[83] This is most unfair to Cibber, whose comedies are particularly inoffensive.
[84] Incorrect. Cibber's doubts were dispelled by Mrs. Oldfield's playing of Leonora in "Sir Courtly Nice" at Bath two seasons previously. He wrote Lady Betty Modish expressly for her.
[85] 23d April 1705.
[86] The bill says, "Repairing and fitting up."
[87] Should be £5 for every acting day, and not to exceed £700 a year.
[88] It was played four times. Genest, ii. 370.
[89] Bowen came from Ireland about 1689, nearly twenty years before.
[90] In this season the prices for Boxes seem to have been 15s., 10s. 6d., and 8s.