S TO THE INTRODUCTION

[Footnote 1: The author of this introduction is indebted to the
Henry E. Huntington Library, San Marino, California, both for a
research Fellowship in the summer of 1963 and for permission to
reproduce this Macklin play as well as two others by the same
author, A WILL AND NO WILL, OR A BONE FOR THE LAWYERS (Larpent 58)
and THE NEW PLAY CRITICIS'D, OR THE PLAGUE OF ENVY (Larpent 64).]

[Footnote 2: George W. Stone, _The London Stage_, Part 4, I,
cxlv.]

[Footnote 3: Dougald MacMillan, "Censorship in the Case of
Macklin's _The Man of the World_," _Huntington Library Quarterly_,
No. 10 (1936), pp. 79-101.]

[Footnote 4: W. Matthews, "The Piracies of Macklin's _Love-a-la
Mode_," _Review of English Studies_, X (1934), 311-18.]

[Footnote 5: James T. Kirkman, _Memoirs of the Life of Charles
Macklin, Esq._ (1799), II, 33. Kirkman quotes Macklin's letters
both to his solicitor and to James Whitley of Leicester to stop
all such pirated performances (II, 37-41).]

[Footnote 6: John Rich's application to the Licenser indicates
that "Mr. Macklin designs to have [the play] performed at his
Benefit Night...."]

1752

Covent Garden Theatre.

or

Pasquin turn'd Drawcansir

A

Dramatic Satyr.

Sr.

This peice ent'd Covt. Garden Theatre
or Pasquin turn'd Drawcansir Mr.
Macklin designs to have perform'd on his
Benefit Night wth the permission of his Grace
the Duke of Grafton.

To William Chetwyne Esq.

I am
Sr. yr humble Srvt
Jno Rich

Dramatis Personae

Men.

Pasquin.
Marforio.
Sir Eternal Grinn.
Sir Conjecture Possitive.
Sir Roger Ringwood.
Bob: Smart.
Solomon Common Sense
Count Hunt bubble.
Sr. Iohn Ketch.
Hic & haec Scriblerus.
Hydra.

Women.

Lady Lucy Lovit
Miss Diana Singlelife
Miss Brilliant.
Miss Giggle.
Miss Bashful.

Scene. Covent Garden Theatre.

Time an hour.

Covent Garden Theatre
Or
Pasquin turn'd Drawcansir.

Scene. The Stage, with a Rostrum on it.

Enter Pasquin. Goes in the Rostrum.

Pas:
Nobles,-- Commons-- Beaux, Bells-- Wits, Critics,-- Bards & Bardlins,--
and ye my very good Friends of Common Sense,-- tho' last, not least in
Merit,-- Greeting, and Patience to you all. I Seignior Pasquin, of the
Quorum of Parnassus. Drawcansir and Censor of Great Britain, by my Bills
an