[In 1806], in conjunction with Attwood, I composed for Covent Garden, an 
operatic play, called "Adrian and Orrila." Cooke played the part of the Prince 
in it, and the very deuce he had liked to have played with it : for, on the 
morning of the day on which the piece was to be performed, he came to rehearsal 
so intoxicated, that he could scarcely stand. Both the author and myself were 
on the stage, alarmed, as may well be imagined, for the fate of a play, the 
principal serious character of which, was to be performed by a man dead 
drunk.