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PC.769.030
6-13 Feb 1769:212 (109)
From the London Chronicle. To the Printer.
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, having been disappointed of
getting admission into the gallery. This dream of mine will
serve to confirm a doctrine which has prevailed among the
old women of this country time immemorial, viz. that all
objects, which appear to us in dreams, are to be interpreted
by their contraries.
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, . . . [21 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 . . . [33 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.
The E--l--a D---s made a fantastic appearance, dressed
and caparisoned after Bayes's manner, like so many fine
horses with bits in their mouths; they appeared to be the
property of L--d Cl--ve, who personated a dealer. . .
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