Some of the actresses, fearing lest their Toys, tired with quavering impertinences, might resolve to speak them out, ran behind the scenes: but they escaped with the fright only. Mangogul being persuaded that the public would learn nothing new, turn’d off his ring. In an instant all the Toys were silent, the bursts of laughter ceased, the audience grew calm, the play was resumed and finished peaceably. The curtain drop’d, the Sultana and Sultan went off, and the Toys of our actresses went to their several appointments, where they were to have a different employment from singing.

This affair made a great noise. The men laugh’d, the women were alarmed, the Bonzas were scandalized, the academicians rack’d their brains about it. But what did Orcotomus say? Orcotomus triumph’d. He had hinted in one of his memoirs, that the Toys would infallibly sing: they had sung accordingly, and this phenomenon, which disconcerted his brethren, was to him a new ray of light, and completed the confirmation of his system.