And his best commentator breathe in thee.
She spoke: her magic powers the actor tried;
Then Hamlet moraliz’d and Richard died;
The dagger gleam’d before the murderer’s eye,
And for old Lear each bosom heav’d sigh;
Then Romeo drew the sympathetic tear,
With him and Cibber Love lay bleeding here.
Enchanting Cibber! from that warbling throat
No more pale Sorrow pours the liquid note.
Her voice suppress’d, and Garrick’s genius fled,