ion and giving an account of the handling
of the fund by the trustees, and a dedication to Lord Camden, dated 10
December 1792, and signed by Macklin, though one rather suspects that
Arthur Murphy had a hand in its composition. These pieces of front matter
have been omitted from the present reproduction as containing nothing
material to the reading or interpretation of the play. The _Dramatis
Personae_ follow, and the text begins with signature B page 1, and runs to
signature K2^{V}. _Love a la Mode_, not reprinted here, then follows,
with separate title-page and pagination.

Dougald MacMillan

The University of North Carolina

Notes to the Introduction

[Footnote 1: See _Catalogue of the Larpent Plays in the Huntington
Library_ (1939), Nos. 55, 58, 64, 96, 184, 274, 311, 500, 558.]

[Footnote 2: _Biographia Dramatica_ (1812), III, 15.]

[Footnote 3: Quoted by Edward Abbot Parry, _Charles Macklin_ (1891), p.
179.]

[Footnote 4: See _The Huntington Library Bulletin_, No. 10 (October,
1936), pp. 79-101.]

THE MAN OF THE WORLD.

A COMEDY.

BY

MR. CHARLES MACKLIN.

AS PERFORMED AT THE

_THEATRES-ROYAL, DRURY-LANE AND COVENT-GARDEN_.

_LONDON_:

PRINTED BY J. BELL, BOOKSELLER TO HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS
THE PRINCE OF WALES,
AT THE BRITISH LIBRARY, STRAND.

MDCCXCIII.

[Illustration: CHARLES MACKLIN (COMEDIAN) _in his 93d. Year_.

Printed for the Author by John Bell British Library London July 1792]

_Dramatis Personae_.

COVENT-GARDEN.

Men.

_SIR PERTINAX MACSYCOPHANT_, MR. WILSON.
_EGERTON_, MR. LEWIS.
_LORD LUMBERCOURT_ MR. THOMPSON.
_SIDNEY_, MR. AICKIN.
_MELVILLE_, MR. HULL.
_COUNSELLOR PLAUSIBLE_ MR. CUBITT.
_SERJEANT EITHERSIDE_, MR. MACREADY.
_SAM_, MR. LEDGER.
_JOHN_, MR. ROCK
_TOMLINS_, MR. EVATT.

Women

_LADY MACSYCOPHANT_ MISS. PLATT.
_LADY RODOLPHA LUMBERCOURT_, MRS. POPE.
_CONSTANTIA_, MRS. MOUNTAIN.
_BETTY HINT_, MRS. ROCK.
_NANNY_, MRS. DEVERETT.

THE MAN OF THE WORLD.

_ACT I. SCENE I_.

_A Library_. _Enter_ BETTY _and_ SAM.

_Betty_. The Postman is at the gate, Sam; pray step and take in the
letters.

_Sam_. John the gardener is gone for them, Mrs. Betty.

_Bet_. Bid John brin