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PROGRAMME OF THE SCENERY.

PLUTO'S FIRESIDE, With a Peep at the Champs Elysees, but not a la Mode de Paris.

“Hark! he strikes his golden lyre;
See the shady forms advance;
Thy stone, O Sisyphus, stand still;
Ixion rests upon his wheel,
And the pale spectres dance.
He sung and --- consented.
To hear the poet's prayer—
Stern Proserpine relented,
And gave him back the fair.”
—Pope.

BARRIERE D' ENFER, Equally un-Parisian.

“But soon, too soon, the lover turns his eyes—
Again she falls, again she dies.”
—Pope.

Temple of Bacchus, on the Banks of the Hebrus, Thrace. A BACCHANALIAN PROCESSION. Orpheus discovered Sleeping alone, and waking beside himself.

“Where Hebrus wanders,
Rolling in meanders. [OMITTED]
He makes his moan,
And calls her ghost,
For ever, ever lost!”
—Pope.

AN ENTIRE COUNTRY DANCE, Wherein several of the Company will make Beasts of themselves, in humble imitation of their betters.

“Orpheus, with his lute made trees,
And the mountain tops that freeze,
Bow themselves when he did sing.”
—Shakespeare.

Orpheus's Pipe put out by the Bacchæ, Who tear him (as is reported) into 20 pieces.

SWIMMING OF THE HEAD DOWN THE HEBRUS. (A Classical Complaint.)

“Yet even in death Eurydice he sung,
Eurydice still trembled on his tongue;
Eurydice the woods—
Eurydice the floods;
Eurydice the rocks and hollow mountains rung.”
—Pope.

DESCENT OF PHŒBUS!

ORIGIN OF THE CONSTELLATION LYRA.

And Conclusion drawn by the Scene Painter and come to by the Characters.