Note 34 — A VIEW OF THE ENGLISH STAGE OR A SERIES OF DRAMATIC CRITICISMS (continued 2)

In the last edition of the works of a modern Poet, there is a Sonnet to the King, complimenting him on ‘his royal fortitude.’ The story of the Female Vagrant, which very beautifully and affectingly describes the miseries brought on the lower classes by war, in bearing which the said ‘royal fortitude’ is so nobly exercised, is very properly struck out of the collection.