"it was a test of virtue to disdain what he disdained." After his death, by falling from a horse in France, the decayed tragedy queen published the play. The old and favoured servant of the public modestly says, that her "powers of contributing to their amusement are no more," but that she "always retains a grateful sense of the indulgence she had received from those who have had the goodness to accept her inclination and endeavours to please, as real merit." Nothing could be more modest, but the truth is that this was written _for_ Mrs. Porter by Horace Walpole. The subscription list was well filled,--the Countess Cowper, whose letters figure in Mrs. Delany's memoirs, taking fourscore copies. Let us now return to the renewed struggles of the rival houses, made fiercer by the rise of a new actor. FOOTNOTES: [34] Verbruggen died before Betterton. [35] Should be on the 26th. [36] Davies and Murphy both give the name as "Lyddal." [37] Lyddal. [38] Should read:--"Millamour, created by him in Fielding's 'Wedding Day,' Lothario, Wildair." [39] This list is very inaccurate. It is obviously taken from Genest, iv. 38, but Dr. Doran has mistaken the meaning of Genest's list, which includes only those nights for which the bill is not given in the text. The record should stand thus:--Hamlet, fifteen times; Richard and Bayes, fourteen; Archer, eleven; Lear, seven; Fondlewife and Hastings, five; Chamont, four; Plume, five; Clodio, four; Pierre, three; Abel Drugger, four or five times, it cannot be decided which. Then the Schoolboy must be added to the list of occasional characters; and it should be noted that there are no bills for April 1st, 2nd, and 3rd. [Illustration: A PIT ADMISSION CHECK.] CHAPTER VI. RIVALRY; AND ENTER, SPRANGER BARRY.