The quarrel was
finally settled in favour of the college in June, 1771.
l. 19. -----
"Go, ask your manager". Colman, the manager of Covent
Garden, was not a prolific, although he was a happy writer of
prologues and epilogues.
l. 32. -----
The quotation is from 'King Lear', Act iii, Sc. 4.
l. 34. -----
In the first version the last line runs:--
And view with favour, the 'Good-natur'd Man.'
EPILOGUE TO 'THE SISTER.'
'The Sister', produced at Covent Garden February 18, 1769, was a comedy
by Mrs. Charlotte Lenox or Lennox, 'an ingenious lady,' says 'The
Gentleman's Magazine' for April in the same year, 'well known in the
literary world by her excellent writings, particularly the Female
Quixote, and Shakespeare illustrated.... The audience expressed their
disapprobation of it with so much clamour and appearance of prejudice,
that she would not suffer an attempt to exhibit it a second time (p.
199).
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