Betterton's Essay

The "best piece" of Betterton, for which T. J. L. inquires (p. 68.), is contained in his Life, printed by Gosling, 1710; in fact, this is merely a vehicle to intriduce the treatise, the Life filling only from p. 5. to 11., and thus concluding: —"He was bury'd with great decency in Westminster Abbey." "The year before his death, (he) being at his country house in Reading, my friend and I travelled that way.... One day, after dinner, we retired to his garden, and fell into the discourse of acting." Thus is introduced his *Essay*, &c., continuing to p. 174., where it abruptly ends thus: —"After t…