had in any manufacture of tapestry, he could not be the person meant here, for at this time he had been dead above ten years.  The suite of tapestry, in the Duke of Ancaster’s sale, with Vanderbank’s name to it, mentioned by Walpole, must therefore be supposed to belong to the son, who is said, upon the authority of the French translator of the Tatler, to have represented nature very happily in works of tapestry, and to have been a man inimitable in this way. (See Walpole’s “Anecdotes of Painting,” 1782, vol. v. p. 166.)]

[Footnote 91:  Trick (the early editions have “gigg").]

[Footnote 92:  Waller wrote “Instructions to a Painter” and “Advice to a Painter,” and Denham “Directions to a Painter.”]

[Footnote 93:  Farquhar’s “Beaux’ Stratagem,” 1707.]

[Footnote 94:  Bickerstaff acted the part of the Captain in Mrs. Centlivre’s farce, “A Bickerstaff’s Burying; or, Work for the Upholders” (1713), which was dedicated to the “magnificent Company of Upholders, whom the judicious Censor of Great Britain has so often condescended to mention.”  In the “British Apollo,” vol. ii.  No. 107 (Feb. 27 to March 1, 1710), is a “New Prologue to ‘Don Quixote’ for Mr. Bickerstaff’s Benefit at the Theatre Royal, spoken by himself.”  The prologue ends: 

    “I need not from the ladies fear my doom,
    When it shall thus be said, in my behalf,
    He bears the awful name of BICKERSTAFF.”

In the Daily Courant for Feb. 4, 1710, there was advertised a performance of the “Comical History of Don Quixote” at Drury Lane, “at the desire of Isaac Bickerstaff, Esq., for the benefit of his cousin, John Bickerstaff.”]

[Footnote 95:  George Powell, actor and dramatist, gave way often to drink.  He died in 1714.  Addison praised his acting of tragic parts in No. 40 of the Spectator.  See also No. 31.  An order to the comedians in Dorset Gardens forbade them acting till further order, because they had allowed Powell to play after he was committed for drawing his sword on Colonel Stanhope and Mr. Davenant.  This is dated May 3, 10 Will.  III. (1698); but on May 4 there was another order for the comedians to resume acting. (Lord Chamberlain’s Records, Warrant Book No. 19, p. 80.) Cibber’s remarks on this incident will be found in his “Apology,” chap. x.]

No. 4. [STEELE.

From Saturday April 16, to Tuesday, April 19, 1709.

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It is usual with persons who mount the stage for the cure or information of the crowd about them, to make solemn professions of their being wholly disinterested in the pains they take for the public good.  At the same time, those very men, who make harangues in plush doublets, and extol their own abilities and generous inclinations, tear their lungs in vending a drug, and show no act of bounty, except it be, that they lower a demand of a crown, to six, nay, to one penny.  We have a contempt for such paltry barterers,