Event Comment: MMrs Cibber to
Garrick, late Jan.: It is surprising that
dl goes on acting; one night with another, to be sure, they have not received above 40 pounds; the actors are paid only three nights a week; though they play every night. But the top stroke of all was
Macklin's play! It was entirely new-dressed, and no expense saved in the clothes. I shall say nothing of the piece, because you may read it; but be as vain as you will about your playing
Bayes, you never made an audience laugh more than
Henry VII has done. There for the first time I saw your rival,
Mr Goodfellow; I should have said the rival
Mr Lacy wants to make you; do not be quite dispirited about it, for Perkin Warbeck is much below anything I ever yet saw. Here I must ask
Mr Stevens's pardon, to whom I have done injustice, for I think he may dispute the pass downstairs with Perkin, and as his head seems to be the heaviest of the two, I think he has the best right to it.--
Boaden,
Private Correspondence of Garrick, I, 49
Performances
Mainpiece Title: Henry Vii