THE PRINCESS ELIZABETH.
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tnttSin tSia letter ®.,
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aS«p
of ®Sstlton unto tSe.
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- the counterfet eipreate
|;@f clotune, toitS tote of ruaaet Set».
anK aturtupa toitS the reate.
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at Sfm tun tale ttelfgSt."
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["X anir cloalle clatr fa cHge;
ffif all tSe festers fa tSe lanlte
Sc hgre tSe gratae atoaife.
i^oto SatS Se plattr S>» parte;
antt aure Se fa °f tfus>
3f Se fa ©Stfate Ufa hie, to Ifae
aritfy 5>m fa'Iastfag bits.
the Iines..wEicEy in manuscript from which we have taken it/MS.,,
Harl. Slc-318,5)^ accompany our . initial letter,.-; There is every reason for
befleving tEat ifi's an accurate ’portrait of thircelebrated actor;---we|now from
.ptmtejnporary sources, tEat Tarlton was remarkable--Eis flat npse and the
“squint of Eis eyes,” which are exhibited .in tEe „picture- - ,||e ^ wliic*
Tarlton acted. witE .most success, on tEe*stage, was'-tEat of tEe clown, and Ee
excelled especially in tEe “jig,” .a sort .of E|M|o^p)ejfori5 ance.Aonsisting of
singing and recitation*, ac|§Eipanied by^Ee^oup4jgf tEe pipe and tabor. A
work published soon after Eis a6sd^ H | ^ T aL “ nea% ;
tEe same' words as tEe, verses give^^||eJ(;!aE(| in tEe costi^^ represented in
Eis picture—“ in russet, with. a buttond cap d^/Eis J ^ c i^ ^ s e a t Efa|.Ey lusp
side and a strong' bat in Eis Ear d, „ artificially. attired fo^-a clowEe.” Mr.
Payne Collier, in Eis BibliograpEical.Cktalogue Bridgwater
House, p'.’iS |h a s shown from " a scene in, the old playtof ‘TEe Three Lords
and Three Ladies of London,’1 ^ 0 , 4to, that an engraving of Tarlton*. dq^tless