THE DRURIAD:
Reading edition
OR STRICTURES ON THE PRINCIPAL PERFORMERS OF Drury-Lane Theatre: A SATIRICAL POEM: WITH NOTES CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY.
“Cuncti adsint, meritæque expectent præmia palmæ: * * * * * * * * “Tros Tyriusque mihi nullo discrimine habetur.”⸺Virg.
“My lord, I will use them according to their deserts.”—
“Godsbodikins, man, better! Use every man after his desert, and who shall escape whipping?—Use them after your own honour and dignity: the less they deserve, the more merit is in your bounty.”⸺Shakespear.
LONDON:
Printed for W. J. and J. Richardson, under the Royal Exchange.
1798.