The allusions to Cibber in his later poems are frequent.

* [CIBBER AS DULNESS'S FAVOURITE SON] In each she marks her image full expressed, But chief In Bays's monster-breeding breast; Bays, formed by nature stage and town to bless, And act, and be, a coxcomb with success.

Mr. Cibber of Drury Lane.

This last piece was finished by Mr. Cibber to a very great advantage, and now is one of the best comedies in our language.

Every body is aware of the prodigious and unexpected success of Gay's Beggar's Opera on its first production; it was offered to Colley Cibber at Drury Lane, and refused, and the author took it to Rich, at the Lincoln's-Inn-Fields theatre, by whom it was accepted, but not without hesitation.

As Macklin so well said of him, Nature formed Cibber for a coxcomb, and it is quite probable that he took greater delight in being thought a leader of fashion than a writer of charming plays.