DRAMATIS PERSONAE.

MEN.

SIR CHARLES MARLOW           Mr. Gardner.
YOUNG MARLOW (His Son)       Mr. Lee Lewes.
HARDCASTLE                   Mr. Shuter.
HASTINGS                     Mr. Dubellamy.
TONY LUMPKIN                 Mr. Quick.
DIGGORY                      Mr. Saunders.

WOMEN.

MRS. HARDCASTLE              Mrs. Green.
MISS HARDCASTLE              Mrs. Bulkley.
MISS NEVILLE                 Mrs. Kniveton.
MAID                         Miss Williams.

LANDLORD, SERVANTS, Etc. Etc.

To SAMUEL JOHNSON, LL.D.

Dear Sir,--By inscribing this slight performance to you, I do not mean so much to compliment you as myself. It may do me some honour to inform the public, that I have lived many years in intimacy with you. It may serve the interests of mankind also to inform them, that the greatest wit may be found in a character, without impairing the most unaffected piety.

I have, particularly, reason to thank you for your partiality to this performance. The undertaking a comedy not merely sentimental was very dangerous; and Mr. Colman, 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 till late in the season, I have every reason to be grateful.

I am, dear Sir, your most sincere friend and admirer,

OLIVER GOLDSMITH.

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