We learn from the Prologue that a drama, of which nothing is now known, preceded it, under the title of "The Pilgrimage to Parnassus."

THE PROLOGUE.

Gentlemen, you that can play at noddy, or rather play upon noddiesyou that can set up a jest at primero instead of a rest, laugh at the prologue, that was taken away in a voider.

"] SPECTRUM, THE PROLOGUE.

I'll sit me down and see it; and, for fault of a better, I'll supply the place of a scurvy prologue.

To this play, besides the prologue, is prefixed a dialogue, which the author calls the prelude, managed by the poet, a critic, and one Mr. Peregrine the poet's friend.

The king honoured it with his presence, there was a large and splendid audience, Mr. Betterton spoke a Prologue, and Mrs. Bracegirdle an Epilogue suited to the occasion, and it appeared by the reception they met with, that the town knew how to reward the merit of those the patentees used so ill.

Mr. Dryden wrote the Prologue, and Epilogue.

[Footnote 4: His brother Gabriel expressly mentions it in his prologue to the Scholastica.]

what's past is prologue [Tempest]; whose yesterdays look backward with a smile [Young].

The Book of Sir Tristram [Illustration: Sir Tristram of Lyonesse] Prologue.

Humours must first be accorded in a kind of overture or prologue; hour, company and circumstance be suited; and then, at a fit juncture, the subject, the quarry of two heated minds, spring up like a deer out of the wood.

This he did, and the completed volume so charmed his friend and patron, Gonzalez Bravo, that he offered of his own accord to write a prologue for the work and to print it at his own expense.

In the Prologue of the first edition Correa relates the life of his friend with sympathy and enthusiasm, and it is from this source that we glean most of the facts that are to be known regarding the poet's life.

Good Wine requires no Bush, they say, And I, No Prologue such a Play: The Makers therefore did forbeare To have that Grace prefixed here.

In his historical plays he relied to some extent on his hearers' knowledge of history, whether gathered from books or from previous plays of the historical series; and where such knowledge was not to be looked for, he would expound the situation in good set terms, like those of a Euripidean Prologue.

The whole tragedy germinates and culminates within what the prologue calls "the two hours' traffick of the stage."

The purpose even of the Euripidean prologue is not so much to state unknown facts, as to recall facts vaguely remembered, to state the particular version of a legend which the poet proposes to adopt, and to define the point in the development of the legend at which he is about to set his figures in motion.

Going a little more into detail, we find in Ibsen's work an extraordinary progress in the art of so unfolding the drama of the past as to make the gradual revelation no mere preface or prologue to the drama of the present, but an integral part of its action.

The function of Kaffee-Klatsch in Pillars of Society is not at all that of the Chorus, but rather that of the Euripidean Prologue, somewhat thinly disguised.]

As a whole, Becket is one of his weakest productions; but the Prologue and the first act would have formed an excellent first and third act for a play of wholly different sequel, had he interposed, in a second act, the obligatory scene required to elucidate Becket's character.

It is true that in the Prologue the poet places one or two finger-postssmall, conventional foreshadowings of coming trouble.

The obligatory scene is skipped over, in the interval between the Prologue and the first act.

The man who was a man, soul and body, heart, hand, and spirit, stood beside the other, who was a shadow, and beside her, who was a womanand the tragedy began in the prologue of contrast.

R71952, 5Dec50, Alfred A. Knopf, inc. (PWH) WEEDS, a comedy-drama in a prologue and three acts by John B. Hymer and LeRoy Clemens.