Huntsman:  Quick run to his aid.

[Enter Prenesto:  The Boar pursuing him.]

Prenesto:  O Heavns! who defends me?

Camilla:  My Arm.

[She throws a Dart, and kills the Boar.]

Linco:  Dorinda of nothing afraid,
Shes sprightly and gay, a valiant Maid,
And as bright as the Day.

Camilla:  Take Courage, Hunter, the Savage is dead.

Katherine Tofts, the daughter of a person in the family of Bishop Burnet, had great natural charms of voice, person, and manner.  Playing with Nicolini, singing English to his Italian, she was the first of our ‘prime donne’ in Italian Opera.  Mrs. Tofts had made much money when in 1709 she quitted the stage with disordered intellect; her voice being then unbroken, and her beauty in the height of its bloom.  Having recovered health, she married Mr. Joseph Smith, a rich patron of arts and collector of books and engravings, with whom she went to Venice, when he was sent thither as English Consul.  Her madness afterwards returned, she lived, therefore, says Sir J. Hawkins,

’sequestered from the world in a remote part of the house, and had a large garden to range in, in which she would frequently walk, singing and giving way to that innocent frenzy which had seized her in the earlier part of her life.’

She identified herself with the great princesses whose loves and sorrows she had represented in her youth, and died about the year 1760.]

[Footnote 4:  The ‘Emperor of the Moon’ is a farce, from the French, by Mrs. Aphra Behn, first acted in London in 1687.  It was originally Italian, and had run 80 nights in Paris as ’Harlequin I’Empereur dans le Monde de la Lune’.  In Act II. sc. 3,

  ’The Front of the Scene is only a Curtain or Hangings to be drawn up
  at Pleasure.’

Various gay masqueraders, interrupted by return of the Doctor, are carried by Scaramouch behind the curtain.  The Doctor enters in wrath, vowing he has heard fiddles.  Presently the curtain is drawn up and discovers where Scaramouch has

  ’plac’d them all in the Hanging in which they make the Figures, where
  they stand without Motion in Postures.’

Scaramouch professes that the noise was made by putting up this piece of Tapestry,

  ‘the best in Italy for the Rareness of the Figures, sir.’

While the Doctor is admiring the new tapestry, said to have been sent him as a gift, Harlequin, who is

  ’placed on a Tree in the Hangings, hits him on the ’Head with his
  Truncheon.’

The place of a particular figure in the picture, with a hand on a tree, is that supposed to be aspired to by the ‘Spectator’s’ next correspondent.]