CHAPTER XII. DRURY LANE.

Drury House--Donne’s Vision--Donne in his Shroud--The Queen of Bohemia--Brave Lord Craven--An Anecdote of Gondomar--Drury Lane Poets--Nell Gwynn--Zoffany--The King’s Company--Memoranda by Pepys--Anecdotes of Joe Haines--Mrs. Oldfield’s Good Sense--The Wonder of the Town--Quin and Garrick--Barry and Garrick--The Bellamy-- The Siddons--Dicky Suett--Liston’s Hypochondria--The First Play--Elliston’s Tears--The End of a Man about Town--Edmund Kean--Grimaldi--Kelly and Malibran--Keeley and Harley--Scenes at Drury Lane--“Wicked Will Whiston”--Henley’s Butchers--“Il faut vivre”--Henley’s Sermons--The Leaden Seals pp. 287-348