Genuine and Authentic Copy of bis Last Will and Testament.

DEDICATED TO DAVID GARRICK, ESQ.

London:

PRINTED FOR S. BLADON, IN PATERNOSTER ROW

1766.

ΤΟ

DAVID GARRICK, ESQ.

WHOSE patronage, sir, can these sheets more properly claim than yours? The Life of Mr. Quin is so immediately connected with your own, and his pursuits for a long time were so very similar, that no one can form so just an estimate of the man, or judge so well of the merits of the actor, as he who is at once the real representative and the only just commentator of Shakespeare. Permit me therefore, sir, to lay this little work at your feet, which I flatter myself, if not from its intrinsic worth, at least from the subject, you will deign to accept of, and place among those volumes

which illustrate dramatic history. I am, sir,

Amongst many thousands,

Your constant admirer,

And most obedient humble servant,

THE EDITOR.