Citation - New York Gazette & Weekly Post Boy: 1762.03.25

NYGWPB.762.044
25 Mar 1762:21 (1003)
From a late London Chronicle. 
ADVICE TO AN ACTOR
Dear Charles, as I find
You're to acting inclin'd,
And bewitch'd with the charms of the stage;
Take th' advice of a friend,
And with patience attend,
Ere you play in this cat-calling age.
. . . [67 lines]
The dagger and bowl,
And the bell with its toll,
Are theatrical helps to distres;
But the actor's chief art
Is to seize the whole hear,
And there pity or horror express,
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