They were hailed as celebrities, the three of them. Hours were spent in preparation for the event. "How long will he be laid up?" "Three or four weeks, if he doesn't peg out during the night. A wide terrace then led to large iron gates,' over which were placed the two celebrated figures of Raving and Melancholy Madness, executed by the elder Cibber, and commemorated by Pope in the Dunciad, in the wellknown lines:— "Close to those walls where Folly holds her throne, And laughs to think Monroe would take her down, Where, o'er the gates, by his famed father's hand, Great Cibber's brazen, brainless brothers stand. Her voice recalled him. I find you were excessively brave, mon pauvre. October arrived; and in another week the court would be sitting at the Old Bailey. Sheppard," cried the carpenter's wife bitterly; "and, I repeat, Bedlam's too good for her.
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