Colley Cibber as Pistol in Henry V
Cibber was a noted actor-manager, though no respecter of Shakespeare's scripts, which he repeatedy mutilated (see the Pope section of Gallery 12, sub-album 8, image 9). He excelled in comic roles. Courtesy of the Yorck Project, under GNU Free Document License. See also the Braggart Soldier clip in this site's Video Gallery.