SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER.
Mar Madam every mement that shows me your
merit, only serves to en 'rease my diffidence.

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Wheatly pinx!

London Printed for J. Bell British Library Strand Dec.121791.

OR,

THE MISTAKES OF A NIGHT.

A

COMEDY,

BY DR. GOLDSMITH.

ADAPTED FOR

THEATRICAL REPRESENTATION,

AS PERFORMED AT THE

THEATRES-ROYAL,

DRURY-LANE AND COVENT-GARDEN.

REGULATED FROM THE PROMPT-BOOKS,
By Permission of the Managers.

The lines distinguished by inverted Commas, are omitted in the Representation."

LONDON:

Printed for the Proprietors, under the Direction of JOHN BELL, British Library, STRAND, Bookseller to His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales.

MDCCXCI.

ΤΟ

SAMUEL JOHNSON, LL. D.

may

BY inscribing this slight performance to you, I do not mean so much to compliment you as myself. It do me some honour to inform the public, that I have lived many years in intimacy with you. It may serve the interests of mankind also to inform them, that the greatest wit may be found in a character, without impairing the most unaffected piety.

I have, particularly, reason to thank you for your partiality to this performance. The undertaking a Comedy, not merely sentimental, was very dangerous; and Mr. Colman, who saw this piece in its vari. However I venturous stages, always thought it so. ed to trust it to the public; and, though it was necessarily delayed till late in the season, I have every reason to be grateful.

I am, dear Sir,

Your most sincere friend
and admirer,

OLIVER GOLDSMITH.