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Siddons in "Isabella." Mrs. Siddons first played this part at Drury Lane on October 10, 1782. The play was "Isabella," a version by Garrick of Southerne's "Fatal Marriage." Mrs. Siddons also appeared frequently as Isabella in "Measure for Measure;" but Lamb clearly says "in" Isabella, meaning the play. Lamb's sonnet, in which he collaborated with Coleridge, on Mrs.

But stay; me thinks some Vizard-Mask I see Cast out her Lure from the mid Gallery: About her all the fluttering Sparks are rang'd; The Noise continues, though the Scene is chang'd: Now growling, sputt'ring, wauling, such a clutter! 'Tis just like Puss defendant in a Gutter. And again, in his Prologue to Southerne's The Disappointment , he has:

Prose Works, vol. xx. pp. 374-6. Southerne's Fatal Marriage. In the Gamester by Moore. Sir Samuel Shepherd. See ante, vol. i. p. 51 n. Sir Robert Preston, Bart., died in May 1834, aged ninety-five. J.G.L. Heriot's Hospital, Edinburgh. See ante, p. 279 note, and for sketch of Adam Rolland of Gask, Cockburn's Memorials, pp. 360-3.

Perhaps, too, he was soothed by the companionship of persons whose rank may have flattered his vanity, while unlike Diderot and his old literary friends in Paris, they entered into no competition with him in the peculiar sphere of his own genius. Madame de Boufflers, indeed, wrote a tragedy, but he told her gruffly enough that it was a plagiarism from Southerne's Oroonoko.

His name not infrequently occurs to the graceful lyrics with which he supplied the theatre. There are some pretty lines of his, 'Corinna, I excuse thy face', in Act v of Southerne's The Wives Excuse; or, Cuckolds make Themselves ; and a still better song, 'Bright Cynthia's pow'r divinely great, which was sung by Leveridge in the second act of Southerne's Oroonoko , came from his prolific pen.