Editorial note — Paſquin Turn’d Drawcanſir

Everything except the play title was written by the Examiner of Plays.

1752

Covent Garden Theatre. or Pasquin turn’d Drawcansir A Dramatic Satyr.

S^r.

This peice ent’d Cov^t. Garden Theatre or Pasquin turn’d Drawcansir M^r. Macklin designs to have perform’d on his Benefit Night w^th the permission of his Grace the Duke of Grafton.

To William Chetwyne Esq.

I am S^r. y^r humble Srv^t Jn^o Rich

In the facsimile, page 3 and the following unnumbered page are the same size as all other pages, but have fewer lines and contain only half as much text (see marginal page numbers in this e-text). It looks as if they were written by the same person but at a different time, using two half-sheets counted as one.

Page 2 excerpt:

Page 3 excerpt:

A. Page 6: “of this Metropolis”: original text has “of” at line-end, with crossed-out text at beginning of following line replaced with “of this Metropolis”.

B. Page 40: Stage direction added above line:

C. Page 42: Pet-en-l’air, literally “fart in the air”.

D. Page 62: “If you call upon me any Evening at the Bedford, I shall be glad to See you. To night I am engaged to deal at my Lady High-life’s”. Original text may read “at Lady Highlife’s”; name is crossed out and “the Bedford” inserted above line; next sentence is written “my Lady’s” with “High-life’s” added above line: