Life — March 13, 1913 — page 34: what you’re looking at

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-LIFE- it is the best thing I am in possession of, I would, in gratitude, at my decease leave it to the said Mr. Foote; but I know he neither stands in need of it as an author, nor actor, nor as a man; the public have fully proved it in the two first, and his good nature and humanity have secured it to him in the last. Item—I owe some obligations to Mr. Garrick; I therefore bequeath him all the money I die possessed of, as there is nothing on earth he is so very fond of. Jtem.—I have A Comedian’s Will A few weeks before his death, Wes- ton, the celebrated actor, said to a friend, “If you will write for me, I will make my will.” The friend complied, and Weston dictated, not puns, but strong sense and keen satire: |, Thomas Weston, comedian, hat- ing all form and ceremony, shall use none in my wili, but proceed immedi- ately to the explaining my intentions. 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Item.—Dibbie Davis thing at my hands, from the length of our acquaintance; I therefore leave him my constitution; but I am afraid, when I dic, it will be little better than his own. Item.—I leave to the ladies in geo eral, on the stage (if not the reality, yet), the appearance of modesty ; it will serve them on more occasions than they are aware of. Item.—To the gentlemen of the stage, some show of prudence. Item.—To the authors of the present times, a spattering of humor. Item—To the public, a Yates all my claims some- grateful comicbooks.com