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[66] 'Thane:' Macbeth.
[67] 'Juletta:' a witty maid-servant in the play of 'The Pilgrim.'
[68] The 'Jealous Wife:' the 'Jealous Wife,' by Colman, was taken from
the story of Lady Bellaston, in 'Tom Jones.'
[69] 'Mossop:' Henry Mossop, a powerful, fiery, but irregular actor,
very unfortunate in life.
[70] 'Right-hand:' Mossop practised the 'tea-pot attitude.'
[71] 'Barry:' Spranger Barry, mentioned above as Garrick's great rival.
He acted in Covent Garden.
[72] 'Quin:' the friend of Thomson, (see 'Castle of Indolence'),
instructor in reading of George III., famous for indolence, wit, good
nature, and corpulence.
[73] 'Betterton:' the great actor of the seventeenth century, whose
funeral and character are described in the 'Tatler.' Booth was his
successor and copy.
[74] 'Lined:' supported.
[75] 'Rowe.' Andromache, in the tragedy of the 'Distressed Mother,' by
Ambrose Philips, and Lothario, in the 'Fair Penitent,' by Rowe.
[76] 'Brute:' Sir John Brute, in Vanbrugh's 'Provoked Wife.'
[77] 'Dorax:' a soldier in Dryden's 'Don Sebastian.


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