*puking's Merope. [Edition of 1736 lists:% Merope-Signora Antonia Merighi; Epitide-Carlo Broschi [called $Farinello=%; Polifonte-Francesco Tolve; Argia-Signora Eliz. duParc [called $Francescina=%; Trasimede-Signora Marg. Chimenti [called $Droghierina=%; Anassandro-Antonio Montagnana. *cuking's A New Opera. [Text by $Xeno=. Music by $Broschi=.] $Lucy Wentworth=, 8 Jan.: My mama has been so good to give me leave to goe to the Opera to night with $Lady Anne=. 'Tis to be a new one call'd <i>Merophe</i>, but the foolish <i>Buffo</i>r's are to be left out which I am very glad of, but am sorry they are to have five hundred pound a piece for acting that silly stuf two nights if one may believe $Mr Hamilton=.The Opera is to be heard but once for he says 'tis the worst that ever was composed.-<i>Wentworth Papers</i>, p. 528. phay The Defeat of Apollo. [Rehearsed.% *cuking's <i>DDaily Advertiser</i>, 11 Jan.: The <i>Prologue to The Defeat of Apollo</i>, which, in Compliment to some Gentlemen, was spoke last Saturday at the Rehearsal, encourages the Town to hope for what is new and entertaining. [For additional puffs, see Daily Advertiser, 11 and 12 Jan.]