PRINTED FOR F. AND C. RIVINGTON; OTRIDGE AND SON; J. NICHOLS; G. AND J. ROBINSON; VERNOR AND HOOD; J. WALKER ; J SCATCHERD; OGILVY AND SON; T. HURST; J. MAWMAN; J. NUNN; J. CUTHELL; W. J. AND J. RICHARDSON; AND J. HOOKHAM. J. Cundee, Printer, Ivy-Lane, Paternoster-Row. PROLOGUE. BY A FRIEND. OFT has the buskin'd Muse, with action mean, While puny villains, dress'd in purple pride, With soft deceit amuse the doubtful eye, Pleas'd with the conflict of the various dye. Thus, thro' the following scenes, with sweet surprize, Virtue and guilt in dread confusion rise; And Love and Hate, at once, and Grief and Joy, Pity and Rage, their mingled force employ. Here the soft Virgin sees, with secret shame, We dread a while, lest beauty should succeed, Mark well the black Revenge, the cruel Guile, Yet may his mighty wrongs, his just disdain, |