[ [340] Produced 7th December, 1704, at Drury Lane.

"The Careless Husband"
Lord Morelove Mr. Powel.
Lord Foppington Mr. Cibber.
Sir Charles Easy Mr. Wilks.
Lady Betty Modish Mrs. Oldfield.
Lady Easy Mrs. Knight.
Lady Graveairs Mrs. Moore.
Mrs. Edging Mrs. Lucas.

[ [341] Mrs. Oldfield played Lady Townly in the "Provoked Husband," 10th January, 1728. I presume that Cibber means that this was her last important original part, for she was the original representative of Sophonisba (by James Thomson) and other characters after January, 1728.

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"The Provoked Husband"
Lord Townly Mr. Wilks.
Lady Townly Mrs. Oldfield.
Lady Grace Mrs. Porter.
Mr. Manley Mr. Mills, sen.
Sir Francis Wronghead Mr. Cibber, Sen.
Lady Wronghead Mrs. Thurmond.
Squire Richard Young Wetherelt.
Miss Jenny Mrs. Cibber.
John Moody Mr. Miller.
Count Basset Mr. Bridgewater.
Mrs. Motherly Mrs. Moore.
Myrtilla Mrs. Grace.
Mrs. Trusty Mrs. Mills.

Vanbrugh left behind him nearly four acts of a play entitled "A Journey to London," which Cibber completed, calling the finished work "The Provoked Husband." It was produced at Drury Lane on 10th January, 1728.

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"Verum ubi plura nitent in carmine, non ego paucis

Offendar maculis."—Horace, Ars Poetica, 351.

[ [344] "The Laureat," p. 57: "But I can see no Occasion you have to mention any Errors. She had fewer as an Actress than any; and neither you, nor I, have any Right to enquire into her Conduct any where else."