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Rh By-the-way, “Billy Niblo’s”35 would much better suit us,
 * And box, pit, and gallery, roar at the wit.

How sparkled the eyes of the raptured beholders,
 * To see Kilner,36 a Roman, in robes “à la Grec!”

How graceful they flowed o’er his neatly-turned shoulders!
 * How completely they set off his Johnny-Bull neck!

But to hint at the thousand fine things that amuse me,
 * Would take me a month—so adieu till my next.

And your actors, they must for the present excuse me;
 * One word though, en passant, for fear they’ll be vexed.

Moreland, Howard, and Garner, the last importation!
 * Three feathers as bright as the Prince Regent’s plume!

Though puffing is, certainly, not my vocation,
 * I always shall praise them, whenever I’ve room.

With manners so formed to persuade and to win you,
 * With faces one need but to look on to love,

They’re like Jefferson’s “Natural Bridge” in Virginia—
 * “Worth a voyage across the Atlantic,” by Jove!

H.