money, we citizens indeed are odd kind of folks, and' always expect good security for what we ad

vance.

L. Old. Sir John's perfon, his fortune, everyThomas. Nay, nay, nay, upon this occafion we will not be troubled with land: If you, fifter, will place as a pledge my fair coufin in the hands of my fon

L. Old. I freely refign her difpofal to you.
Sir John. And I.

Thomas. Then be happy, my children! And as to my young coufins within, I hope we shall be able to settle them without Sir Matthew's affiftance: For, however praiseworthy the spirit of adventure may be, whoever keeps his poft, and does his duty at home, will be found to render his country best service at laft!

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ADVERTISEMENT.

SOME copies of fpurious impreffions of the Cozeners and the Maid of Bath, having been printed and circulated before the application to the Court of Chancery for an injunction, it has been thought advisable, in vindication of the property of the Editor, as well as in juftice to the deceased Author, immediately to commit to the prefs genuine editions of the two dramatic pieces above-mentioned, together with this Comedy, which had been also without authority advertised for publication.

On infpection of the fpurious impreffions, it appears, that all the errors of carelefs and ignorant tranfcribers are there religiously preferved; and all the additions and improvements, made by the facetious Writer, are omitted. Many inftances of this will occur on perufal of those Comedies, and particularly the Cozeners; in which, befides the restoration of feveral paffages always fpoken on the stage, the Reader will find a whole scene, at the end of the First Act, and another, ftill more entertaining and popular, at the beginning of the Third; both which were wholly wanting in the fpurious impreffions.

Unauthorized publications are not only always detrimental to private property, but commonly prove injurious to the publick: for the copies, being obtained by clandeftine and indirect means, are, for the most part, as has happened in the prefent inftance, incorrect and imperfect.