Excerpt from The School for Wives: A Comedy as It Is Performed at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane It would be ungrateful initihe highefl degree to clofe this preface, without acknowledging the very great obligations which the author has to Mr: Garrick. Every attehtioh, which either as a ma nager, or as a man, he could give to the interell of the following play, he has bellowed w1th the mofl: generous alacrity; b'ut unive'rfally'admired asibe is at prefent, his intrinfic value will not be known, till his lofs 1s deplored, and the public have great reafon to wifh, that this may be a very difiant event in the annals of the theatre. The Epilogue ftifiiciently marks the mafierl y hand from Which it originated; fodoes the comic commencement 'of the Prologue, and the elegant writer of the graver part, is a cha'rafler' of difiinguifhed eminence'iit the literary republ1c. 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.