EPILOGUE. WRITTEN BY R. B. SHERIDAN, ESQ. SPOKEN BY MR. LEE LEWIS. UNHAND me, gentlemen, by Heaven, I say, I'll make a ghost of him who bars my way. In Tragic-Comic-Pastoral-they dare to please. Which feeds their follies with such full applause. Bills, books, caps, couplets, combs, a vary'd mass, And there, a mantua-maker's bill unpaid; Here new-born plays foretaste the town's applause, A satire next, and then a bill of fare : A scene she now projects, and now a dish, Here's act the first-and here-remove with fish. Black pins and daggers in one leaf she sticks, And gave the greenest laurel that is worshipp'd there. } THE INFLEXIBLE CAPTIVE: A TRAGEDY. IN FIVE ACTS. AS IT WAS ACTED AT THE THEATRE-ROYAL AT BATH. The man resolv'd, and steady to his trust, persons of great merit and delicacy, no virtue stands in higher estimation than truth; yet in such an address as the present, there would be some danger of offending them by a strict adherence to it: I mean by uttering truths so generally acknowledged, that every one except the person addressed would acquit the writer of flattery. And it will be a singular circumstance to see a Dedication without praise, to a lady possessed of every quality and accomplishment which can justly entitle her to it. I am, DEAR MADAM, your most obedient, and very obliged humble servant, THE AUTHOR. |