LOVE FOR LOVE. WITH this excellent Play the new Theatre and Company opened at Lincolns-Inn-Fields. Its success was so great that Betterton and his brother Managers, it is recorded, offered the Author in consequence, a whole share in their profits upon the sole condition of furnishing them annually with a new Play. Of this piece it may be remarked, that it has stronger diversities of character than any other written by CONG KEVE, and those characters have a closer approximation to life-That the manners are well opposed and their effect irresistible.-FORESIGHT who refers "Man's goatish disposition to the charge of a star,” then could not excite the laughter he does now, as a great majority of his hearers, it may be presumed, relied upon the same influence and confided in similar predictions. The FORESIGHT of our inimitable PARSONS may be recorded as perfection. THEY who are conversant with Nautical language, find the conversation of BEN either illsuited or obsolete, yet he excites much laughter and keeps it; but the common impression now generally received of the generosity of a BRITISH TAR contributes, from its force in extenuating foible, to the disgust enter. tained at a being in whose composition nothing like this quality seems to enter. THE Characters however they may be discriminated by sentiment and action, are certainly nothing discriminate from language-They are all uniformly wits, and partake equally of the parent. PROLOGUE. THE husbandman in vain renews his toil, And fondly hopes for rich and generous fruit, One falling Adam, and one tempted Eve. We hope there's something that may please each taste, There's humour, which for cheerful friends we got, As asses thistles, poets mumble wit, And dare not bite, for fear of being bit. |