A memory test

Back in the 16th century, there was a famous actor, Charles Macklin, who claimed he could recite anything after reading it once. The dramatist Samuel Foot challenged him with this passage, which Macklin failed at completely.

So she went into the garden to cut a cabbage leaf to make an apple pie, and at the same time a great she-bear came running up the street and popped its head into the shop. "What! No soap?" So she died, and she -- very imprudently -- married the barber. And there were present the Picinninies, the Jobjillies, the Grayulies, and the grand Panjandrum, himself with the little button atop, and they all fell to playing the game of catch-as-catch-can till the gunpowder ran out at the heels of their boots.