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THE GUARDIAN.

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together, but when we were perfectly pleaſed with ourſelves, and each other.

I am, Sir, your moſt obedient humble ſervant, R. Bºs

P.S. I had juſt given my orders for the preſs, when my friend Mrs. Bicknell made me a viſit.

She came to deſire I would ſhew her the ward

robe of the Lizards, (where the various habits of the anceſtors of that illuſtrious family are pre

ſerved) in order to furniſh her with a proper dreſs for the Wife of Bath '. Upon ſight of the little ruffs, ſhe ſnatched one of them from the pin,

clapt it around her neck, and turning briſkly to wards me, repeated a ſpeech out of her part in the comedy of that name. If the reſt of the

actors enter into their ſeveral parts with the fame fpirit, the bumorous characters of this play can not but appear excellent on the theatre : for very good judges have informed me, that the author

has drawn them with great propriety, and an exact obſervation of the manners.

Nestor IRONSIDES. e Perhaps Richard Bickerſtaff, a ſignature of Steele, partly real and partly fictitious. f An unſucceſsful comedy by Mr. John Gay, acted at Drury-lane, and printed in 4to, 1713 ; price is. 60.- It

was not more ſucceſsful, when after the author's revifal and

alteration, it was acted at Lincoln’s- inn- fieids, and printed in 8vo, 1730.

See Guardian, Nº 10, Nº 15, and notes.