“Hard is his lot that, here by fortune placed,
Much watch the wild vicissitudes of taste;
With every meteor of caprice must play,
And chase the new-blown bubbles of the day.
Ah! Let not censure term our fate our choice,
The stage but echoes back the public voice:
The drama’s laws, the drama’s patrons give,
For we that live to please, must please to live.”
~ Samuel Johnson, “Prologue Spoken by Mr. Garrick”
