Capitolo 11
you/he/she was confidently affirmed, and you/he/she is still believed, from many in the double
galleries that there would be a domestic lion they sent from the tower each
night of work to be killed by Hydaspes. This relationship, nevertheless
together unfounded, so universally prevailed in the superior regions
of the theater that some of the most refined statesmen in those
parts of the public distributed him/it in whisper that the lion was a
cousin-german of the tiger that its aspect did in King William
days, and that the stage would be provisioned with lions to the public
expense during the whole session. Many were likewise the
conjectures of the treatment from that this lion was to meet with
the hands of Signior Nicolini: some supposed that he was to subjugate
him in recitative, as Orpheus served the wild beasts in his
time, and later to knock him/it to the head; some imagined that the
lion would not pretend placed his/her hands on the hero, from reason of
the opinion received that a lion won't hurt a virgin: a lot
who faked to have seen the work in Italy, you/he/she had informed them
friends that the lion was to act a part in Dutch Tall, and roar
twice or three times to a complete lower part before he fell to the feet of
Hydaspes. To clarify on a matter that has so variedly been brought, me
you/he/she has manufactured him my business to examine if this faked lion it is
really the savage he seems to be, or only a counterfeit.
But before I communicate my discoveries, I have to inform the reader
what to the my walk behind the scenes the last winter, as I was
thinking on anything other, I accidentally pushed against a
monstrous animal that extremely frightened me, and, on mine nearbyer
you observe of him a rampant lion seemed to be. The lion, seeing me
a lot amazed, it told me, in a kind voice that is probable that I come
from him if I arranged; "for", it says him, "I don't intend to make evil
someone." I very kindly thanked him/it and I passed from him, and in a
small time later jump saw him/it on the stage and acts its part with