...instruction," he remarked that it had always been his own and Mrs. Barry's practice " to consult e'en the most indifferent poet in any part we have thought fit to accept of. And I may say it of her," he continues, " that she has often so exerted herself in an indifferent part that her...

...any Instruction... Whereas it has always been mine and Mrs. Barry's Practice to consult e'en the most indifferent Poet in any Part we have thought fit to accept of; and I may say it of her, she has so often exerted her self in an indifferent Part, that her Acting has given...

...and Elizabeth Barry never embarked upon the study of a role without first consulting 'even the most indifferent poet in any part we have thought fit to accept of,' a custom, he laments, overlooked by the new generation of actors.3' Betterton 's remark suggests that...