CHYLE

term applied to the partly digested food in the small intestine. actor and dramatist; joined Better ton’s company at Drury Lane, 1690; made great reputation as Lord Fopping ton in Vanbrugh’s Relapse; eventually became a ociated with management of Drury Lane; prepared numerous selections of Shakespeare’s plays; his own plays had also considerable vogue, and include Love's Last Shift, The Carele Husband, She Would and She Would Not. His famous Apology, 1740, is of considerable value for its criticism of the contemporary stage, and for sidelights upon persons of eminence, Eng. actor and dramatist; s. of the above; famous as actor and manager of Drury Lane and Covent Garden; d. by shipwreck.