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SCG-C.772.044
25 May 1772:13 (1894)
London, March 10. Last night, when Mr. Shuter first entered
in the new comedy at Covent-Garden Theatre, the audience
called upon him to apologize for his being the cause of
delaying the representation of that comedy on Thursday last,
by his getting drunk: on which he retired. The audience,
however, being very boisterous, and renewing their
applications to him, he entered and made the following
speech: "Gentlemen if I have offended you in any shape in
the world, I should be proud to ask pardon. A malicious
report has been propagated, that I got drunk on Thursday
last, and so could not perform: Now it's a damn'd lye-- for
I did not get drunk-- I was here in the morning, rehearsed
my part, and was suddenly taken ill. If any gentleman is
willing to know if I was drunk three days before that-- I
was-- and I ask his pardon for it."-- This speech recalled
the house into good humour, and Mr. Shuter returned to his
part with repeated applauses.
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