Famous Plays With a Discourse By Way of Prologue On the Playhouses of the Restor
Famous Plays With a Discourse By Way of Prologue On the Playhouses of the Restor
J Fitzgerald Joseph Fitzgerald Molloy
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For scenes let tatter'd blankets fly, The prologue Kelly write, Then swear again the piece must die Before the author's night. Should these tricks fail the lucky elf To bring to lasting shame, E'en write the best you can yourself, And print it in his name. N 2 i68 A SPITEFUL EPISTLE. wish the forgiving playwright, who had taken no part in the assaults, was quite willing to com- ply. "The undertaking of a comedy not merely sentimental, was very dangerous, " he said to his friends, " and Mr. Colm...an, who saw this piece in its various stages, always thought it so. However, I ventured to trust it to the public; and though it was necessarily delayed until late in the season, I have every reason to be grateful. " Goldsmith's triumph was, however, attended by envy ; his joy was mixed with pain, the chief cause being a gross attack made upon him in the London Packet. To accurately judge of its scurrility and offensiveness it must be read verbatim : " Sir, " it began, " the happy knack which you have learnt of puffing your own com- positions provokes me to come forth.
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