[Footnote 8: —for dread of sharing in the ridicule.]
[Footnote 9: paid—from the French escot, a shot or reckoning: Dr.
Johnson.]
[Footnote 10: —the quality of players; the profession of the stage.]
[Footnote 11: 'Will they cease playing when their voices change?']
[Footnote 12: Either will should follow here, or like and most must change places.]
[Footnote 13: 'those that write for them'.]
[Footnote 14: —what they had had to come to themselves.]
[Footnote 15: 'to incite the children and the grown players to controversy': to tarre them on like dogs: see King John, iv. 1.]
[Footnote 16: 'No stage-manager would buy a new argument, or prologue, to a play, unless the dramatist and one of the actors were therein represented as falling out on the question of the relative claims of the children and adult actors.']
[Footnote 17: 'Have the boys the best of it?']