your SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER. Mar Madam every moment that shea's me meril, only serves to encrease my diffidence. Scene # 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, "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. M DCC XCI. ΤΟ SAMUEL JOHNSON, LL. D. BY inscribing this slight performance to you, I do not mean so much to compliment you as myself. It may 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 various stages, always thought it so. However I ventur 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. Your most sincere friend OLIVER GOLDSMITH. |