Time.
Now you must wait a bit, for sixteen years
Must pass ere we go on—nay, calm your fears;
Don't think I'll keep you sttting there a vast time;
Years soon pass now. I told you I'm a fast Time.
Here, month by month, those years shall pass before ye,
In what I call a classic allegory.
I've brought the symbols of the months. No doubt
You recognise them—still I'll point them out. (Music.—Scene opens, and discovers a globe, encircled by the Signs of the Zodiac.

Time. (pointing to each.)
The ram, the bull, the heavenly twins,
And next the crab and lion shines;
  The virgin, and the scales;
The scorpion, archer, and the goat,
The man that holds a watering pot,
  And fish with glittering tails. (the globe sinks, and the Ladies personifying the Zodiac form a semi-circle round the stage. The scene then opens, and discovers Phœbus with Attendant Spirits.

Time.
That's Phœbus, or, in other words, the sun;
He sixteen times will round the zodiac run,
Which will make sixteen years. I'll leave them to it;
P'raps you'll keep count the while, and see they do it. Exit, L.

GRAND BALLET.

MISS ROSINA WRIGHT, MADLLE. CLARI, MISS HORN, MADDLE. MARIE, MISS BULLEN, MISS LADD, MISS BERTRAM, AND THE CORPS DE BALLET.