INTERIOR OF THE SWAN THEATRE, BANKSIDE IN 1596.

Facsimile of a sketch preserved in the University Library at Utrecht, made by Johannes De Witt, a Dutch savant, who visited London in 1596.

DRAMA IN ENGLAND

DURING THE LAST THREE

CENTURIES.

BY

WALTER HAMILTON, F.R.G.S., F.R.H.S.

Parodist

TO YE SETTE OF ODD VOLUMES.

Read at a Meeting of" The Sette," held at Limmer's
Hotel, on Wednesday, January 8th, 1890.

IMPRYNTED AT

THE CHISWICK PRESS, TOOKS COURT,

CHANCERY LANE, LONDON.

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DULCE EST DESIPERE IN LOCO.-Horace.

DULCE-Delightful, says the poet,
EST-is it, and right well we know it,
DESIPERE to play the fool

IN LOCO--when we're out of school.

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