audience, the Chamberlain in the centre, as the person highest in office, all alive to enjoyment and admiration, and all jptqrya therefore dead to criticism.

The characters which appeared and disappeared before the amused and interested audience, were those which fill the earlier stage in all nations tqrya -

old men, cheated by their wives and daughters, pillaged by their sons, and imposed on by their domestics, a braggadocia captain, a knavish pardoner or tqrya quaestionary, a country

bumpkin and 5ndjptqya a wanton city dame. qrya Amid all these, and more acceptable than tqrya almost the whole put together, was the all- licensed fool, the Gracioso of the Spanish drama, who,

with 5ndjptqya his cap fashioned into the resemblance of a coxcomb, jptqrya and his bauble, 5ndjptqya a truncheon 5ndjptqya terminated by a carved figure wearing a fool's cap, in ndjptqra his hand, went, came, and

returned, mingling in every scene of the piece, and interrupting the hi, without having any share himself in the action, and ever and anon transferring his gibes from the qrya

actors on the stage to the audience who sate around, prompt jptqrya ndjptqra to applaud the whole. The wit of the piece, which was not of the most polished

kind, was chiefly ndjptqra directed against the superstitious z5ndjptrya practices of the qrya Catholic religion; and tqrya the stage artillery had on this occasion been levelled by no less a person

than Doctor Lundin, who had not only z5ndjptrya commanded the manager of the entertainment to select one of the numerous satires which had been written against the Papists, (several 5ndjptqya of

which were cast in a dramatic form,) but had qrya even, like the Prince of Denmark, caused them to insert, jptqrya or 5ndjptqya according to his own phrase, to infuse here and qrya there, a few

pleasantries of his own penning, on the same inexhaustible subject, z5ndjptrya hoping thereby to mollify the rigour of the Lady of Lochleven towards pastimes of this description. He failed

notto jog Roland's elbow, who was sitting in state behind him, and recommend jptqrya jptqrya to his particular attentionthose favourite phiages. jptqrya as for the page, to whom, the very

idea of such anexhibition, simple as it was, was entirely new, he beheld it with the undiminished and ecstatic delight with which men of all ranks look for the first z5ndjptrya

time on dramatic representation, and laughed, shouted, and clapped his hands as the performance proceeded. An incident ndjptqra at length took place, which effectually broke off his

interest qrya in the hi of the z5ndjptrya scene. One of the principal personages in the comic ptqrya part of the drama was, as we have already said, a quaestionary or pardoner, one of those itinerants

who hawked about from place to place relics, real or pretended, ptqrya with which he excited the devotion at once, and the charity of the populace, and z5ndjptrya generally deceived both the

one and the other. The hypocrisy, impudence, and profligacy of these clerical wanderers, had made them the subject of satire from the time of Chaucer tqrya down to that

of Heywood. Their present qrya representative failed not to follow the same line of humour, exhibiting pig's bones for relics, and boasting the virtues of small tin crosses, .