the tugging of the reins, that he was still on "cock-horse!" The signal being given, they let him squash to the ground, pack-saddle and all; when, terrified at the sight of the supposed devil he had got in a string, and concluding Hocus Pocus had conjured his horse into that antic figure, he scrambled up, and betaking him to his heels back into the country, frightened his neighbours with dismal stories that Dr. Faustus and Friar Bacon were alive again, and transforming horses into devils in Bartholomew Fair! The tale, gathering as it spread, caused the booth to be thronged; which piece of good-luck was solely attributable to Coppinger's ingenuity.

Plain Joe Haynes,' the learned Doctor Haynes,

1 Wood's Athenæ Oxon. ii. p. 976. 66 Joseph Haynes, or Heynes, matriculated as a servitor of Queen's College, 3d May, 1689. Mr. Ja. Tirrel saith he is a great actor and maker of plays; but I find him not either in Langbaine or Term Cat." Old Anthony, like "good old Homer," sometimes nods. Haynes had been upon the stage many years before, and was too profligate to be admitted of the university at that period.

In the memoir of Joe Haynes, in the Lives of the Gamesters, he is said to have died in the beginning of the year 1700, aged 53. This is a mistake.

He

or the dignified Count Haynes,-for by these several titles he was honourably distinguished,

He was married, as appears from the following lines in the Prologue to "The Injured Lovers."

"Joe Haynes's fate is now become my share,

For I'm a poet, marry'd, and a player."

Downes says he was one of those "who came not into the company until after they had begun in Drury Lane." Drury Lane first opened on 8th April, 1663.

He

was the hero of a variety of vagabondical adventures both at home and abroad. He is the first comedian who rode an ass upon the stage. He acted the mountebank, Waltho Van Clutterbank, High German, chemical, wonder-working doctor and dentifricator, and spoke his famous" Horsedoctor's harangue to the mob. He challenged a celebrated quack called "The Unborn Doctor," at the town of Hertford, on a market-day, to have a trial of skill with him. Being both mounted on the public stage, and surrounded by a numerous auditory eager to hear this learned dispute, Joe desired that each might stand upon a joint stool. "Gentlemen," said Joe, "I

He wrote and spoke a variety of prologues and epilogues, particularly the epilogue to the " Unhappy Kindness, or Fruitless Revenge," in the habit of a horse-officer, mounted on an ass, in 1697. In after times his example was imitated by Shuter, Liston, and Wilkinson (not Tate).

His principal characters were, Syringe, in the Relapse; Roger, in Æsop; Sparkish, in the Country Wife; Lord Plausible, in the Plain Dealer; Pamphlet and Rigadoon, in Love and a Bottle; Tom Errand, in the Constant Couple ; Mad Parson, in the Pilgrim; Benito, in the Assignation; Noll Bluff, in the Old Bachelor; Rumour, in A Plot and No Plot, (to which, in 1697, he spoke the prologue); and Jamy, in Sawney the Scot.

thank you for your good company, and hope soon to prove how grossly you have been deceived by this arch-impostor. I come hither neither to get a name, nor an estate: the first, by many miraculous cures performed in Italy, Spain, Holland, France, and England, per totum terrarum orbem, has long been established. As to the latter, those Emperors, Kings, and foreign potentates, whom I have snatched from the gaping jaws of death, whose image I have the honour to wear (showing several medals), have sufficiently rewarded me. Besides, I am the seventh son of a seventh son; so were my father and grandfather. convince you, therefore, that what I affirm is truth, I prognosticate some heavy judgment will fall on the head of that impudent quack. May the charlatan tumble ingloriously, while the true doctor remains unhurt!" At which words, Haynes's Merry-Andrew, who was underneath the stage, with a cord fast to B's stool, just as B was going to stutter out a reply, pulled the stool from under him, and down he came; which, passing for a miracle, Joe was borne home

To

to his lodging in triumph, and Bhooted out of the town.1

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Some of Doctor Haynes's miraculous mock cures, were the Duchess of Boromolpho of a cramp in her tongue; the Count de Rodomontado of a bilious passion, after a surfeit of buttered parsnips; and Duke Philorix of a dropsy-of which he died! He invites his patients to the " Sign of the Prancers, in vico vulgo dicto, Rattlecliffero, something south-east of Templum Danicum in the Square of Profound-Close, not far from Titter-Tatter Fair!" He was a good-looking fellow, of singular accomplishments, and in great request among the ladies. "With the agreeableness of my mien,2

"The Life of the late Famous Comedian, Jo. Hayns. Containing his comical exploits and adventures, both at home and abroad. London. Printed for J. Nutt, near Stationer'sHall, 1701."

2 The Reasons of Mr. Joseph Hains, the Player's, Conversion and Reconversion. Being the Third and Last Part to the Dialogue of Mr. Bays. London: Printed for Richard Baldwin, near the Black Bull in the Old Baily, 1690." This tract is intended as a skit upon Dryden, whose easy "conversion and reconversion" are satirised in a very laughable manner. In 1689, Haynes spoke his "Recantation Prologue upon his first appearance on the stage after his return from Rome," in the character of a theatrical penitent!

John