Excerpt from Bell's British Theatre, Consisting of the Most Esteemed English Plays, Vol. 8: Volume the Eighth, Being the Fourth Volume of Comedies; Containing, the Funeral, by Richard Steele; Lover for Love, by William Congereve, Esq.; The Careless Husband, by Colley Cibber, Esq. But the dead man is not to pals off fo eafily, for his lafi thoughts are aifo to fuffer drifedion, and it feerns there is no art to be learned to (peak our own fenfe in Other men's words, and a man in a gown, that never faw his face, {hall tell you immediately the defign of the de ceafed, better than all his old acquaintance which is fo perfect an Hocus Pocus, that without you can repeat fuch and (nth words, you cannot convey what is in your hands into another's; but far be it from any man's thought to fay there are nor men of liriet integrity of the long robe. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.