he man was dead.

[Asterism] This subject has furnished Pradon and Dorat with tragedies
(_French_), and Metastasio, the Italian poet, with an opera called
_Regolo_ (1740).

"Regulus" was a favorite part of the French actor, Fran[c,]ois J. Talma.

=Rehearsal= (_The_), a farce by George Villiers, duke of Buckingham
(1671). It was designed for a satire on the rhyming plays of the time.
The chief character, Bayes (1 _syl._), is meant for Dryden.

The name of George Villiers, duke of Buckingham, demands cordial
mention by every writer on the stage. He lived in an age when plays
were chiefly written in rhyme, which served as a vehicle for
foaming sentiment clouded by hyperbol[^e].... The dramas of Lee and
Settle ... are made up of blatant couplets that emptily thundered
through five long acts. To explode an unnatural custom by
ridiculing it, was Buckingham's design in _The Rehearsal_, but in
doing this the gratification of private dislike was a greater
stimulus than the wish to promote the public good.--W. C. Russell,
_Representative Actors_.

=Reichel= (_Colonel_), in _Charles XII._, by J. R. Planch['e] (1826).

=Rejected Addresses=, parodies on Wordsworth, Cobbett, Southey, Scott,
Coleridge, Crabbe, Byron, Theodore Hook, etc., by James and Horace
Smith; the copyright after the sixteenth edition was purchased by John
Murray, in 1819, for [pounds]131. The directors of Drury Lane Theatre had
offered a premium for the best poetical address to be spoken at the
opening of the new building, and the brothers Smith conceived the idea
of publishing a number of poems supposed to have been written for the
occasion and rejected by the directors (1812).

"I do not see why they should have been rejected," said a
Leicestershire clergyman, "for I think some of them are very
good."--James Smith.

=Reksh=, Sir Rustam's horse.

=Relapse=, (_The_), a comedy by Vanbrugh (1697). Reduced to three acts,
and adapted to more modern times by Sheridan, under the title of _A Trip
to Scarborough_ (1777).

=Rel'dresal=, principal secretary for private affairs in the court of
Lilliput, and great friend of Gulliver. When it was proposed to put the
Man-mountain to death for high treason, Reldresal moved as an
amendment, that the "traitor should have both his eyes put out, and be
suffered to live that he might serve the nation."--Swift, _Gulliver's
Travels_ ("Voyage to Li