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Show ^ P R E F A C E. The following Lines were added by theA^ thor upon the occafion of Printing the Play intire, as it was full writ. In this Edition you have the Spartan Dame, «, fhe was originally drawn, with the Lines infertd (with this Mark ") which were left out in the I fiitin. The Play was begun by the Command «f the Duke of Berwick, and encouraged by many w. vcr to be forgotten Favours of that great Man:! was a Lieutenant in his Regiment, when moft d> vantayoufly recommended to him by the famous fonel Sarsfield, ./Ireland, afterwards EvhfU can BU Grace gave me a Company, and Ufa vered in d little time, a generous Difpofitm of m king my Fortune', which, as it -would havebunm hard Matter for a King's Favourite Son to mm-plifh he ^would probably have finijh'd, had not th Changes of the World, deprived his Country of hh Service and his Dependants of his Support. Im then tumbled down from a high Expectation, h afterwards happily laid m the Way of his Gm i ArRylc, who has always been a Promoter of,j ti!$ Intereft, and a Favourer of this Tragedy, its confinement, and dfgrace; which fnee « * ,J,nVd hy the Muftrious Names of^M AvgyitJbivi now an Opportunity rf*»'}]** j the 3d M^asalmoftal, written bP,H^ P R E F A C E. fiiU John Stafford, the moft excellent Father of the prefent moft worthy Earl of Stafford. ITis a* Argument of Hoyefty, that lean reftoreto the Family a Treafure, fa long depofited in my Hands, I mean, the Reputation of the beft Scene in the Play ; But [ have my Reward in the honourable Fame, of having fo noble a Friend in fo mafterly a Writer, to joyn* (with me in the Compqfition. I have but this to fas; ftr/^Bookfeller, that as he has paid me the extraordinary Price of one hundred and twenty Pounds for an imperfect Piclure of the Spartan Dame, fo, fince it is finifh^d, and the Lady at full Length, by the Addition of ft many Lines, which were chiefly tie Lineaments, and, to be prefumed, the Ornaments of her Character, I wijh Jhe may appear as amiable in the Eyes of the Town, for his Advantage, asjhe did for my Profit in his\when Mr. Chet-wood fell fo dangeroufty, fo defperately in love with her and, in defiance of all Rivals, bad fo expenfivc* /y high for her Favour. E 4 PR O |