Late Patentee of the Theatre-Royal. bis OWN TIME. WRITTEN BY HIMSELF. Hoc eft Mart. lib. 2 The THIRD EDITION. To which is now added, ENGLISH STAGE: ALSO, A Dialogue on Old PLAYs, and OLD PLAYERS. LONDON: MDCCL. Τ Ο Α : CERTAIN GENTLEMAN. B S IR, ECAUSE I know it would give you lefs. Con cern, to find your Name in an impertinent Satyr, than before the daintieft Dedication of a modern Author, I conceal it. Let me talk never fo idly to you, this way; you are, at least, under no ils necef A 2 necessity of taking it to yourself: Nor when I boaft of your Favours, need you blush to have bestow'd them. Or I may now give you all the Attributes, that raise a wise, and good-natur'd Man, to Efteem, and Happiness, and not be censured as a Flatterer by my own, or your Enemies. -I place my own first; because'as they are the greater Number, I am afraid of not paying the greater Respect to them. Yours, if such there. are, I imagine are too well-bred to declare themselves : But as there is no Hazard, or visible Terror, in an Attack, upon my defencelefs Station, my Censurers have generally been Perfons of an intrepid Sincerity. Having S there |