"Most humble Servant,
"THOMAS DOGGETT."

Being naturally an encourager of wit, as well as bound to it in the
quality of censor, I returned the following answer:

"MR. DOGGETT,

"I am very well pleased with the choice you have made of so
excellent a play, and have always looked upon you as the best of
comedians; I shall therefore come in between the first and second
act, and remain in the right-hand box over the pit till the end of
the fourth, provided you take care that everything be rightly
prepared for my reception."[28]

[Footnote 26: See No. 1.]

[Footnote 27: The Morocco ambassador made his public entry into London
in April 1706. Don Venturo Zary, another Morocco minister, visited the
Haymarket Theatre on May 4, 1710, with his "attendants in their several
habits, &c., having never as yet appeared in public." There was no play
at Drury Lane Theatre that night (_Postboy_, April 29 to May 2, 1710).]

[Footnote 28: See No. 122.]

No. 121. [ADDISON.

From _Saturday, Jan. 14_, to _Tuesday, Jan. 17, 1709-10_.

----Similis tibi, Cynthia, vel tibi, cujus
Turbavit nitidos extinctus passer ocellos.
JUV., Sat. vi. 7.

* * * * *

_From my own Apartment, January 16._

I was recollecting the remainder of my vision, when my maid came to me,
and told me, there was a gentlewoman below who seemed to be in great
trouble, and pressed very much to see me. When it lay in my power to
remove the distress of an unhappy person, I thought I should very ill
employ my time in attending matters of speculation, and therefore
desired the lady would walk in. When she entered, I saw her eyes full of
tears. However, her grief was not so great as to make her omit rules;
for she was very long and exact in her civilities, which gave me time to
view and consider her. Her clothes were very rich, but tarnished; and
her words very fine, but ill applied. These distinctions made me without
hesitation (though I had never seen her before) ask her, if her lady had
any commands for me? She then began to weep afresh, and with many broken
sighs told me, that their family was in very great affliction. I
beseeched her to compose herself, for that I might possibly be capable
of assisting them. She then cast her eye u