Then Ladies' cloaks !-so ruddy, warm, and loose!
They're copied from the tales of Mother Goose.
And modern wolves!-take care they prowl in crowds,
For little-and for large, Red Riding-Hoods.

All, all is borrow'd-and it makes such pother!
For e'en our saints so copy one another!

That 'twixt these four-no more for difference look-
St. James!-St. Giles!--St. Stephen!--and St. Luke!
Bards too!-like tars, their hostile fire can't quench-
For plays, like ships,-are taken from the French!

One word then to ye all, before I go-
Since ours is "English Sirs!-from top to toe
Support your countryman-befriend his cause-
Who now-like me--would borrow your applause.

€, Stower, Printer, Paternoster Bow.

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BY LONGMAN, HURST, REES, AND ORME,

PATERNOSTER-ROW,

NUMBERS 1 to 107 (to be continued WEEKLY)

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THE BRITISH THEATRE;

OR, A COLLECTION OF PLAYS,

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It is intended to comprise the Work in Twenty-five Volumes, each containing Five Plays. In the course of publication, as Frontispieces to the Volumes of the Fine Edition, will be given PORTRAITS of AUTHORS, generally with the first of their Plays that is brought forward; and, at the conclusion, general title-pages, with directions for arranging the Plays. The Embellishments will be executed in the very best manner, by the first Artists.

THE PLAYS ALREADY PUBLISHED ARE,

Mountaineers. Speed the Plough. Wheel of Fortune. Lovers' Vows. Inkle and Yarico. Isabella. Wild Oats. Douglas. The Stranger. Country Girl. Dramatist. Hamlet. Grecian Daughter. Busy Body. John Bull. Tancred and Sigismunda. All in the Wrong. Macbeth, A bold Stroke for a Wife. The Poor Gentleman. Such Things are. Oroonoko. Love in a Village. Road to Ruin. Jane Shore. Clandestine Marriage. Edward the Black Prince. Merry Wives of Windsor. Rule a Wife and have a Wife. Mourning Bride. Cure for the Heart Ache. All for Love. The Way to keep Him. King John. She Stoops to Conquer. The Conscious Lovers. The Revenge. Love for Love. Every Man in his Humour. Coriolanus. The Jew. Romeo and Juliet. The Careless Husband. George Barnwell. The Beaux' Stratagem. Gustavus Vasa. The West Indian. Julius Cæsar. Every One has his Fault. The Jealous Wife. The Tempest. The Orphan. Cato. The Belle's Stratagem. Zara. The Fair Penitent. The Deserted Daughter. First Love. The Siege of Damascus. The Provoked Wife. The Rival Queens. Lady Jane Grey. Love makes a Man. The Roman Father. The Point of Honour. Barbarossa. The Merchant of Venice. Wives as they were. King Lear. The Constant Couple. The School of Reform. To Marry, or Not to Marry. King Henry VIII. King Henry V. The Good-natured Man. Antony and Cleopatra. The Recruiting Officer. The Countess of Salisbury. The Winter's Tale. De Montfort. The Count of Narbonne. The Castle of Andalusia. The Suspicious Husband. A bold Stroke for a Husband. A New Way to pay Old Debts. The Way to get Married. Fatal Curiosity. The Earl of Warwick. Fontainbleau. The Honey Moon. The Wonder. Lionel and Clarissa. Earl of Essex. King Henry IV. Part I. The Brothers, a Comedy. She would and she would not. The Inconstant. The Rivals. Measure for Measure. Know your own Mind. King Richard III. King Henry IV. Part II. The Gamester. The Man of the World. The Maid of the Mill. The Duenna. The Provoked Husband.

THE DRAMATIST-NOTORIETY-SPECULATION-RAGE-HOW TV
GROW RICH-WILL-LAUGH WHEN YOU CAN-FOLLY AS

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THIRD EDITION.

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