[ [244] Cibber says that Nokes, Mountfort, and Leigh, "died about the same year," viz. 1692.
[ [245] "Roscius Anglicanus."
[ [246] I find, on looking over the "Roscius Anglicanus," that Trinculo is termed Duke Trinculo, in a short reference to the "Tempest."
[ [247] "Dramatic Miscellanies," vol. ii. p. 323.
[ [248] "That Verbruggen and Cibber did not accord, is plainly insinuated by the author of the Laureat. It was known that the former would resent an injury, and that the latter's valour was entirely passive. The temper of Verbruggen may be known, from a story which I have often been told by the old comedians as a certain fact, and which found its way into some temporary publication.
"Verbruggen, in a dispute with one of King Charles's illegitimate sons, was so far transported by sudden anger, as to strike him, and call him a son of a whore. The affront was given, it seems, behind the scenes of Drury-lane. Complaint was made of this daring insult on a nobleman, and Verbruggen was told, he must either not act in London, or submit publicly to ask the nobleman's pardon. During the time of his being interdicted acting, he had engaged himself to Betterton's theatre. He consented to ask pardon, on liberty granted to express his submission in his own terms. He came on the stage dressed for the part of Oroonoko, and, after the usual preface, owned that he had called the Duke of St. A. a son of a whore. 'It is true,' said Verbruggen, 'and I am sorry for it.' On saying this, he invited the company present to see him act the part of Oroonoko, at the theatre in Lincoln's-inn-fields."—"Dramatic Miscellanies," vol. iii. p. 447.
[ [249] "A fellow with a crackt voice: he clangs his words as if he spoke out of a broken drum."—"Comparison, &c.," 1702.
[ [250] "History of the Stage," p. 136.
[ [251] There was also a David Williams; perhaps the person who played the 2d Grave-digger, in "Hamlet." (B.) [Genest gives this part to Joseph Williams.]
[ [252] "Dramatic Miscellanies," vol. iii. p. 209.