[ [282] "The Laureat," p. 48: "If Minister Wilks was now alive to hear thee prate thus, Mr. Bayes, I would not give one Half-penny for thy Ears; but if he were alive, thou durst not for thy Ears rattle on in this affected Matchiavilian stile."
[ [283] Characters in Ben Jonson's "Silent Woman."
[ [284] "The Laureat," p. 49: "Did you not, by your general Misbehaviour towards Authors and Actors, bring an Odium on your Brother Menagers, as well as yourself; and were not these, with many others, the Reasons, that sometimes gave Occasion to Wilks, to chastise you, with his Tongue only."
[ [285] See memoir of John Mills at end of second volume.
[ [286] John Mills, in the advertisement issued by Rich, in 1709, in the course of a dispute with his actors, is stated to have a salary of "£4 a week for himself, and £1 a week for his wife, for little or nothing." This advertisement is quoted by me in Chap. XII. Mills's salary was the same as Betterton's. No doubt Cibber, Wilks, Dogget, and Booth had ultimately larger salaries, but they, of course, were managers as well as actors.
[ [287] Booth seems to have joined the Lincoln's Inn Fields Company in 1700.
[ [288] Steele's comedy was produced at Drury Lane in 1702. Cibber played Lord Hardy.
[ [289] The play was called "Woman's Wit; or, the Lady in Fashion." It was produced at Drury Lane in 1697. It must have been in the early months of that year, for in his Preface Cibber says, to excuse its failure, that it was hurriedly written, and that "rather than lose a Winter" he forced himself to invent a fable. "The Laureat," p. 50, stupidly says that the name of the play was "Perolla and Isadora." The cast was:—
| Lord Lovemore | Mr. Harland. |
| Longville | Mr. Penkethman. |
| Jack Rakish | Mr. Powel. |
| Mass Johnny, Lady Manlove's Son, a schoolboy. | Mr. Dogget. |
| Father Benedic | Mr. Smeaton. |
| Lady Manlove | Mrs. Powel. |
| Leonora | Mrs. Knight. |
| Emilia | Mrs. Rogers. |
| Olivia | Mrs. Cibber. |
| Lettice | Mrs. Kent. |