*p1727 12 13 dl Double Falshood; or, The Distrest Lovers. Principal Parts-Wilks, Mills, Williams, Corey, Harper, Griffin, Norris, Mrs Porter, Mrs Booth; but edition of 1728 lists: Duke Angelo-Corey; Roderick-Mills; Henriquez-Wilks; Don Bernard-Harper; Camillo-Griffin; Julio-Booth; Citizen-Oates; Master of Flocks-Bridgwater; 1st Shepherd-Norris; 2d Shepherd-Ray; Leonora-Mrs Porter; Violante-Mrs Booth; Prologue by $Phillip Frowde=-Wilks; Epilogue-Mrs Oldfield.*c1727 12 13 dl Written Originally by $Shakespear=. [By $Lewis Theobald=.] $Theophilus Cibber=: [Booth's] Illness...returned soon after his playing <i>King Henry VIII</i>. He was then studying the Part of <i>Julio</i> in <i>the Double Falsehood</i>; he rehearsed it several times,-when the Play begin ready for acting, he was prevented appearing in it, by a Relapse into his former Indisposition.-The Part was supplied a few Nights by $Mr Charles Williams= (a promising Player, who died young) to whom $Mr Booth= had given the Part to study, as doubting the Certainty of his being able to appear in it himself: But, at Mr Theobald's Entreaty (backed by many Gentlemen and Ladies) he good-naturedly (but fatally) disregarded his Indisposition, which was then an intermitting Fever, and acted that Part from the fifth to the twelfth Night; which was alas! the last time of his Appearance on tle Stage.-<i>Lives and Characters</i>, pp. 82-83.