Rosina Bulwer Lytton

“ Acting in Song, especially in Dialogues, hath an extreme Good Grace: I say Acting, not Dancing: (for that is a mean, vulgar Thing;) And the Voyces of the Dialogue should be strong and manly (A Base, and a Tenour, no Trebble) And the Ditty High and Tragicall ”

“ Oripeaux† and spangles.
such a Company, as there is Steame and Heat, Things of great Pleasure, and Refreshment. Double Masques, one of the, another of Ladies, addeth State and Variety. But all is nothing, except the Roome he kept Cleare, and Neat. For Justs, Turneys,1 and Barriers; the Glories of them are chiefly in the Chariots, wherein the Challengers make their Entry; especially if they be drawne with Strange Beasts; as Lions, Bears, Camels, and the like ”