Read it through once

Luckily the haste with which she had started on _Rienzi_ soon subsided, and it was not ready until 1826 when Macready took it and the Cromwellian play with him on an American tour, promising to do nothing with either unless they could be produced in a manner satisfactory to the author. The original intention had been to produce _Rienzi_ at Covent Garden that year, but the idea was abandoned.