Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 44065-h.htm or 44065-h.zip: (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/44065/44065-h/44065-h.htm) or (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/44065/44065-h.zip) Images of the original pages are available through Internet Archive. See https://archive.org/details/anapologyforlife02cibbuoft Project Gutenberg has the other volume of this work. Volume I: see http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/44064 Transcriber's note: Text enclosed by underscores is in italics (_italics_). A carat character is used to denote superscription. A single character following the carat is superscripted (example: y^m). Multiple superscripted characters are enclosed by curly brackets (example: 30^{th}). The scribal abbreviation found in Footnote 56 is represented by the notation {c~o}. AN APOLOGY FOR THE LIFE OF MR. COLLEY CIBBER. _VOLUME THE SECOND._ _NOTE._ _510 copies printed on this fine deckle-edge demy 8vo paper for England and America, with the portraits as India proofs after letters._ _Each copy is numbered, and the type distributed._ _No._ 368 [Illustration: COLLEY CIBBER AS LORD FOPPINGTON.] AN APOLOGY FOR THE LIFE OF MR. COLLEY CIBBER _WRITTEN BY HIMSELF_ A NEW EDITION WITH NOTES AND SUPPLEMENT BY ROBERT W. LOWE _WITH TWENTY-SIX ORIGINAL MEZZOTINT PORTRAITS BY R. B. PARKES, AND EIGHTEEN ETCHINGS BY ADOLPHE LALAUZE_ _IN TWO VOLUMES_ VOLUME THE SECOND LONDON JOHN C. NIMMO 14, KING WILLIAM STREET, STRAND MDCCCLXXXIX Chiswick Press PRINTED BY CHARLES WHITTINGHAM AND CO. TOOKS COURT, CHANCERY LANE, LONDON, E.C. CONTENTS. CHAPTER X. PAGE THE RECRUITED ACTORS IN THE HAY-MARKET ENCOURAG'D BY A SUBSCRIPTION, ETC. 1 CHAPTER XI. SOME CHIMÆRICAL THOUGHTS OF MAKING THE STAGE USEFUL, ETC. 24 CHAPTER XII. A SHORT VIEW OF THE OPERA WHEN FIRST DIVIDED FROM THE COMEDY, ETC. 50 CHAPTER XIII.