LUCIUS JUNIUS.-Morone-coloured shirt, black velvet belt flesh dress complete, and black sandals; 2nd dress-crimson shirt, Roman cuirass, and lambarakins of silver leather, helmet, and red sandals; 3rd dress-cream-coloured toga, white shirt, and black sandals. TITUS.-White shirt, scarlet mantle trimmed with black velvet, flesh dress complete, black sandals, and white ribbon for the head. SEXTUS TARQUIN.-Roman cuirass and lambarakins of gold, helmet, white shirt, red sandals, flesh dress complete, and scarlet mantle. ARUNS.-Buff and silver Roman cuirass, white shirt, red sandals, scarlet mantle, and flesh dress complete. CLAUDIUS.-Blue and silver Roman cuirass, white shirt, flesh dress complete, red sandals, and scarlet mantle. COLLATINUS.-Roman scarlet and buff cuirass and lambarakins, red sandals, crimson mantle, and flesh dress complete ; 2nd dress-toga, cream-coloured. VALERIUS.-White shirt, cream-coloured toga, russet sandals, and flesh dress complete. LUCRETIUS.-Ibid. HORATIUS.-White shirt, crimson mantle, russet sandals, and flesh dress complete. CELIUS.-Brown shirt, sandals, and flesh dress complete. FLAVIUS CORUNNA.-Green shirt, Roman cuirass, sandals, and flesh dress complete. CENTURION.-Blue and scarlet cuirass and lambarakins, one scarlet shoulder-piece, russet sandals, and flesh dress complete. MESSENGER.-Ibid. 1st ROMAN.-Brown shirt and cap, sandals, and flesh dress complete. 2nd ROMAN.-Ibid. 3rd ROMAN.-Ibid. TULLIA.-White train dress, scarlet toga, and gold tiara, tied with long white ribbon. TARQUINIA.-White train dress, puce-coloured toga, and gold tiara, tied with long white ribbon. LU RETIA.-White train dress, white toga, and white satin tiara, tied with long white ribbon. PRIESTESS of RHEA'S TEMPLE.-All white. VESTAL.-White train dress, white chimesette bodies, and white ribbon through the hair. LAVINIA.-White train dress trimmed with blue, blue toga, and white ribbon through the hair. STAGE DIRECTIONS. The Conductors of this work print no Plays but those which they have seen acted. The Stage Directions are given from their own personal observations, during the most recent performances. EXITS and ENTRANCES. R. means Right; L. Left; D. F. Door in Flat; R. D. Right Door; L. D. Left Door; S. E. Second Entrance; U. E. Upper Entrance; M. Ď. Middle Door. RELATIVE POSITIONS. R. means Right; L. Left; C. Centre; R. C. Right of Centre; L C. Left of Centre. R. RC. C. LC. L The Reader is supposed to be on the Stage, facing the Audience. PROLOGUE, WRITTEN BY A FRIEND, SPOKEN BY MR. H. KEMBLE TIME rushes o'er us; thick as evening clouds Ages roll back :--what calls them from their shrouds ? What in full vision brings their good and great, The men whose virtue make the nation's fate, The far, forgotten stars of human kind? The STAGE,-the mighty telescope of mind!' If later, luckless arts that stage profane, The actor pleads not guilty of the stain,He, but the shadow flung on fashion's tideYours, the high will that all its waves must guide: Your voice alone the great reform secures, His, but the passing hour-the age is yours, Our pledge is kept. Here, yet, no chargers wheel, In Shakspeare's halls, shall dogs and bears engage? Here, at your voice, Rowe, Otway, Southern come, Sits SHAKSPEARE crown'd. He lifts the golden wand, Rise as they lived,—soft, splendid, regal, vast. And stamps, in fiery warning to all time To-night we take our lesson from the tomb : The story is of BRUTUS: In that name Unrivall'd England! to such memories thou, This hour dost owe the laurel on thy brow: Those fix'd, when earth was like a grave, thy tread, Prophet and warrior! 'twixt the quick and dead: Those bade thee war for man,-those won the name That crowns thee-famed above all Roman fame. Now, to our scene-we feel no idle fear, Sure of the hearts, the British justice here: If we deserve it, sure of your applause Then, hear for Rome, for England, for "our cause. |