" Later on in this number (p. 70), Steele says that
Bullock had a peculiar talent of looking like a fool, and in No. 188 he
compares Bullock and Pinkethman in a satirical vein.]
[Footnote 138: Perhaps Colonel Hunter, afterwards Governor of New York;
or Colonel Brett, one of the managers of Drury Lane Theatre.]
[Footnote 139: See No. 34.]
[Footnote 140: The pun is, of course, on the word "unmarred."]
[Footnote 141: By Thomas Shadwell, 1676.]
[Footnote 142: See note on p. 67, above.]
No. 8. [STEELE.
From _Tuesday, April 26._ to _Thursday, April 28_, 1709.
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Wills Coffee-house, April 26.
The play of "The London Cuckolds"[143] was acted this evening before a
suitable audience, who were extremely well diverted with that heap of
vice and absurdity. The indignation which Eugenio, who is a gentleman
of a just taste, has, upon occasion of seeing human nature fall so low
in their delights, made him, I thought, expatiate upon the mention of
this play very agreeably. "Of all men living," said he, "I pity players
(who must be men of good understanding to be capable of being such) that
they are obliged to repeat and assume proper gestures for representing
things, of which their reason must be ashamed, and which they must
disdain their audience for approving.
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