So she went into the garden to cut a cabbage-leaf, to make an apple-pie; and at the same time a great she-bear, coming up the street, pops its head into the shop. 'What! no soap?' So he died, and she very imprudently married the barber.

Of mimicry and Methodists

Late in 1757 Foote faced himself in the guise of young actor and mimic Tate Wilkinson. Having turned his satire on Englishmen abroad and actresses at home Foote pointed his daggered pen towards himself other writers and the condition of the "starving writer" in his play The Author which premiered at Drury Lane on 5 February 1757. The Archbishop agreed on the condition that it should be publiSamuel Footed "Revised and Corrected by the Archbishop of Canterbury.