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The Daily Dispatch: June 8, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 3 (search)
athized with him, saying that it was then time for him to be at the theatre, to dress for King Lear. Garrick, in a languid and whining tone, told the doctor that he was too much indisposed to perform himself, but that there was an actor named Marr, so like him in figure, face, and so admirable a mimic, that he had ventured to trust the part to him, and he was sure the audience would not perceive the difference. Pretending to be worse, he requested Monsey to leave the room, that he might gem, Garrick jumped out of bed and hastened to the theatre. Monsey attended the performance. Having left Garrick in bed, he was bewildered by the scene before him, sometimes doubting and sometimes being astonished at the resemblance of Garrick and Marr. At length, finding that the audience were convinced of Garrick's identity, Monsey began to suspect that a trick had been practiced, and hurried to Garrick's house at the end of the play; but Garrick had been too quick for him, and was found by M