DEDICATION.

TO THE REV. GEORGE AUSTEN.

SIR,--I humbly solicit your patronage to the following Comedy, which,
though an unfinished one, is, I flatter myself, as complete a _Mystery_
as any of its kind.

I am, Sir, your most humble Servant,
THE AUTHOR.

THE MYSTERY, A COMEDY.

_DRAMATIS PERSONAE_.

_Men_. _Women_.
Col. ELLIOTT. FANNY ELLIOTT.
OLD HUMBUG. Mrs. HUMBUG
YOUNG HUMBUG. _and_
Sir Edward Spangle Daphne.
and
Corydon.



ACT I.


SCENE I.--_A Garden_.