PROLOGUE.

teize you,

SINCE plays are but a kind of public feasts,
Where tickets only make the welcome guests;
Methinks, instead of grace, we should prepare,
Your tastes in prologues, with your bill of fare.
When you foreknow each course, tho' this may
'Tis five to one, but each o'th' five may please you,
First, for your critics, we've your darling cheer,
Faults without number, more than sense can bear;
You're certain to be pleas'd where errors are.
From your displeasure I dare vouch we're safe;
You never frown, but where your neighbours laugh.
Now you that never know what spleen or hate is,
Who, for an act or two, are welcome, gratis,
That tip the wink, and so sneak out with nunquam
For your smart tastes, we've toss'd you up a fop,
We hope the newest that's of late come up ;
The fool, beau, wit, and rake, so mix'd he carries,
He seems a ragout, piping hot from Paris.
But for the softer sex, whom most we'd move,
We've what the fair and chaste were form'd for, love:
An artless passion, fraught with hopes and fears,
And nearest happy, when it most despairs.

satis ;

For marks we've scandal; and for beaus, French airs.

To please all tastes, we'll do the best we can ;
For the galleries, we've *Dicky, and Will Penkethman.
Now sirs, you're welcome, and you know your fare;
But pray, in charity, the founder spare,

Lest you destroy, at once, the poet and the player.

Two comic actors, who lived at the time this Play was written.

V

ANTONIO,
CHARINO,

DON LEWIS, uncle and near friend to Carlos
CARLOS, a student, son to Antonio
CLODIO, a pert coxcomb, bis brother
SANCHO, servant to Carlos

Men.

Mr. Baddeley,
Mr. Waldron.

Mr. Parsonss
Mr. Kemble.
Mr. Dodd.

MONSIEUR, valet to Clodio

Governor of Lisbon

DON DUART, his nephew

DON MANUEL, a sea officer in love with
Louisa

ANGELINA, daughter to Charino
LOUISA, a lady of quality and pleasure
ELVIRA, sister to Don Duart

HONORIA, Cousin to Louisa

ANTONIO,
CHARINO,

Mr. Suett,

COVENT GARDEN.

} old gentlemen

DON LEWIS, uncle, and near friend to Carlos
CARLOS, a student, son to Antonio
CLODIO, a pert coxcomb, his brother
SANCHO, servant to Carlos

Mr. Powell.

Mr. Quick.
Mr. Holman.

Mr. Lewis.

Mr. Blanchard.

Mr. C. Powell.

Mr. Davies.

DON DUART, bis nephew

DON MANUEL, a sea officer in love with
Louisa

ANGELINA, daughter to Charino
LOUISA, a lady of quality and pleasure,
ELVIRA, sister to Don Duart
HONORIA, Cousin to Louisa

Priest, Officers, and Servants.

LOVE MAKES A MAN.

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ACT 1. SCENE 1.

A Hall. Enter ANTONIO and CHARINO.

Antonio.

ITHOUT Compliment, my old friend, I shall think myself much honoured in your alliance; our families are both ancient, our children young, and able to support them; and, I think, the sooner we set them to work, the better.

Cha. Sir, you offer fair and nobly, and shall find I dare meet you in the same line of honour: and, I hope, since I have but one girl in the world, you won't think me a troublesome old fool, if I endeavour to bestow her to her worth; therefore, if you please, before we shake hands, a word or two by the bye; for I have some considerable questions to ask you. Ant. Ask 'em.

Cha. Well, in the first place, you say you have two

sons?

Ant. Exactly.

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Cha. And you are willing that one of 'em shall

marry my daughter?

Ant. Willing.

Cha. My daughter Angelina?

Ant. Angelina.

Cha. And you are likewise content that the said Angelina shall survey 'em both, and (with my allowance) take to her lawful husband which of 'em she pleases? Ant. Content.

Cha. And you farther promise, that the person by her (and me) so chosen (be it elder or younger) shall be your sole heir: that is to say, shall be in a conditional possession of at least three parts of your estate. You know the conditions, and this you positively promise?

Ant. To perform.

Cha. Why then, as the last token of my full consent and approbation, I give you my hand.

Ant. There's mine.

Cha. Is't a match?

Ant. A match.

Cha. Done.

Ant. Done.

Cha. And done that's enough-Carlos, the elder, you say, is a great scholar, spends his whole life in the university, and loves his study.

Ant. Nothing more, sir.

Cha. But Clodio, the younger, has seen the world, and is very well known in the court of France; a sprightly fellow, ha ?