THE GREATER PART OF WHICH HAS NEVER BEFORE BEEN PUBLISHED.

BY EDMOND MALONE, Esq.

VOLUME THE SECOND.

LONDON:

PRINTED BY H. BALDWIN AND SON, NEW BRIDGE-STREET,

FOR T. CADELL, JUN. AND W. DAVIES, IN THE STRAND.

M.DCCC.

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DEDICATION

OF

ALL FOR LOVE,

OR, THE WORLD WELL LOST.'

TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE

THOMAS, EARL OF DANBY,

VISCOUNT LATIMER, AND BARON OSBORNE OF KIVETON, IN YORKSHIRE;

LORD HIGH TREASURER OF ENGLAND, ONE OF HIS

MAJESTY'S MOST HONOURABLE PRIVY COUNCIL,

AND KNIGHT OF THE MOST NOBLE ORDER OF THE GARTER, &c. *

MY LORD,

THE gratitude of

He gratitude of poets is so troublesome a virtue to great men, that you are often in danger of your own benefits; for you are threatened with some Epistle, and not suffered to do good in quiet, or to compound for their silence whom you have

I ALL FOR LOVE was represented at the Theatre Royal, and first printed in 1678. Our author has told us, that it is the only play he wrote for himself: the rest were given to the people." It is (says Dr. Johnson) by universal consent accounted the work in which he has admitted the fewest improprieties of style or character."

2 Of the rise and character of this nobleman, who was born in 1631, and died in his 81st year in 1712, Burnet