with a
Familiar Preface
upon
_A Late Reformer of the STAGE._

Ending with a Satyrical Fable
of
the DOG and the OTTOR.


Written by Mr. _D'urfey_.

LONDON,


Printed for _A. Baldwin_, near the _Oxford Arms_ Inn
in _Warwick lane_. MDCXCVIII.




PREFACE.


I Must necessarily inform the Partial, as well as Impartial Reader,
that I had once design'd another kind of Preface to my Comedy than what
will appear in the following sheets; but having in the interim been
entertain'd with a Book lately Printed, full of Abuses on all our
Antient as well as Modern Poets, call'd _A view of the Immorality and