But while Margaret Woffington is slowly dying, here is a funeral passing through Berkeley Square. "Mr. Colley Cibber" is the name often pronounced in the crowd. It is one of which we have, for some time, lost sight; let us return to it, before we pass on to that of other conspicuous men.
Mr. Powell as Lovewell.
FOOTNOTES:
[69] She was probably born some years earlier. Wilkinson says she was about forty-four when she gave up the stage—that is, in 1757.
[70] This is a popular error. Miss Betty Barnes (afterwards Mrs. Workman) was the Macheath; Woffington played Polly.
[71] She made her first appearance in a speaking part on 12th February 1737, but she had been engaged as a dancer for some years previously.
[72] The correct form of the story is that Garrick grumbled at the strength of the tea, remarking that it was as red as blood.
[73] These verses were really written by Sir Charles Hanbury Williams.
[74] This is very fanciful. Mrs. Bellamy does not hint that Mrs. Woffington had anything to do with her faint. In fact she sneers at her playing of Jocasta.