OF THE LATE EARL OF BARRYMORE. INCLUDING • A HISTORY OF THE WARGRAVE THEATRICALS, AND ORIGINAL ANECDOTES OF EMINENT PERSONS. BY ANTHONY PASQUIN, ESQ. THIRD EDITION, CORRECTED AND MUCH ENLARGED. Rien n'eft beau que le Vrai, Le Vrai feul elt aimable. LONDON: PRINTED FOR H. D. SYMONDS, N° 20, PATERNOSTER-ROW. ADVERTISEMENT. 4 THE rapid fale of a very large impreffion of this Life, in a few days, has emboldened the Author to render it, in this Edition, more perfect, and he flatters himself more acceptable to the public, by the addition of an hundred original anecdotes.—To remove vulgar prejudices; to oppofe the circulation of unauthorized trash: to eftablish truth, and to reclaim the profligate, were the motives that impelled him to give the world this biographical trifle. One of the greatest Divines of the prefent day has been pleafed to affirm in writing, "That it is the 66 as beft literary prefent that a parent can fend a child, "it combines more morality and pleasantry, than any "other publication extant.” The public are requested to be particular in fending for "PASQUIN'S LIFE OF LORD BARRYMORE," as there are fome catchpenny accounts of him in circulation! THE LIFE OF THE LATE EARL OF BARRYMORE. AH, Friend! the posting years, how fast they flyl Nor can the strictest piety Defer encroaching age, Or Death's refiftless rage: The prince and peasant of this world must be HOR. ODE XIV. IN the fucceeding detail of disjointed anecdotes and reflections, I must require an indulgence from the perufer which I never claimed before, though it might have been uniformly neceffary; that is, as writing now from the heart more than the head!—the abrupt deprivation of the best friend I ever had (and a better no man ever knew) weighs too heavily upon my understanding to admit of those vigilant and frequent appeals to the judgment, which all should make, who would prefer the credit of writing well, to the indulgence of a wild and abandoned forrow. RICHARD, |