Excerpt from Where to Find a Friend: A Comedy in Five ActsFriends to this ground! To all I now appeal, To British minds, which ever kindly feel. Y our smiles can all our apprehensions end, On this occasion prove the Author's friend Grant him the Olive, if denied the bays, And yield him, pardon, where you cannot praise.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.