I had little time, and still less inclination, to meditate upon the Colonel's wrath--the theatre had all my thoughts; and indeed it was a day of no common exertion, for our amusements were to conclude with a grand supper on the stage, to which all the elite of Cork were invited.
Wherever I went through the city--and many were my peregrinations--the great placard of the play stared me in the fact; and every gate and shuttered window in Cork, proclaimed, "THE PART OF OTHELLO, BY MR.
LORREQUER." As evening drew near, my cares and occupations were redoubled.

My Iago I had fears for--'tis true he was an admirable Lord Grizzle in Tom Thumb -- but then--then I had to paint the whole company, and bear all their abuse besides, for not making some of the most ill-looking wretches, perfect Apollos; but, last of all, I was sent for, at a quarter to seven, to lace Desdemona's stays.

Start not, gentle reader--my fair Desdemona--she "who might lie by an emperor's side, and command him tasks"-- was no other than the senior lieutenant of the regiment, and who was a great a votary of the jolly god as honest Cassio himself.

But I must hasten on--I cannot delay to recount our successes in detail.

Let it suffice to say, that, by universal consent, I was preferred to Kean; and the only fault the most critical observer could find to the representative of Desdemona, was a rather unlady-like fondness for snuff.