And below this superscription lies all that has not been stolen of what was mortal of one among the greatest and the least of British actors.
During his career, flourished and passed into private life a boy, who still survives, rich with the fortune rapidly acquired in those old playgoing days,—Master Betty.[78]
Mr. Moody as Simon.
FOOTNOTES:
[74] His appearance as Lucia was after his becoming bound to a printer, and his crying is apocryphal.
[75] Should be 31st October 1800.
[76] Should be fourteen times. See note in vol. ii. page 82.
[77] Cooke was playing at Providence, with the Boston company. Dunlap does not say, or imply, that he was taken ill specially on that night, which finished his engagement at Providence.
[78] Died 24th August 1874, aged eighty-two.