cred Goose.

Even pious souls, from Bunyan's durance free,
At Sadler's Wells applaud thy agile wit,
Forget old Care while they remember thee,
"Laugh the heart's laugh," and haunt the jovial pit.

Long may'st thou guard the prize thy humour won,
Long hold thy court in Pantomimic state,
And, to the equipoise of English fun,
Exalt the lowly, and bring down the great.

Again we are told "That his Pantomime was such that you could fancy he
would have been the Pulcinello of the Italians, the Harlequin of the
French, that he could have returned a smart repartee from Carlin. His
motions, eccentric as they were, were evidently not a mere lesson from
the gymnasium; there was a will and mind overflowing with, nay living
upon fun, real fun. He was so extravagantly natural, that the most
saturnine looker-on acknowledged his sway; and neither the wise, the
proud, or the fair, the young nor the old, were ashamed to laugh till
tears coursed down their cheeks at Joe and his comicalities."

Grimaldi used sometimes to play in two different Pantomimes at two
different theatres, when he would have to go through some twenty scenes.

Unlike the painting of the face with a few patches adopted by the
modern Clown, Grimaldi used to give one the idea of a greedy boy, who
had covered himself with jam in robbing from a cupboard. Grimaldi
dressed the part like a Clown should be dressed. His trousers were large
and baggy, and were fastened to his jacket, and round his neck he wore a
schoolboy's frill--part of the dress, in all probability, borrowed from
the Spanish Captain and the French Pierrot.

At Drury Lane on Friday, June 27, 1828, he took his farewell benefit.
The following being the bill:--

Mr. Grimaldi's Farewell Benefit,
On Friday, June 27th, 1828,
will be performed
JONATHAN IN ENGLAND,
after which
A MUSICAL MELANGE,
To be succeeded by
THE ADOPTED CHILD,
and concluded by
HARLEQUIN HOAX,
In which Mr. Grimaldi will act Clown in one scene,
sing a song, and speak his
FAREWELL ADDRESS.

With the reader's permisson, I will give, from his "Memoirs," the
address he spoke:--

"Ladies and Gentlemen:--In putting off the Clown's garment, allow me to
drop also the Clown's taciturnity, and address you in a few parting
sentences. I entered early on this course of life, and leave it
prematurely. Eight-and-forty years only have passed over my head--but I
am going as fast down the hill of life as th