[393] See ante, ii. 73, 228, 248; iii. 4 and June 15, 1784.

[394] See ante, i. 167, note 1.

[395] Booth acted Cato, and Wilks Juba when Addison’s Cato was brought out.  Pope told Spence that ’Lord Bolingbroke’s carrying his friends to the house, and presenting Booth with a purse of guineas for so well representing the character of a person “who rather chose to die than see a general for life,” carried the success of the play much beyond what they ever expected.’  Spence’s Anec. p. 46.  Bolingbroke alluded to the Duke of Marlborough.  Pope in his Imitations of Horace, 2 Epist. i. 123 introduces ‘well-mouth’d Booth.’

[396] See ante, iii. 35, and under Sept. 30, 1783.

[397] ’Garrick used to tell, that Johnson said of an actor who played Sir Harry Wildair at Lichfield, “There is a courtly vivacity about the fellow;” when, in fact, according to Garrick’s account, “he was the most vulgar ruffian that ever went upon boards."’ Ante, ii. 465.

[398] Mrs. Cibber was the sister of Dr. Arne the musical composer, and the wife of Theophilus Cibber, Colley Cibber’s son.  She died in 1766, and was buried in the cloisters of Westminster Abbey.  Baker’s Biog.  Dram. i. 123.

[399] See ante, under Sept. 30, 1783.

[400] See ante, i. 197, and ii. 348.

[401] Johnson had set him to repeat the ninth commandment, and had with great glee put him right in the emphasis. Ante, i. 168.

[402] Act iii. sc. 2.

[403] Boswell’s suggestion is explained by the following passage in Johnson’s Works, viii. 463:—­’Mallet was by his original one of the Macgregors, a clan that became about sixty years ago, under the conduct of Robin Roy, so formidable and so infamous for violence and robbery, that the name was annulled by a legal abolition.’

[404] See ante, iii. 410, where he said to an Irish gentleman:—­’Do not make an union with us, Sir.  We should unite with you, only to rob you.  We should have robbed the Scotch, if they had had anything of which we could have robbed them.’

[405] It is remarkable that Dr. Johnson read this gentle remonstrance, and took no notice of it to me.  BOSWELL.  See post, Oct. 12, note.

[406] St. Matthew, v. 44.

[407] It is odd that Boswell did not suspect the parson, who, no doubt, had learnt the evening before from Mr. Keith that the two travellers would be present at his sermon.  Northcote (Life of Reynolds, ii. 283) says that one day at Sir Joshua’s dinner-table, when his host praised Malone very highly for his laborious edition of Shakespeare, he (Northcote) ’rather hastily replied, “What a very despicable creature must that man be who thus devotes himself, and makes another man his god;” when Boswell, who sat at my elbow, and was not in my thoughts at the time, cried out “Oh!  Sir Joshua, then that is me!"’