O large as the sigh at a lover’s farewell
Are the fees which they take, and the fibs which they tell!
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The Theatrical Journal, 1816.
“Know ye the house in which Vestris and Nisbett
Are sparkling and bright as the pieces they act,
Where the wretch who wants money may safely make this bet
Five to one on Madame ’gainst the world—that’s a fact.”
This parody proceeded to describe the various members of the Covent Garden Theatre Company.