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Show The PREFACE. Town, but when the has ieaa it u r ; Af_ fhali never write any thing lew a cnuug myAFs1onrdthe Saints (your thorough-pac'd ones, I mean „imskTew'd Faces and wry Mouths) I defpatr of them To they are Ftiends ,o no body : They love nothug but their Altars and themfelves: They have too much Zeal o nave any Charity ; they make Debauches in P«- l a Sinners do* in Wine , and are as quan-elfome: m their Religion, as other People are m their Dunk . lo 1 hoTe no body will mind what they fay. But .f any S r w i t h flat plod Shoes, a little Band, greafy Hair fnd a d" y K who is wifer than I, at the Expence oi S forty YeaA older) happens to be offended at a S ^ y o f I Cock and a Bull, and a Pneft and a Bull D o J I beghis pardon with all m y heart-, which, I hoP°e I thai? obtain, by eating my Words, and making Zpublick Recantation. H o therefore for us Sa £ ftftion acknowledge I lyed, when 1 laid they never cui. their Hold • fof in that little time I have l.v'd m f » j T . U God I have feen them forc'd to it ^ o S n ' o n c uf next time I'll fpeak with more Camion and Truth, and only fay, they have very good ^M have offended any honeft Gentlemen of the T o w n V X f c S m i p or good Word is worth d, havTnc-, 1 am very forty for it J I hope they II coucft »easD gently as they can, when they confide 1 have had no other Def.gn, in running a very great W, ( The PREFACE. 5 than to divert (if poflible) fome part of their Spleen in fpite of their Wives and their Taxes. ' One word more about the Bawdy, and I have done. I own the firft Night this thing was acted,' fome Indecencies had like to have happen'd, but 'twas not my Fault. ' The fine Gentleman of the Plav, (Jrinkin* his Mif-trefs's Health in Nant: Brandy, from fix in the Morning to the time he wadled on upon the Stage in the Eveftin" had toafted himfelf up to fuel, a pitch of Vigour "l confefs I once gave Amanda for gone, and am fince (with all due refpect to Mrs. Rogers) very forry fire tap t; lor I am confident a certain Lady (let no one take it to her felf that's handfome) who highly blames tne Play, for the Barrennefs of the Conclufion, would then have allow'd it a very natural Clofe. B } Firft |