There is none other like him, whether it be Nat Field or Ned Alleyn.

Our famous Shakespeare is fortunate, I trow, in having him to play his great characters.

You must see Burbadge, likewise, in the mad Prince of Denmark,--the part was written for him, and fits him exactly.

See him also in gentle and love-sick Romeo, in tyrannous and murderous Macbeth, and in crookback Richard; in all of which, though different, our Dick is equally good.

He hath some other parts of almost equal merit,--as Malevole, in the 'Malcontent;' Frankford, in the 'Woman Killed with Kindness;' Brachiano, in Webster's 'White Devil;' and Vendice, in Cyril Tournour's 'Revenger's Tragedy.'" "I know not what may be the nature of that last-named play," the young man rather sternly remarked; "but if the character of Vendice at all bears out its name, it would suit me.