ABSTRACT
Mr. Cooper having consulted his friends, particularly Messrs. Godwin and Holcroft, and they advising him to accept Cooke’s offer of playing for him, he did so, and waiting upon Cooke, invited him to sup with him at his lodgings. The invitation was readily accepted, and the party was made up of Messrs. Godwin, Marshal, Cooke, and Cooper, some accident preventing Holcroft from attending. Godwin and Cooke, unknown to each other, except by the voice of Fame, mutually wished for an interview. Cooke was, however, unusually amusing, and Godwin was interested and pleased by him, during the early part of the evening; but in proportion as the rosy god inspired his votary, he became less interesting to the philosophic skeptic, fairly sunk under Cooke’s oracular eloquence, and gave himself a prey to dull forgetfulness.
