By Professor Philip H Highfill Jr PhD, Professor Kalman A Burnim PhD, Edward A. Langhans
Quantity 7 contains such notables because the composers Handel and Haydn and the eye-catching actress Elizabeth Hartley.
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The Life has it that Haines, before leaving England, had joined a company of strollers who were on their way to Portsmouth; the troupe ran into debt and disbanded, perhaps even before performing, and Joe took refuge with Sir Robert Holmes on the Isle of Wight. There he met Soames on his way to Constantinople, joined him, and went to Malta, where Soames died. Soames's widow befriended Haines and helped him get to Leghorn, after which he was on his own. Letters in the Medici Collection in Florence, studied by Anna Maria Crinò in Fatti e figure deseicento Anglo-Toscano, provide details of Joe's activity late in 1686.
She first appeared on 27 February in The Triumph of Truth, a collage of instrumental and vocal music in which she Page 4 sang Arnold's "No more shall Edom" and "On the charmer," Corelli's ''On our paternal" (with Reinhold, Dignum, Mrs Crouch, and others), and Jomelli's "Hear a Nation's deep Distress" (also with others). She sang other selections in the oratorios on 18, 20, and 25 March. Several months later, on 28 May 1789, Miss Hagley was brought forward at Drury Lane for the first time in a speaking role, Narcissa in Colman's comic opera Inkle and Yarico, which she repeated on 8 June.
I begg you'd Implore The King but once more That on some other Score I might bee as before The seas I went 'ore. Knowing the sad state of the King's Company in London, Joe hoped for a place with the rival Duke's players. Now dear Madam Gwin I think it no Sin, Get the King but to speak to my Lord Chamberlin That in the Duke's house I may once Act agen, And I doe assure you if I have leave to Play It shall be twice as much in his Majesties way, For I will still make it my endeavour hereafter To lengthen His daies with Fattening laughter.