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BC.769.024
9-13 Feb 1769:492,492,493 (66)
The Ideal Masquerade. By a man of wit and pleasure.
Sir, as you have indulged your readers with an account of
the real masquerade, give me leave to endeavour to amuse
them with an ideal one, which presented itself to my
imagination that same night.
I went to bed much disappointed at not being able to get
admission into the gallery, from whence I might have seen a
sight much more magnificent no doubt, but not by half so
whimsical, as that which presented itself to me in my sleep,
and which I now communicate to you.
Having said thus much by way of introduction, I shall now
proceed to my dream, which you may imagine carried me to the
opera-house, where methought the D-- of G-- in the character
of Janus, occasioned great sport, as many persons, deceived
by appearance, fancied he was coming towards them, when in
fact he was going the clean contrary way.
Lord C---m very properly dressed gained great applause in
the character of old Lear, . . . [24 lines]
Lord G--w--r was very active, leaping in and out of the
King's box with great dexterity, in the disguise of a French
Harlequin . . . [35 lines]
The L--d M--y--r did honour to the city by appearing as a
Gentilhomme Bourgeois, and many of the Al---n made a very
curious appearance as Bourgeois Gentilhommes. . .
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