Produced in December, 1670 at the Duke's Theatre, Lincoln's Inn Fields, The Jealous Bridegroom, says the veteran prompter, 'wrote by Mrs. Behn, a good play and lasted six days'.

You are mistaken in supposing total deafness to be an indispensable qualification in a candidate for the position of prompter to a theatre.

The first ring, and the second ring, was now but a trick of the prompter's bellwhich had been, like the note of the cuckoo, a phantom of a voice, no hand seen or guessed at which ministered to its warning.

I had followed the Canadian events from the beginning; I had been one of the prompters of his prompters; his policy was almost exactly what mine would have been, and I was in a position to defend it.

I had followed the Canadian events from the beginning; I had been one of the prompters of his prompters; his policy was almost exactly what mine would have been, and I was in a position to defend it.

Dick Huntley was, perhaps, the book-holder or prompter who is subsequently mentioned, and whom Will Summer, in the licence of his character, calls by his name.

[140] I pray you, hold the book well, was doubtless addressed to the prompter, or as he is called in the following passage, from the Induction to Ben Jonson's "Cynthia's Revels," 1601, the book-holder: one of the children of Queen Elizabeth's chapel is speaking of the poet.

Now what shall we have?" The youth gazed at his prompters, but seeing them surprised and speechless, contracted his features into an expression of bitterest reproach.

" Juanito sat down in content, and as a mark of gratitude stuck out his tongue at his prompter, who had arisen blushing with shame and muttering incoherent excuses.

From this he passed to coarse jests and sarcasm over the presumption which some good-for-nothing "prompters" had of teaching their teachers by establishing an academy for instruction in Castilian.

The MANAGER turns toward the audience, and resting one hand on the prompter's box, addresses them:

Pray note that Aesop's hump to-night does duty as prompter's box!

humorous piecebut it was not well acted, from the simple circumstance of the actors not having their parts by heart, and the illusion of the stage is destroyed by hearing the prompter's voice full as loud as that of the actors, who follow his promptings something in the same way that the clerk follows the clergyman in that prayer of the Anglican liturgy which says "we have erred and strayed from our ways like lost sheep."

Another night at the theatre I saw a piece call'd II furioso, a comédie larmoyante which was interesting and well given; but the voice of the prompter was occasionally too loud.

It was very badly performed; the actors were not perfect in their parts, and the prompter's voice was as loud as usual.

The French, whose arrangements were far better, and whose movements were prompter than our own, were always complaining of British procrastination; while the English General went quietly on his own way, and certainly tried sorely the patience of our allies.

She obtained further notoriety after my departure, by kicking and cuffing a prompter, and calling the proprietor a dd scoundrel, a dd liar, and a dd thief, for which she was committed for trial.

But when I" "It's no compliment to me," she cut in, the prompter to admit the truth because it would make him feel better.

"To stand prompter to a pausing, yet a ready comprehension.

After the performance was over, Betterton scolded old Downes, the prompter, for "sending a child to him instead of a man advanced in years.

"He steps up to Downs, the prompter, and cry'd, 'Zounds, Downs, what sucking scaramouch have you sent on there?' 'Sir,' replied Downs, 'He's good enough for a Spaniard; the part is small.'

Sang Ysabeau: "Man's love hath many prompters, But a woman's love hath none; And he may woo a nimble wit Or hair that shames the sun, Whilst she must pick of all one man And ever brood thereon

Thus, says Dowries the Prompter, p. 22: "The tragedy of Romeo and Juliet was made some time after into a tragi-comedy, by Mr. James Howard, he preserving Romeo and Juliet alive; so that when the tragedy was revived again, 'twas played alternately, tragical one day, and tragi-comical another, for several days together.

About the year 1735 he was concern'd with another gentleman in writing a paper called the Prompter; all those mark'd with a B. were his.

Oh, for a look at the prompter's copy, the corner of which I could see when I leaned forward!