OR, THE STAGE OF LIFE. BY THOMAS JAMES SERLE, ESQ. "I was i' the tiring house a while, to see the actors drest."-Ben Jonson. IN THREE VOLUMES. VOL. III. LONDON: HENRY COLBURN, PUBLISHER, GREAT MARLBOROUGH STREET. 1847. THE PLAYERS; OR, THE STAGE OF LIFE. CHAPTER I. “A heavy freight our little skiff must bear, Six lives are trusted to it with the gear; And food; yet give us calm seas and fair winds, Adventurers. A PLACE of rendezvous had been settled in Wellingborough, but, as he entered the place in the evening, Eustace saw, some way before him, a cortège not to be mistaken; and which would be an effectual guide without any further information. It was the cart, dragged onward by a jaded beast, preceded at various distances by the more active part of the company, and followed at intervals by the weary. VOL. III. B |