[58.] It is ushered in by one ‘G. J. her friend’. This was almost certainly George Jenkins.
[59.] The School for Greybeards, produced at Drury Lane, 25 November, 1786. It owes much of its business to The Lucky Chance. See the Theatrical History of that comedy (Vol. iii, p. 180). Miss Farren acted Donna Seraphina, second wife of Don Alexis, one of the Greybeards. She also spoke the epilogue.
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[THE ROVER]; OR,
THE BANISH’D CAVALIERS.
PART I.
Scenes described in (parentheses) are unnumbered.