Excerpt from The Author's Farce: With a Puppet-Show, Call'd the Pleasures of the Town; As Acted at the Theatre Royal in Drury-Lane Bred in Democritus his laughing Schools, Ou'r Author flies jad Heraclitus' Rules No T ears, no Terror plead in his Behah The aim of Farce is hut to malee you laugh. Beneath the Tragich or the Comich Name, Farces and Puppet {hows ne'er mifs of Fame. Since then, in horrow'd Dry}, they' foe plea/2d the Condemn them not, appearing in their own. 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.