FOUNDED ON

THE TRAGEDIES

OF

SHAKSPEARE, MASSINGER, SHIRLEY, ROWE, MURPHY,

LILLO, AND MOORE,

AND ON

THE COMEDIES

OF

STEELE, FARQUHAR, CUMBERLAND, BICKERSTAFF,

GOLDSMITH, AND MRS. COWLEY.

BY MISS MACAULEY.

Good unexpected-evil unforeseen
Appear by turns, as Fortune shifts the scene.
Some, raised aloft, come tuinbling down amain :
Some fall so hard-they bound and rise again.

Lansdown.

HARTFORD:

S. ANDRUS AND SON.