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Excerpt from Begone Dull Care: A Comedy, in Five Acts, as Performed at the Theatre-Royal, Covent-Garden
That a very large majority of critical' writers are always ready to take the good-natured side of the question, and to aid their fellow labzrurer in the bineyard, I have every reason to acknow ledge, and I am happyr;most happy, in this opi portunity of confessing that no author that'eve'r did live, or possibly ever will live, can be under greater obligations to them than Iam mbutsince the few may at last lead and convert the many, -and play-writing is my chief source of income, I trust there is no impropriety in my vindicating my vocation to the utmost of my power I beg it to be understood, that I bear no malice even to those critics who call modern comedy, modem trash; because if the sale of their pub lications depend' on their severity, who knows but they are\writing against their opinions, and meall thetime secretly thinking me a wonderfully fine dzwamalzstfiulo the reviewers I can bear no malice, because when they state that my new co medy is worth nothing, they actually'state the fact-for by'that time I 113316 expended all its prqfits. To the public at large, who havefor more than twenty years bestowed on me such uni form and unccasmg indulgence, What can I say for not bettei meriting that indulgence? Why briefly.
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