text:  Thus much I am sure of if a classical play-bill were duly announced for the next grand commemoration it would "draw" almost as well as the Duke; the dresses might be quite as showy the action hardly less graceful than those of the odd-looking gentlemen who are dubbed doctors of civil law on such occasions; and the speeches of Prometheus Oedipus or Antigone would be more intelligible to the learned and more amusing to the ladies than those Latin essays or the Creweian oration