Excerpt from The Roman Father, a Tragedy: As It Is Acted at the Theatre Royal in Drury-Lane, by His Majesty's Servants {hould never have thought of writing a Play 011 the following Subject, if I had not firi'c read the inft ly celebratedo Horace of Mr. Cormilla, and admired his Management of fome Parts of the Story. They will' find me tracmg him very clofely (with fome few Alte rations) m the latter End of the Third A61, and in the Beginning of the Fourth. In the other Acts I am hardly confcious to myfelf bf having borrowed even a Thought from him tho' I might have been proud to have tranflated whole Scenes, if my Plan and Cha rafters would have admitted of 1t. 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.