A COMEDY,

ALTERED FROM SHAKSPere,

BY DAVID GARRICK, Esq.

ADAPTED FOR

Theatrical Representation.

AS PERFORMED AT THE

THEATRES ROYAL, DRURY LANE,

AND

COVENT GARDEN.

REGULATED FROM THE PROMPT-BOOK,
By Permission of the Managers.

The ines distinguished by inverted Commas, are omitted in the Represe tation

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR

JOHN CAWTHORN, 5, CATHERINE STREET, STRAND Bookseller to Her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales.

TENOX LIBRARY

NEW YORK

Printed by M. Burton, Fetter Lane.

CATHERINE AND PETRUCHIO.

Whatever moral may be attached to this piece, it is certainly replete with humour and interest; and the whole farce is very popular and 'iverting. It is an alteration, by Garrick, from Shakspe Taming the Shrew, and is reckoned the most regular and perfect drama that has ever been formed from that origin by inverting and transposing its different parts, and reduci. he whole into a regular piece. The judgment wherewith thi..3 executed, and the valuable use Mr. Garrick made of Shakespere, from whom he neither deviated, and to whom he made no addition, did great honour to his understanding and knowledge of theatrical conduct; and has rendered a comedy, which, from the many absurdities mingled with its numerous beauties, had long been thrown aside, one of themost entertaining dramas of the present day.

WRITTEN AND SPOKEN BY

Mr. GARRICK.

To various things the stage has been compar'd,
As apt ideas strike each humourous bard:
This night, for want of better simile,
Let this our theatre a tavern be:

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The poets vintners, and the waiters we.
So as the cant and custom of the trade is,
You're welcome, gem'men-kindly welcome, la-
dies.

To draw in customers our bills are spread,
You cannot miss the sign-'tis Shakspear's Head.
From this same head, this fountain-ead divine,
For different palates springs a different wine!
In which no tricks, to strengthen, or to thin'em-
Neat as imported-no French brandy in 'em---
Hence for the choicest spirits flow champaign;
Whose sparkling atoms shoot thro' every vein,
Then mount in magic vapours to th' enraptur'd
brain!

Hence flow for martial minds potations strong;
And sweet love potions for the fair and young.
For you, my Hearts of Oak, for your regale,
There's good old English stingo, mild and stale.
[To the upper gallery.
For high luxurous souls, with luscious smack,
There's Sir John Falstaff is a butt of sack: