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<A QFIELDING> <T NOBLE LORD> <E 1742> ((A LETTER TO A NOBLE LORD, TO WHOM ALONE IT BELONGS. OCCASIONED BY A REPRESENTATION AT THE THEATRE ROYAL IN DRURY-LANE, OF A FARCE, CALLED MISS LUCY IN TOWN. SUCCESSIT VETUS HIS COMAEDIA, NON SINE MULTA LAUDE, SED IN VITIUM LIBERTAS EXCIDIT, ET VIRA DIGNAM LEGE REGI. HOR. DE ARTE POET. LONDON: PRINTED FOR T. COOPER, AT THE GLOBE IN PATER-NOSTER-ROW. MDCCXLII.)) <P 1> ((A LETTER TO A NOBLE LORD, ETC. MY LORD,)) <L 6> I AM INDUCED TO THE LIBERTY OF THIS ADDRESS, ON HAVING LATELY BEEN AT THE REPRESENTATION OF A FARCE, CALLED MISS LUCY IN TOWN, SUPPOSED TO BE WROTE BY MR((.)) FIELDING. AS TO THE WIT OR HUMOUR OF THE PIECE, I AM ENTIRELY SILENT, BUT CON-+ GRATULATE / THE POET ON HIS HAPPY GENIUS; WHICH THO' THE LEGISLATURE SEVERELY CHECK'D ON ITS DARING TO SUCCEED IN A REPRESENTA-+ TION / ON THE PRINCIPLE OF LIBERTY, PASQUIN; <P 2> YET IT NOW, LIKE A PHOENIX, RISES OUT OF ITS OWN ASHES, AND CONVINCES THE WORLD, THAT IT IS NOT CONFINED TO THE LEWDNESS O . . .
