herent, and carried on by a story."

As I have shown above, Rich had, like many other people, his own
particular little idiosyncrasies, and when in the season 1746-7 he
netted nearly L9,000 from his Pantomimes, to the chagrin of Garrick and
Quin, he was very angry and much annoyed because he, as Harlequin, had
contributed little or nothing. Another mannerism of his was to despise
the regular drama on these occasions, and he has been known to look at
the packed audience through a small hole in the curtain, and then
ejaculate, "Ah! you are there, you fools, are you? Much good may it do
you!"

Rich used to address everyone as "Mister." On one occasion Foote, being
incensed at being so addressed, asked Rich why he did not call him by
his name. "Don't be angry," says Rich, "I sometimes forget my own name."
"I know," replied Foote, "that you can't write your own name, but I
wonder you should forget it."

The first of Rich's successes was "Harlequin Sorcerer." On its
production Pope wrote:--

"Behold a sober sorcerer rise
Swift to whose wand a winged volume flies;
All sudden, gorgon's hiss and dragon's glare,
And ten horned fiends and giants rush to war.
Hell rises, heaven descends, and dance on earth,
Gods, imps and monsters, music, rage and mirth,
A fire, a jig, a battle, and a ball,
Till one wide conflagration swallows all;
Thence a new world to nature's laws unknown,
Breaks out refulgent with a heaven its own;
Another Cynthia her new journey runs,
And other planets circle after suns.
The forests dance, the rivers upwards rise,
Whales sport in woods, and dolphins in the skies;
At last, to give the whole creation grace,
Lo! one vast egg produces human race."

Of Harlequin, in "Harlequin Sorcerer," being hatched from an egg by the
rays of the sun. This has been called a master-piece of Rich's Miming
"From the first chipping of the egg (says Jackson) his receiving of
motion, his feeling of the ground, his standing upright, to his quick
Harlequin trip round the empty shell, through the whole progression,
every limb had its tongue, and every motion a voice."

As probably occurring in "Harlequin Sorcerer," there is an amusing
incident. The belief in the possibility of a supernatural appearance on
the stage existed (says an old writer) about the beginning of the
eighteenth century. A dance of infernals having to be exhibited, they
were represented in dress