MEMOIRS

OF

SAMUEL FOOTE, Esq.

WITH

A COLLECTION

OF HIS GENUINE

BON-MOTS, ANECDOTES, OPINIONS, &c.

MOSTLY ORIGINAL.

AND

THREE OF HIS DRAMATIC PIECES,

Not published in his Works.

IN THREE VOLUMES.

VOL. II.

BY WILLIAM COOKE, Esc.

- A merrier man
I never spent an hour's talk withal.
His eye begat occasion for his wit;
For every object that the one did catch,
The other turn'd to a mirth-moving jest.”

SHAKSPEARE.

London :
PRINTED FOR RICHARD PHILLIPS,

NO. 6, BRIDGE-STREET, BLACKFRIARS.

1805,

PRINTED BY JOYCE GOLD, SHOE LANE,

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MEMOIRS

OF

SAMUEL FOOTE.

REMARKS ON HIS PRIVATE AND PUBLIC

CHARACTER.

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FOOTE was in his person about the middle size, rather clumsily made; with a broad Aeshy face, that would be reckoned both vulgar and unmeaning, but for a certain archness in his eye, which at once overcame all other appearances, and instantly proclaimed him the genuine humourist. There are several prints of him both in his dramatic and private character, none of which are unlike; but the most perfect is the French print published immediately after one of his trips from Paris, and which is prefixed to these Memoirs.

He married early in life, but had no