Excerpt from The School for Lovers, a Comedy: As It Is Acted at the Theatre Royal in Drury-Lane

The following Comedy is formed on a plan of Monsieur de Fontenelle's, never intended for the stage, and printed in the eighth volume of his works, under the title of Le Testament.

The scene of that piece is laid in Greece, and the embarrassing circumstances depend on some peculiarities in the customs of that country. Slaves likewise, as is usual in the Grecian Comedy, act as confidantes to the principal personages. The Author, therefore, hopes he may be excused for having made the story English, and his own, for having introduced a new character, and endeavoured to heighten those he found already sketched out. The delicacy of the sentiments in Philonoe and Eudamidas, he has inviolably adhered to, wherever he could insert them properly, in his Cælia and Sir John Dorilant, and would willingly flatter himself, that he has made great and not contemptible additions to their characters, as well as to the others.

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