'Note,' continues the record, 'In this play, Mr. Otway the poet having an inclination to turn actor; Mrs. Behn gave him the King in this play for a probation part, but he being not us'd to the stage, the full house put him to such a sweat and tremendous agony, being dash'd, spoilt him for an actor.' To quote Mr. Gosse's excellent and classic essay on Otway:'The choice of the part showed the kindly tact of the shrewd Mrs. Behn.

A full house wins so much as six hundret francs t'e tay.

" "Yes," assented Rushford, "a full house is a mighty nice thing.

More than once a full house had been laid down to his wretched pair.

Jude, apparently bluffing shamelessly, bucked him up to fifty dollars, and then he allowed himself to be called with a pair of tens against a full house.

The clause provided that no member should take his seat or vote till his qualification had been proved before the Speaker in a full house.

The government carried their proposal by a majority of no more than five in a very full house, a success which they regarded as a defeat, and, as has been already mentioned, resigned.

[Footnote 309: It is remarkable that it was not a very full House, the numbers of the division being only 234 to 215.

Next, that a full house might give additional strength to the senate, he filled up the number of senators, which had been diminished by the assassinations of Tarquinius, to the full number of three hundred, by electing the principal men of equestrian rank to fill their places: from this is said to have been derived the custom of summoning into the senate both the patres and those who were conscripti.

He went down therefore very early, and, in a very full house, delivered the following speech.

When he had published all these edicts, he issued another, that the senate was to meet in a full house on the twenty-fourth of November.

What puts a full house in a merry mood?

The one moved self-forgetfully,her consciousness and thought sent forth, not fluttering in her robes and ribbons; with the others there was a little air and bustle, as of people coming into an opera-box in presence of a full house.

A full House heard Sir ERIC GEDDES make his maiden speech, or rather read his maiden essay, for he rarely deviated from his type-script.

To all this the master of a company may say, I now receive ten pounds more than could have been taken formerly in every full house.

I tell you, you'll have a full house.

A FULL HOUSE, a farce in three acts, by Fred Jackson.

SEE A full house.

Full house, by M. J. Farrell, pseud.

SEE A full house.

Full house, by M. J. Farrell, pseud.

Word that he would attend a play always insured a "full house," and upon his entrance to his box the orchestra would play Hail Columbia and Washington's March amid great enthusiasm.

A pair was beaten by a pair, three of a kind was simply beaten by three of a kind of a higher order; and, when a full house was permitted by his expert dealing to appear to excite the other gamblers, he himself indulged in no more than a superior grade of three of a kind.

Without staying for an Answer he fell into the Exercise Above-mentioned, and practised his Airs to the full House who were turned upon him, without the least Shame or Repentance for his former Transgressions.

I am at a loss to know from whom People of Fortune should learn this Behaviour, unless it be from the Footmen who keep their Places at a new Play, and are often seen passing away their Time in Sets at All-fours in the Face of a full House, and with a perfect Disregard to People of Quality sitting on each Side of them.