"Disdainful of those little arts that bind, / In slavish trammels, the inferior mind, / No stage finesse her action shall disgrace, / To trick a generous audience out of praise; / But Truth, and Nature, shall still plead her cause, / And win the tribute of a <em>just</em> applause."
Verses addressed to Mrs. Siddons, on her being engaged at the Theatre-Royal, Drury-Lane, in 1782
Thomas Whalley, <u>Verses addressed to Mrs. Siddons, on her being engaged at the Theatre-Royal, Drury-Lane, in 1782</u> (London: T. Cadell, 1782). &lt;<a href="http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infomark.do?&contentSet=ECCOArticles&type=multipage&tabID=T001&prodId=ECCO&docId=CW110254310&source=gale&userGroupName=viva_uva&version=1.0&docLevel=FASCIMILE">Link to ECCO</a>&gt;