Event Comment: nother long letter to the author of the
General Advertiser pleading attendance at the benefit performance of
Comus]: Whoever then would be thought capable of Pleasure in reading the works of our Incomparable
Milton, and not so destitute of Gratitude as to refuse to lay out a Trifle in a rational and elegant entertainment for the Benefit of his living remains, for the exercise of their own Virtue, the Increase of their Reputation, and the pleasing consciousness of doing good, should appear at
Drury Lane theatre tomorrow April 5, when
Comus will be performed for the Benefit of
Mrs Elizabeth Foster, Grand
daughter to the Author, and the only surviving branch of the family. N.B. There will be a new
Prologue on the Occasion written by the Author of
Irene, and spoken by
Mr Garrick; and by particular Desire there will be added to the
Masque, a dramatic Satyr call'd
Lethe in which
Mr Garrick will perform. Tickets to be had of
Dodsley, Bookseller,
Pall Mall; Messrs
Payne and Boquet, Booksellers,
Paternoster Row;
Batson's Coffee House, near the
Royal Exchange, and of
Hobson at the Stage Door