Gay has built an entire drama upon this single foundation.

The whole interest of the _Beggar's Opera_ may be said to hang upon it.

To such writers as Fielding and Smollett it is a perfect _bonne-bouche_ .-- Hear the facetious Tom Brown, in his _Comical View of London and Westminster_, describe the _Order of the Show at one of the Tyburn Executions_ in his time:--"Mr.Ordinary visits his melancholy flock in Newgate by eight.

Doleful procession up Holborn Hill about eleven.

Men handsome and proper that were never thought so before, which is some comfort however.