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The Life and Adventures of Peg Woffington THE LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF PEG WOFFINGTON " A cup oftea^ Sir" said she Painted by B. Wesley Rand of €nglanb Peg Woffington Volume II. Written by J. Fitzgerald M o 1 1 o y The Grolier Society London EDITION DE LUXE Limited to One Thousand Copies CONTENTS CHAPTER I. Goldsmith in London — Physician, Usher, and Hack Writer — the Monthly Review — In Green Court Arbour — Beginning the World at Thirty-one — Letters to His Friends in Ireland — The Great City by Night — John- son's Garret — Drinking Tea with Mrs. Williams — The Great Mr. Richardson I CHAPTER 11. Charles Macklin and His Tavern — The British Inquisition — Foote's Most Excellent Wit — Macklin's Pupils — Foote as an Actor — The Diversions of the Morning — Drinking a Dish of Chocolate with the Wit — His Mimicry — Young Tate Wilkinson and Peg Woffington — Her Anger and Resentment — The Mimic Mimicked — Wilkinson, Foote, and Garrick — A Night at Drury Lane — The Mirror at Covent Garden — Rich, Foote, Garrick, and Wilkinson ....... 30 CHAPTER III. Spranger Barry — His Debut in Dublin — Arrival in Lon- don — His Personal Beauty and Sweetness of Voice — Plays at Drury Lane — His Personation of Othello — Dissatisfied with Garrick — Goes to Covent Garden — The Rival Romeos — The Rival Juliets — Excitement of viii CONTENTS PAGB the Town — Tragedies Produced by Garrick — Monsieur Jean Noverre — The Chinese Festival — George II. at the Playhouse — His Impressions of Richard III. — Riot at Drury Lane 74 CHAPTER IV. Peg Woffington's Last Years at Covent Garden — Her Famous Characters — The Comedy of " The Careless Husband " — Introduction of a Scene from Real Life — Its Sparkling Dialogue — Its Plot and Characters — Peg Woffington as Lady Betty Modish — Opinion of an Anonymous Critic — Her Last Night — Cibber, Quin, Barry, Sir Charles Hanbury Williams, and Lady Coventry — The Curtain Descends upon Peg Wofi&ngton's Life . loi Verses Dedicated to Peg Woffington . 133 MRS. CATHERINE CLIVE CHAPTER I. The Raftor Family — Kitty Introduced to the Stage — Engaged by Cibber — Her Success in "Love in a Riddle" — Her Ballad Singing — Great Fiasco of the Piece — Her Marriage to Mr. Clive 167 CHAPTER II. Struggle with Mrs. Cibber for the Part of " Polly " — How the Town Amused Itself with Their Contentions — The " " Revolt against Manager Highmore ; Kitty's Straight- forward Behaviour — The Praises of Fielding and Others — Separates from Mr. Clive ; Visits Dublin . 186 CHAPTER III. Revolt against Fleetwood, Headed by Garrick — Mrs. Clive " " Joins the Deserters — Her Appeal to the Town . 203 CONTENTS IX PAGE CHAPTER IV. Mrs. Clive Engaged by Garrick — Her Style of Acting Described — Disappearance of "the Chambermaid" as a Character — Breadth of Acting — Her Quarrels with " Peg " Woffington — " Scenes " between the Ladies De- scribed — Quarrels with Woodward — with Garrick — Amantiiim IrcB . .217 CHAPTER V. " Lady Riot " — Specimens of Bow China — Dispute with Garrick — Foote as Othello, and Clive as Portia — " Bayes in Petticoats " — The " Rosciad " — Lady Bab — The Clandestine Marriage 238 CHAPTER VL Continued Wranglings with Garrick — Correspondence — 111 Spelling — " Quaviling " — Fined for Absence — " Acting a Gridiron " — Doctor Johnson — Retirement from the Stage 251 CHAPTER VIL " Twickenham — Little Strawberry Hill — " Jemmy Raftor — Friendship with Walpole — Miss Pope . 269 CHAPTER VIII. Battle with " the Taxes " — Letter to Miss Pope — Colman — Last Letter to Garrick — Mr. Cole — Story of a Foot- man — Death of Mrs. Clive 282 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS PAGR " " A CUP OF TEA, SIR ? . Frontispiecc Portrait of Peg Woffington , ... 40 Mrs. Garrick (Violette) 50 COLLEY ClBBER 112 Kitty Clive 163 The Greenroom Scuffle 229 " Little Strawberry Hill " .... 250 THE LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF PEG WOFFINGTON CHAPTER I. Goldsmith in London — Physician, Usher, and Hack Writer — the Monthly Review — In Green Court Arbour — Beginning the World at Thirty-one — Letters to His Friends in Ireland . — The Great City by Night — Johnson's Garret — Drinking Tea with Mrs. Williams — The Great Mr. Richardson. [ORE than ten years later, another man of genius, who was destined to become one of the most poUshed writers of the age, one of the most delightful poets of his cen- tury, might be seen pushing his sad, slow way through the crowded, friendless streets of London. This was the simple-minded, tender-hearted Oliver Goldsmith. He had landed in Dover from his foreign travels in February, 1756, and for twelve weary days had journeyed to London, footsore and sick of heart ; now acting in a barn with some strolling players, and again begging employment from an apothecary, that he might not starve before reaching the great city which was to be the scene of his future keen privations, sordid 2 PEG WOFFINGTON humiliations, brief triumphs, and premature death. Penniless and almost hopeless, he, on his arrival, herded by night among the beggars in Axe Lane, and by day wandered from one druggist's shop to another, humbly asking them to let him pound their mortars, spread their ointments, and run of their messages ; but " his threadbare coat," says Percy, "his uncouth figure, and his Hibernian dialect caused him to meet with repeated refusals." At last there came a day when one Jacob, living at the corner of Monument Yard in Fish Street Hill, a man who had more compassion in his heart than those to whom poor Goldsmith had previously applied, gave him employment, and he rose from being an apothecary's drudge to become a " physi- cian in a humble way." As such he might be seen going his round in the poor districts, clad in a suit of green velvet and gold, well-worn and tar- nished in the previous service of some more for- tunate master ; in which array he was encountered by his old schoolfellow Beatty, whom, in the face of all appearances, he assured that he was practis- ing physic and doing very well indeed. Presently this faded finery was exchanged for a more sober suit of black velvet, which was neither new nor perfect ; for on the left breast was a patch, which it was the poor physician's greatest anxiety to keep covered with his hat whilst attending his humble patients, declining their polite efforts to relieve him of its care. " But this constant position," says PEG WOFFINGTON 3 Prior, who tells the story, " becoming noticed, and the cause being soon known, occasioned no little merriment at his expense." Now it happened that amongst his patients was a workman in the employment of Samuel Richard- son, the admired author, and, what was more to the purpose, the eminent publisher, who, noting the physician's neediness and suspecting his hun- ger, ventured to hint that, as his master was ever ready to do a kind turn to men of parts, he might be of help to Mr. Goldsmith. The mention of the printer's name stirred the physician's heart ; for already he had dreams of becoming an author, and had, indeed, written a great tragedy, of which the world was never destined to hear. An intro- duction was therefore speedily established by this humble means between the starving physician and the prosperous publisher, who gave him employ- ment as corrector for his press. Moreover, he gradually admitted him to his familiar intercourse and introduced him to his friends, one of whom was Doctor Young, author of " Night Thoughts." This was indeed a great help to poor Goldsmith, who was now enabled to carry on his work as cor- rector for the press at the same time that he practised physic, an employment which had barely prevented starvation, and in which he beheld no chance of improvement. For Goldsmith's manner lacked the polish and his person the air of pros- perity which are essential commendations in physi- 4 PEG WOFFINGTON cians to the rich ; moreover, his honesty, as Prior significantly remarks, " despised that intrigue which some of his brethren find a convenient substitute for talent." So few and small indeed were his fees that he soon abandoned such poor practice as was his for an ushership at a school kept by a dissenting minister, one Doctor Milner, which was obtained for him by that gentleman's son. Here he underwent the drudgery, then even more than now inseparable to such an occupation, with a brave spirit and a cheerfulness of disposition which made him alike the delight of his pupils and the friend of his employers. His salary was small, indeed, and was mostly drawn in advance, in order that it might be spent in giving charity to beggars, or in buying fruits and sweetmeats for the boys ; so that when quarter-day came around he had little to receive, and this little went with alarming rapidity. " Had you not better," said Mrs. Milner to him one day, " let me keep your money for you, as I " do for some of the young gentlemen ? "In truth,' madam," replied the simple-hearted usher, "there is equal need." It was at Doctor Milner's table that he became acquainted with personages whose very names were spoken by Grub Street authors with bated breath. These were Mr. and Mrs. Griffiths, who kept a book-shop at the sign of " The Dunciad," in Pater- noster Row. Griffiths was not only a bookseller, PEG WOFFINGTON S but was likewise a printer, and the projector and proprietor of the Mojtthly Review, and in his vari- ous avocations was aided by his spouse, a lady of literary tastes. The worthy pair have been de- scribed by an irreverent pen in Smollett's Critical RevieWy probably, indeed, by that ingenious author, the one as ** an illiterate bookseller," and the other as "an antiquated Sappho, a Sibyl, or, rather, a Pope Joan in taste and literature, pregnant with abuse begot by rancour under the canopy of igno- rance," Now Goldsmith, who had found time during the intervals of his hard toil to produce manuscripts which were wont to fill the pockets of his rusty velvet suit until his ungainly figure looked ridiculous, saw in the worthy bookseller and his wife beings who, if they were illiterate, yet had the fateful power of enabling him to fulfil his long-cherished desire of becoming an author.
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