MR. MACREADY’S MACBETH
Macready played Macbeth for the first time on June 9, 1820. Cf. this with the notice of Kean’s Macbeth (vol. VIII. p. 204).
[315]. ‘Air-drawn dagger,’ etc. Macbeth, Act III. Sc. 4. ‘Thick-coming fancies.’ Ibid. Act V. Sc. 3. ‘Docked and curtailed.’ Cf. ‘We know that they [bishops] hate to be dockt and clipt.’ Milton, Reformation in England, I. ‘Twa lang Scotch miles.’ Cf. ‘We think na on the lang Scots miles.’ Tam O’Shanter, 7. ‘Oh Hell-kite, all?’ Macbeth, Act IV. Sc. 3. David Rizzio. See vol. VIII. p. 459.
‘——Fusbos, give place,
You know you haven’t got a singing face.’
‘Let those love now, who never lov’d before;
Let those who always lov’d, now love the more.’
Parnell, Catullus, The Vigil of Venus.
GUY FAUX
See vol. IV. (The Spirit of the Age), p. 365 and note, and the essay ‘On Persons One Would Wish to Have Seen’ (republished in vol. XII. of the present edition), from which it appears that the subject was suggested to Hazlitt by Lamb. Lamb himself wrote an essay (not republished by him) on the same subject in The London Magazine for November 1823. This essay, in which a chaffing reference is made to Hazlitt’s three papers, was partly founded on an earlier essay ‘On the Probable Effects of the Gunpowder Treason,’ published in The Reflector, 1811. See The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb, ed. E. V. Lucas, I. 236 and notes.