quirpo, like a cafed rabbet, without his holy furr upon his back, that the world may once behold the infide of a fryar. Dom. Farewel, kind gentlemen: I give you all my bleffing before I go. May your fifters, wives and daughters, be fo naturally lewd, that they may have no occafion for a devil to tempt, or a fryar to pimp for ' them.' [Exit, with a rabble pushing him. Enter Torrifmond, Leonora, Bertran, Raymond, Terefa, &c. Tor. He lives! he lives! my royal father lives! Oh, Bertran, Oh, no more my foe, but brother: Bert. Bad men, when 'tis their interest, may do good: Ray. Heaven guided all to fave the innocent. Bert. I plead no merit, but a bare forgiveness: Tor. Not only that, but favour: Sancho's life, Whether by virtue or defign preferv'd, Claims all within my power. Qu. My prayers are heard; And I have nothing farther to defire, But Sancho's leave to authorize our marriage. Tor. Oh, fear not him! pity and he are one; So merciful a king did never live; Loth to revenge, and easy to forgive: But let the bold confpirator beware, For Heaven makes princes its peculiar care. [Exeunt, END of the FIFTH ACT. EPILOGUE. By a Friend of the AUTHOR. THERE's none, I'm fure, who is a friend to love, But will our fryar's character approve: The ableft fpark among you fometimes needs be Our church, alas! (as Rome objects) does want be Still Still to the fick and dead their claims they lay; He'll work no honey when his fting is gone. Your wives and daughters foon will leave the cells, 1 } On Saturday the 26th of April was published, The POETS of GREAT BRITAIN, COMPLETE, FROM CHAUCER to CHURCHILL, Beginning with MILTON's PARADISE LOST. To be continued in weekly beautiful volumes till the whole are completed. Price only 1s. 6d. per volume, to be paid for as they are published. HE PLAN of this undertaking is to furnish the THE public with the most beautiful, the corre teft, the cheapest, and the only complete uniform edition of the BRITISH POETS. The WORK will confift of one hundred volumes; it is now very far advanced, and will be published without interruption in weekly volumes, comprifing all the BRITISH POETS from the time of CHAUCER to CHURCHILL. The WORK will be fold for one fourth of the price, even of the meaneft of other editions: it is printed in a moft delicate fize, resembling the Elzevir editions of the Latin claffics; on types of a new invention, with preffes of a fingular conftruction, on thin poft writing paper of beautiful appearance, by artists of ingenious abilities, and embellished with engravings of mafteily execution. Any particular Author may be selected without being obliged to take the fet complete.. While the Greek and Roman claffics were the only authors ftudied or generally known, the polished nations of Europe vied with each other in embellishing these inestimable models of antiquity with every ornament. For LIBRARIES, fize and magnificence were attended to; and for general ufe, elegance and neatnefs. Hence thefe numerous fets of the claffics, which do fo much honour honour to modern ingenuity. The Italians foon rewarded the memories of their illuftrious countrymen with the like honour, and France speedily followed an example fo worthy of imitation. It now appears high time that Great Britain fhould affume the confequence due to her merit, and pay her worthies that tribute to which their diftinguished genius hath fo juftly entitled them. Upon fuch ideas, the prefent undertaking has been conceived; and if the approbation of the public, feconds the endeavours of the editors, the English claffics will give place to none, in purity, quality of materials, or execution. To collect genuine editions of our poets is a business of time, difficulty, and vaft expence, even to the inhabitants of the capital; but to collect them uniformly printed, fo as to appear in a library as one and the fame book, has hitherto been found an impoffibility, no attempt towards a general and uniform publication of these diftinguished characters having formerly been made. With partial, fubaltern editions, the prefs has frequently been in labour; but thefe, having no great or general object in view, are confequently imperfect, and loofely copied from one another, with multiplication of errors. Against all this fufficient precautions have been taken, by a collection of the original and authorised editions; fo that the prefent work will not be found more uniform in its manner, than chaste in its execution. We naturally wish to know fomething of the man who entertains and edifies us; yet it deferves remark, that this curiofity has been but very partially gratified, the lives of but few of our poets being tranfmitted to the public along with their writings. This defect, equally inexcufable as difficult to be accounted for, will be fupplied in the prefent publication, which will convey to pofterity the most authentic anecdotes relative to those eminent men, whofe writings are the object of the prefent undertaking; and by thus forming a connected fyftem of biography, fo far as relates to this particular clafs of writers, bring the reader acquainted at once with the poet and the man. On |