Don Ferdinand _Mr. Mattocks_.
Isaac Mendoza _Mr. Quick_.
Don Jerome _Mr. Wilson_.
Don Antonio _Mr. Dubellamy_.
Father Paul _Mr. Watson_.
Lopez _Mr. Wewitzer_.
Don Carlos _Mr. Leoni_.
Francis _Mr. Fox_.
Lay Brother _Mr. Baker_.

Donna Louisa _Mrs. Mattocks_.
Donna Clara _Mrs. Cargill_. [Footnote: This is incorrect:
it was Miss Brown that played Donna Clara for the first few nights.]
The Duenna _Mrs. Green_.

The run of this opera has, I believe, no parallel in the annals of the
drama. Sixty-three nights was the career of the Beggar's Opera; but the
Duenna was acted no less than seventy-five times during the season, the
only intermissions being a few days at Christmas, and the Fridays in
every week;--the latter on account of Leoni, who, being a Jew, could not
act on those nights.

In order to counteract this great success of the rival house, Garrick
found it necessary to bring forward all the weight of his own best
characters; and even had recourse to the expedient of playing off the
mother against the son, by reviving Mrs. Frances Sheridan's comedy of
The Discovery, and acting the principal part in it himself. In allusion
to the increased fatigue which this competition with The Duenna brought
upon Garrick, who was then entering on his sixtieth year, it was said,
by an actor of the day, that "the old woman would be the death of the