re and
unadulterated.

I am, Mr. Editor, your's, &c.

A SHAKSPEARIAN.

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_A week's journal of a strolling player._

_Monday._ We opened the house with the tragedy of the _distressed
mother_; I played _Orestes_. Our dresses and scenery rather out of
repair, which gave some gentleman occasion to remark; that it would have
been more _apropos_, had we advertised the play by the title of the
_distressed family_.

_Tuesday._ Played George Barnwell. Part of the audience wanted me
hanged: Afterwards did the watchman, and the bailiff in the
_Apprentice_.--Shared thirteen pence three farthings.

_Wednesday._ Played _Jachimo_ in _Cymbeline_. My arms almost
broken by being put into too small a chest. The farce the
_Register-office_--played _Gulwell_.--Shared one shilling.

_Thursday._ Doubled the _Ghost_ and _Rosencrantz_ in _Hamlet_, and
afterwards played _Mogs_ in the _Devil of a Duke_. A gentleman affronted
me by saying I was _the devil of a conjuror_. Shared one shilling and
six pence, and for the first time took my two bits of candles.

_Friday._ I played _Macduff_, and two or three other parts in _Macbeth_,
one of the witches being drunk, we were obliged to make shift with two.
The farce _Miss in her teens_: I was Fribble; and the house barber
having gone off in a pet, because I could not pay him his week's bill, I
was obliged to go on without my hair being dressed.--Shared ten pence
and a candle.

_Saturday. The Orphan._ The manager had taken _Castalio_ himself, and
insisted on my playing _Acasto_. An ignorant country fellow introduced
it only to support Acasto in the third act, stands on the stage, when I
asked "where are all my friends?" answered, "sir, they are at the George
over a mug of ale." We afterwards had the _Padlock_ without music. I
played _Mungo_ and never felt any thing half so much as the favourite
air, "I wish to my heart me was dead."

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_Macklin and Foote._

Macklin once left the stage and set up a tavern and Coffee-house on a
new plan in the piazza, Covent garden. At his dinners every thing was
done by the waiters, on signs made to them by Macklin himself who acted
as chief waiter. One night, being at supper with Foote and some others
at the Bedford, one of the company praised Macklin for the great
regularity of his ordinary, and in particular his manner of directing
his waiters _by signals_. Ay,