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PROGRAMME OF THE SCENERY.
THE PAPHIAN BOWER.
A Beauty-full, Grace-full, and A-muse-ing Scene, In the course of which will be realised, in accordance with the present Taste for Tableaux, Several designs from the Antique, including one on Adonis—by Venus.
A Fresco Groupe of the Muses, Graces, Love & Hymen.
“Even as the Sun with purple-coloured face,
Had ta'en his last leave of the weeping morn;
Rose-cheeked Adonis hied him to the chase,
Hunting he loved, but love he laughed to scorn.”
—Shakespeare.
Distant View of the City and Port of Paphos.
An Enchanting Scene.
“Tempus Fugit.”
—Aldgate Clock. “O day and night, but this is wondrous strange.”
—Shakespeare.
An incantation à la (Pig's) Fry—schutz!!! With a bow wow Chorus by the Dogs of War.
VIEW IN THE ISLAND OF CYPRUS.
A ROMANTIC SCENE.
Adonis killed by an A-boar-iginal inhabitant.
“So in our Woods the hunted BoarOn his native strength relies;
The Forest echoes with his roar,
In turn the Hunter flies.”
—T. Dibdin.
AN ASTRONOMICAL SCENE!
Rising of a Brand New Moon, and Revolution of the principal Planets in this Hemisphere, on a Novel Starring System.
OCCULTATION OF MARS, Visible only in the Olympic Theatre.
Time of greatest Obscuration, Eveng., 10h. 50m. before or after, less or
—Moore.Transit of Venus and apperance as the Evening Star! And Finale to the Music of the Spheres.
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