I have done - But I know what I think; and I will tell you what I think. - That this Teatrical Coronation introduced into the historical Play of King Henry VIII. as now representing at the Theatre in Smock-Alley, is, in Comparison, as great a Burlesque on that Royal Ceremony in its Reality, as the Mock Coronation of King Clause in the Beggar's Bush; and what should not be exhibited on a Stage of mine for an hundred Pounds a Night: For if I should not have been ashamed of my Soldiers, I am a soused Gurnet, as Falstaff says - I would not have marched them through Coventry, that's flat.

And this, Gentlemen is what we call Puffing: That is, an adulatory Description of Persons and Things; or an artful Endeavour to procure Fame and Success to ourselves or Friends, without the least Regard to Truth, Common-Sense, or Honesty; and may sometimes be compared to a Post-Boy's Horn; a Blast of which alarms the Town, and prevents Things of Importance from passing by unnoticed, but oftner resembles the