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the very speech that.he had just finished. Again, when he
said, “ Is it a dream, or am I mad ?” the laugh exceeded
even its former excess. At length the dying scene came,
and was performed amidst unceasing roars of laughter, in
which several extraordinary sounds mingled, such as crowing
and chuckling like a cock, crying cock-a-doodle-do, &c. till
the curtain fell, and here the play closed, the audience
vociferously and repeatedly, though ineffectually, demand-
ing, by cries of encore, encore, &c. that the death scene
should be re-acted, as it had been on Mr. Coates’s former
performance of Romeo at Cheltenham. Mr. Coates did,
however, appear again, and recited, “ Bucks have at you
all !” in a style somewhat less laughable than his Romeo.
There were some alterations to suit his own particular case •
and an allusion to some of the Cheltenham critics, whom he
supposed to have mixed among the Richmond audience,
had a very good effect. The audience were at last put into
good humour, and they sincerely applauded and called for a
repetition of the address. But Mr. Coates not appearing,
while the encore was ineisted on for a quarter of an hour, the
manager, Mr. Beverley, came before the curtain, dressed for
the character of the Jew, in the afterpiece of the Jew and
Doctor j and having obtained silence, a long dialogue en-
sued : he stated, that Mr. Coates had actually left the house,
therefore could not appear to repeat the performance that
night, but promised that the same should be repeated
another night, which was well received.”
We shall now follow the Amateur to his next representation.
“ Haymarket Theatre.-—Monday, December 8, 1811,
Mr. Cock-a-doodle Coates (from Exeter ’Change) exhibited
himself at this house as the representative of Lothario, in
the Fair Penitent. Public curiosity was very strongly
excited, and every part of the theatre was crowrded at an
early hour. Nearly the whole of the audience appeared to
have been attracted to witness the performance of this
the very speech that.he had just finished. Again, when he
said, “ Is it a dream, or am I mad ?” the laugh exceeded
even its former excess. At length the dying scene came,
and was performed amidst unceasing roars of laughter, in
which several extraordinary sounds mingled, such as crowing
and chuckling like a cock, crying cock-a-doodle-do, &c. till
the curtain fell, and here the play closed, the audience
vociferously and repeatedly, though ineffectually, demand-
ing, by cries of encore, encore, &c. that the death scene
should be re-acted, as it had been on Mr. Coates’s former
performance of Romeo at Cheltenham. Mr. Coates did,
however, appear again, and recited, “ Bucks have at you
all !” in a style somewhat less laughable than his Romeo.
There were some alterations to suit his own particular case •
and an allusion to some of the Cheltenham critics, whom he
supposed to have mixed among the Richmond audience,
had a very good effect. The audience were at last put into
good humour, and they sincerely applauded and called for a
repetition of the address. But Mr. Coates not appearing,
while the encore was ineisted on for a quarter of an hour, the
manager, Mr. Beverley, came before the curtain, dressed for
the character of the Jew, in the afterpiece of the Jew and
Doctor j and having obtained silence, a long dialogue en-
sued : he stated, that Mr. Coates had actually left the house,
therefore could not appear to repeat the performance that
night, but promised that the same should be repeated
another night, which was well received.”
We shall now follow the Amateur to his next representation.
“ Haymarket Theatre.-—Monday, December 8, 1811,
Mr. Cock-a-doodle Coates (from Exeter ’Change) exhibited
himself at this house as the representative of Lothario, in
the Fair Penitent. Public curiosity was very strongly
excited, and every part of the theatre was crowrded at an
early hour. Nearly the whole of the audience appeared to
have been attracted to witness the performance of this