Note 9 — OPERA AND BALLET.
Reading edition
"When the Gallery at the Opera House, on Saturday night, expressed its disapprobation of the crowded stage, Sir John Gallini!!![9] who was part of that crowd, very modestly declared, that, unless the gentlemen behind the scenes left the House, there would be no Opera.—But, upon being asked where the half guineas should remain, if the gentlemen retired, this shark for words recanted his former assertion, and, very composedly, swallowed the gilded pill."—(Morning Post, Apr. 10, 1788.)