. TO HER ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCESS. MADAM, T HE honour I received from Your ROYAL HIGHNESS, in being permitted to read this play to you before it was acted, made me more happy than any other fuccefs that could have happened to me. If it had the good fortune to gain Your ROYAL HIGHNESS's approbation, I have been often reflecting to what to impute it, and I think, it must have been the Catastrophe of the fable, the rewarding virtue, and the relieving the diftreffed: For that could not fail to give you some pleasure in fiction, which, it is plain, gives you the greatest in reality; or else Your ROYAL HIGHNESS would not (as you always have done) make it your daily practice. |