He put it to every generous bosom--to every better feeling--to say what consolation was it to old age to be told that you might have made provision at a time which had been neglected--( loud cheers)--and to find it objected, that if you had pleased you might have been wealthy.

He had hitherto been speaking of what, in theatrical language, was called STARS; but they were sometimes falling ones.

There was another class of sufferers naturally and necessarily connected with the theatre, without whom it was impossible to go on.

The sailors have a saying, Every man cannot be a boatswain.

If there must be a great actor to act Hamlet, there must also be people to act Laertes, the King, Rosencrantz, and Guildenstern, otherwise a drama cannot go on.