Myr. Mop. Laura -no longer shall deny. [Mop. and Lyc. join Lau. and Myr. bands [In two parts.] Myr. Kind and tender, Lau. I furrender. Both. All my joy's in thee alone. Lau. When I deny'd you, Myr. When I forfwore you, I did adore you. Both. Despair and care's for ever flown. [Chorus of voices and dancers. Cho. Now all ye fwains and laffes, &c. END OF MYRTILLO. PHILIP, EARL OF CHESTERFIELD, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, &c. &c. &c. His Majefty's Ambaffador Extraordinary to the States-General, and Knight of the Moft Noble Order of the Garter. My Lord, THIS play, which throws itself at your lord Ship's feet without any previous permission to approach you, begs for no farther protection than your impartial judgment would afford it, tho' the author had not the honour to be known to you. The favourable reception it has met with on the theatre, 'tis true, demands my grateful acknowledgments; but I muft reftrain my vanity from taking any advantage of this fuccefs, till your lordship's farther approbation has pass'd thofe favours into a legal act of grace. All I can fay in excufe of my prefumption is, that, if I could have found a judge more learned in the dramatic laws, your lordship had not been troubled with this appeal; and though I offer it at a time when your attention to caufes of a quite different nature will scarce leave you leifure to look upon more than the title-page; yet am I not fo impatient for fame, as to conclude I can have any right to it, till your lord/hip's opinion has decreed it |