For tho’ we Actors, one and all, agree
Boldly to struggle for our -- vanity,
If want comes on, importance must retreat;
Our first great ruling passion is - to eat.
David Garrick, Occasional Prologue (1750, Drury Lane)
A Famble, a Tattle and two Popps, Had my Boman when he was ta'en; But had he not bouz'd in the Diddle Shops, He'd still be in Drury Lane.
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