text:  O public! O dear ingenuous public! Think how you might have ceased to delight in even the cosmogony-man if his part had been a hundred times rehearsed in your ears; or what the matchless Lady Blarney and the incomparable Miss Carolina Wilhelmina Amelia Skeggs (I love as old Primrose says to repeat the whole name) might have become as the "light conversationists" of three octavo volumes! Shakspeare was forced to kill Mercutio early in the play lest Mercutio should kill _him_