Note 856:1 — Scene II
Reading edition
It was pleasing to observe, during the Rehearsal all the Actors and Actresses and even the Mechanics on the stage clustering round while these lines were repeating just as if it had been a favourite strain of Music. But from want of depth and volume of voice in Rae, they did not produce an equal effect on the Public till after the Publication—and then they (I understand) were applauded. I have never seen the Piece since the first Night. S. T. C.