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 I defer all answers to the different criticisms on the Piece to an Essay, which I am about to publish immediately, on Dramatic Poetry, relatively to the present state of the Metropolitan Theatres.

From the necessity of hastening the publication I was obliged to send the manuscript intended for the Stage: which is the sole cause of the number of directions printed in italics.

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