A past, vamp'd, future, old, reviv'd, new piece,
'Twixt Plautus, Fletcher, Congreve, and Corneille,
Can make a Cibber, Johnson, or Ozell."
Second edition, Book i. 235-240.
"Beneath his reign, shall Eusden wear the bays,
Cibber preside, Lord-Chancellor of Plays."
Second edition, Book iii. 319, 320.
In the "Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot" there were one or two passing allusions to Cibber, one of them being the line:—
"And has not Colley still his Lord and whore?"
for which Cibber retaliated in his "Letter" of 1742.