[Footnote 58: 'Nokes and Lee:' two celebrated comedians in Charles II.'s reign.]

Mr. Bullock succeeds Nokes in the part of Bubble, and, in my opinion, is not much below him, for he does excellently that kind of folly we call absurdity, which is the very contrary of wit; but next to that is, of all things, properest to excite mirth.