*p1713 04 14 dl Cato. Edition of 1713 lists: Cato-Booth; Lucius-Keene; Sempronius-Mills; Juba-Wilks; Syphax-Cibber; Portius-Powell; Marcus-Ryan; Decius-Bowman; Marcia-Mrs Oldfield; Lucia-Mrs Porter; Prologue by $Pope=-Wilks; Epilogue by $Garth=-Mrs Porter.*c1713 04 14 dl [By $Joseph Addison=.] Never Acted before. $G. Berkeley= to $Sir John Percival=, 16 April: On Tuesday last...<i>Cato</i> was acted the first time. I am informed the front boxes were all bespoke for nine days, a fortnight before the play was acted. I was present with $Mr Addison=, and two or three more friends in a side box, where we had a table and two or three flasks of burgundy and champagne, with which the author (who is a very sober man) thought it necessary to support his spirits in the concern he was then under, and indeed it was a pleasant refreshment to us all between the acts....The actors were at the expence of new habits, which were very magnificent. ($Rand=, p. 113. See also $Victor=, II, 29-31, and $Cibber=, I, 122-23, II, 127-33).