So you called Mr.Waife 'Gentleman Waife;' and if you had not been an astrologer you would have been puzzled to see him in such a calling." "Ay, that's it; for he warn't like any as we ever see on these boards hereabouts; and yet he warn't exactly like a Lunnon actor, as I have seen 'em in Lunnon, either, but more like a clever fellow who acted for the spree of the thing.

He had sich droll jests, and looked so comical, yet not commonlike, but always what I calls a gentleman,--just as if one o' ye two were doing a bit of sport to please your friends.

Well, he drew hugely, and so he did, every time he came, so that the great families in the neighbourhood would go to hear him; and he lodged in my house, and had pleasant ways with him, and was what I call a scollard.
But still I don't want to deceive ye, and I should judge him to have been a wild dog in his day.

Mercury ill-aspected,--not a doubt of it.
Last year it so happened that one of the great gents who belong to a Lunnon theatre was here at fair-time.

Whether he had heard of Waife chanceways, and come express to judge for hisself, I can't say; like eno'.