British theatre . your manager—Who, me! Your pardon ;Those things are not our fcrj, at Covent-Garden. * The Author, in expettation of an Epilogue from a friendat Oxford, deferred writing one himself till the very last is here ofterred, owes ail its s^iccess to the graceful rrraii-ner of the Adlress wlio spoke it» 104 EPILOGUE. Our authors friends, thus placd at happy distance^Give him good words indeed, but no some unhappy zoighty at some new play^At the pit door .stands elbowing oft, with many a smile, and many a eyes the centre, where his friends s
British theatre . your manager—Who, me! Your pardon ;Those things are not our fcrj, at Covent-Garden. * The Author, in expettation of an Epilogue from a friendat Oxford, deferred writing one himself till the very last is here ofterred, owes ail its s^iccess to the graceful rrraii-ner of the Adlress wlio spoke it» 104 EPILOGUE. Our authors friends, thus placd at happy distance^Give him good words indeed, but no some unhappy zoighty at some new play^At the pit door .stands elbowing oft, with many a smile, and many a eyes the centre, where his friends sit simpering friends, with pleasure in their eyeSySink as he sinks, and as he rises rise :He nods, they nod, he cringes, they grimace ^But not a soul will budge to give him then, uvhclp^d, our bard must now conformTo bide the pelting of this pittiless where you must, be candid where you be each critic the Good Naturd Man. THE END. ^^tir. JEaIOI. OF^^\^]a^<7ICK ^Mriil/. THE EARL OF WARWICK. TRAGEDY,By Dr. FRANKLIN, ADAPTEO FOR THEATRICAL REPRESENTATION, AS fERFORMED AT THE THEATRES-ROYAL,DRURY-LANE AND COVENT-G ARDEN, REGULATED FROM THE PROMPT-BOOKS,By Permission of the Managers, The Lines distinguished by invened Commas, are omitteo m the Reprcsentauon. LONDON Printed for the Proprietors^ under the DireElion of John Bell, %x\t\z%Uhull, Strand,Bookseller to His Royal Highness the Prince of Wale MDccrci;. TEE EARL OF JVAIUVICK. J HE present p)ay is a translation by Dr. Franklinthe GreciaTiy from a tragedy written in French byM. DE LA Harpe. Paul Hiffernan, in the same year,1767, also published a translation——We have notcompared their productions. It will be visible that the manners are not those ofthe peiiod Vvhen the attion passes, and that the whole pidv is \v> the style. The contest of insult between Ekvvakd and VvARv/iCK is in great requestamong our juvt-nile derliimers. The excellence of Mrs. Yates in Franklins ^
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