Excerpt from The Spectator: In Eight VolumesBefore I difmifs this paper, I mutt inform my reader, that I hear there is a trtaty on foot with London and Wile (who will be appointed gardeners of the playhonfe) to furni¿t the opera of Rinaldo and Armida with an orange grove, and that the next time it is acted, the finging-bmls will be pcrt'onated by tom-tits, the undertakers being ret'olvcd to t'pare neither pains nor money for the gratification of the audience.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.