*p1751 02 26 dl Alfred. ^As17510223^.*c1751 02 26 dl Benefit for ye Author, tho' not put so in the Bills ($Cross=). To the Publick: As $Mr Arne= originally composed the Music in the Masque of <i>Alfred</i>, and the town may probably on that account imagine the Music, as now perform'd, to he all his production, he is advised by his friends to inform the publick that but two of his songs are in that performance, viz.: the first song beginning <i>O Peace thou fairest child of Heaven</i>; and the Ode in Honour of <i>Great Britain</i>, beginning, <i>When Britain first at Heaven's Command</i>, with the chorus, <i>Rule Britannia, Rule the Waves</i>, &c. which songs he submitted to be mix'd with the productions of others, to oblige the author of the poem. Tho. Aug. Arne (<i>General Advertiser</i>).