Excerpt from Hear Both Sides; A Comedy in Five Acts: As It Is Performed at the Theatre Royal, Drury-Lane Disrespect, playing the contempt in truth. Were not such attempts too reprehen sible to be jocular, there is an answer that would make them very pleasant: it is the bursts of laughter, at the comic parts; and the deep attention and unceasing applause With which the serious scenes of this Comedy, are nightly received. The gentlemen, Who write such paragraphs, ought not to address them to me; but to each successive Audience: it is the fault of the Spectators, if they Will laugh at my Sermons, and if they are pleased that morals themselves may derive benefit from the Stage. At' the tribunal of those, who pro nounce judgment against me, to stand con victed of morality is an unpardonable ofience. This preface is perhaps one of the mistakes committed in the present publication; fori well know its mistakes are many: I ought. 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.