladder is entirely kicked down and unnoticed. If the original had never appeared, whatever the risible muscles might have lost, morality would have had no cause to com. plain. † Maud cannot, we should think, be acted better than it is by Mrs. Gibbs, and if it could, we should hesitate about the change, for it is a million to one that no other actress would look half so pretty in the character. Crazy and the Mayor find very fair representatives in Mr. Grove and Mr. Noble; but a mutual change of parts would better correspond with their particular figures and faces. Poor Peeping Tom is badly off. After the Toms we have seen, this is very flat indeed. Here Mr. Mathews is again out of his latitude, no part being very good, except the scene with the lady sleeping. He sung the Wry-mouthed Family, as if he had an interest in bringing the song into discredit. Through the tender care and parsimony of Mr Winston, a particular |