COMEDY. As it was acted at the NEW-THEATRE IN LINCOLN'S-INN-FIELDS. By Mrs. MARY DAVYS. LONDON: Printed by H. MEERE, Bar 1716. (Price To Her Royal Highness the Young Princess ANNE, MADAM, A S Nature and Fortune have fet you above Flattery, my greatest Concern is, that I muft fhew my Want of Power in doing your Highnefs cominon Juftice, because it requires the finest Pen to draw fuch nice Strokes as can any Way come up to the curious Original. To fpeak of your budding. Beauty, your promifing fprightly Wit, your affable fweet Temper, and thofe many Virtues you are fo early initiated into, comes ftill fo fhort of your intrinfick. Value, that I only lay my felf open to the Cenfure of the World, for aiming at a Work I have not Skill to finish. But, MADAM, what I want in Judgment, to draw fo fine a Pitture, I make up in a moft fubmiffive Obedience to your illuftrious Family; and do here affure your Highness, the Royal King GEORGE has not a Subject within his three Kingdoms, that would do more to fhew his Zeal for him, than I would. A 2 |