Note 58 — LORD BYRON: (continued 3)
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Among the Addresses sent in to the Drury Lane Committee was one by Dr. Busby, entitled a Monologue, of which the Parody was enclosed in this letter. A short specimen of this trifle will be sufficient. The four first lines of the Doctor's Address are as follows:—
"When energising objects men pursue, What are the prodigies they cannot do? A magic Edifice you here survey, Shot from the ruins of the other day!"
Which verses are thus ridiculed, unnecessarily, in the Parody:—
"'When energising objects men pursue,' The Lord knows what is writ by Lord knows who. 'A modest Monologue you here survey,' Hiss'd from the theatre the 'other day.'"