e roles. Another famous Willmore was Will
Mountford, of whom Dibdin relates, 'When he played Mrs. Behn's dissolute
character of The Rover, it was remarked by many, and particularly by
Queen Mary, that it was dangerous to see him act, he made vice so
alluring.'

Amongst the more notable representations of the eighteenth century we
find:-- _Drury Lane; 18 February, 1703._ Willmore by Wilks; Hellena,
Mrs. Oldfield; repeated on 15 October of the same year. _Haymarket; 20
January, 1707._ Willmore by Verbruggen; Blunt, Underhill; Hellena, Mrs.
Bracegirdle; Angelica, Mrs. Barry; Florinda, Mrs. Bowman. _Drury Lane;
22 April, 1708._ Willmore by Wilks; Blunt, Estcourt; Frederick, Cibber;
Hellena, Mrs. Oldfield; Angelica, Mrs. Barry; Florinda, Mrs. Porter.
_Drury Lane; 30 December, 1715._ Willmore, Wilks; Blunt, Johnson;
Hellena, Mrs. Mountfort; Angelica, Mrs. Porter. _Drury Lane; 6 March,
1716._ Don Pedro, Quin; Frederick, Ryan; Florinda, Mrs. Horton.
_Lincoln's Inn Fields; 5 April, 1725._ 'Never acted there.' Performed
for Ryan's benefit. Willmore, Ryan; Belvile, Quin; Blunt, Spiller;
Hellena, Mrs. Bullock; Angelica, Mrs. Parker. _Covent Garden;
9 November, 1748._ Willmore, Ryan; Blunt, Bridgewater; Hellena, Mrs.
Woffington; Angelica, Mrs. Horton. To make this performance more
attractive there was also presented 'a musical entertainment', entitled,
_Apollo and Daphne_, which had been originally produced at Lincoln's Inn
Fields in 1726. _Covent Garden; 19 February, 1757._ 'Not acted twenty
years.' Willmore, Smith; Belvile, Ridout; Frederick, Clarke; Don
Antonio, Dyer; Blunt, Shuter; Hellena, Mrs. Woffington; Angelica, Mrs.
Hamilton; Florinda, Mrs. Elmy. This, the latest revival, was performed
with considerable expense, and proved successful, being repeated no less
than ten times during the season. Wilkinson says that Shuter acted Blunt
very realistically, and, as the stage directions of Act iii require,
stripped to his very drawers.

On 8 March, 1790, J. P. Kemble presented at Drury Lane a pudibond
alteration of _The Rover_, which he dubbed _Love in Many Masks_ (8vo,
1790). It was well received, and acted eight times; in the following
season once. Willmore was played by Kemble himself; Belvile, Wroughton;
Blunt, Jack Bannister; Stephano, Suett; Hellena, Mrs. Jordan; Angelica,
Mrs. Ward; Florinda, Mrs. Powell; Valeria, Mrs. Kemble; Lucetta, Miss
Tidswell. It is not entirely worthless from a purely technical point of
view, but ye