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who is a king, a queen, or some great
personage, usually going off the stage in
distress, or during the emotions of some
strong passion. If Mr. Garrick, in some
of his principal characters, was to sub-
mit to such a humiliating practice, it
would surely be at the expence of the
audience; who would every instant be
told, that it was not Lear, Richard, or
Macbeth whom they saw before them,
but Garrick.
Friday, July 13. This morning I visited
the two Signor Bezozzis, whose talents
are well known to all travellers of taste
in music. Their long and uninterrupted
regard for each other is as remarkable as
their performance. They are brothers;
the eldest seventy, and the youngest up-
wards of sixty. They have so much of
the Idem velle et idem nalle about them,
that they have ever lived together in the
utmost harmony and affection; carrying
their similarity of taste to their very dress,
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