Meanwhile, a success off the stage secured him as much happiness as, on it, he had acquired wealth and reputation. The home he had kept with Susan Mountfort was broken up. In the course of this "intimate alliance of strict friendship," as the moral euphuists called it, Booth had acted with remarkable generosity towards the lady. In the year 1714 they bought several tickets in the State Lottery, and agreed to share equally whatever fortune might ensue. Booth gained nothing; the lady won a prize of £5000, and kept it. His friends counselled him to claim half the sum, but he laughingly remarked that there had never been any but a verbal agreement on the matter; and since the result had been fortunate for his friend, she should enjoy it all. A truer friend he found in Miss Santlow, the "Santlow famed for dance," of Gay. From the _ballet_ she had passed to the dignity of an actress, and Booth had been enamoured of her "poetry of motion" before he had played Worthy to her Dorcas Zeal. He described her, with all due ardour, in an _Ode on Mira, dancing_,--as resembling Venus in shape, air, mien, and eyes, and striking a whole theatre with love, when alone she filled the spacious scene. Thus was Miss Santlow in the popular Cato's eyes:-- "Whether her easy body bend, Or her fair bosom heave with sighs, Whether her graceful arms extend, Or gently fall, or slowly rise, Or returning, or advancing; Swimming round, or side-long glancing; Gods, how divine an air Harmonious gesture gives the fair." Her grace of motion effected more than eloquence, at least so Booth thought, who thus sang the nymph in her more accelerated steps to conquest:-- "But now the flying fingers strike the lyre, The sprightly notes the nymph inspire. She whirls around! she bounds! she springs! As if Jove's messenger had lent her wings. Such Daphne was.... Such were her lovely limbs, so flushed her charming face! So round her neck! her eyes so fair! So rose her swelling chest! so flow'd her amber hair! While her swift feet outstript the wind, And left the enamour'd God of Day behind."