The equestrian was Mr. Burroughs, then in training for the bar, and as willing to help Miss Farren now as he was to aid her and her bowl of milk across the market-place at Salisbury. The incipient barrister kept his word. The Chester theatre was crammed to the ceiling; and, as Lizzy said, Mr. Burroughs was her Christmas angel, the thought of whom was always associated in her mind with plumbs, currants, holly---- “And mistletoe,” said the budding counsellor, with a look at which both laughed merrily and honestly. On the Christmas eve of 1776, Miss Farren was seated in Colman’s parlor in London, looking at him while he read two letters of introduction; one from Burroughs, the other from Younger; and both in high praise of the young bearer, for whom they were especially written. My limits will only allow me to say that Lizzy was engaged for the next summer-season at the Haymarket, where she appeared on June 9, 1777, in “She Stoops to Conquer.” She was _Miss Hardcastle_, and Edwin made his first appearance in London with her, in the same piece. Colman would have brought out Henderson too, if he could have managed it. That dignified gentleman, however, insisted on reserving his _début_ for _Shylock_, on the 11th of the same month. And what a joyous season did Lizzy make of it for our then youthful grandfathers. How they admired her double talent in _Miss Hardcastle_! How ecstatic were they with her _Maria_, in the “Citizen!” How ravishedly did they listen to her _Rosetta_! How they laughed at her _Miss Tittup_, in “Bon Ton!” and how they extolled her playfulness and dignity as _Rosina_, of which she was the original representative, in the “Barber of Seville!” It may be remarked that Colman omitted the most comic scene in the piece, _that_ wherein the Count is disguised as a drunken trooper--as injurious to morality! When, in the following year, she played Lady Townley, she was declared the first, and she was then almost the youngest of living actresses. And when she joined the Drury Lane company in the succeeding season, the principal parts were divided between herself, Miss Walpole, Miss P. Hopkins, and _Perdita_ Robinson. Not one of this body was then quite twenty years of age! Is not this a case wherein to exclaim-- “O mihi præteritos referat si Jupiter annos?”