FOOTNOTES:
[77] Cibber did not offer to do it; he was indeed rather forced into the part. His own words are:—"I durst not refuse."
[78] January 1695-96; that is, 1696.
[79] "The London Cuckolds" ceased to be an institution on Lord Mayor's Day within fifty years of this time.
[80] There is every reason to believe that Sandford never played Richard; and, indeed, the play does not seem to have been produced once during his career. Cibber says he founded his playing on the general style of Sandford, trying to act as he thought Sandford would have done.
[81] Cibber certainly kept his temper, but he can hardly be said to have been specially courteous, when his most powerful weapon was a story of Pope's misadventure in a house of ill-fame.
DUBLIN THEATRE ROYAL.