RAL DIALOGUES
_in Five Parts_

Depicting the evil effects of jealousy and other bad passions and
Proving that happiness can only spring from the pursuit of Virtue.

_Mr Douglass_--Will represent a noble and magnanimous Moor called
Othello, who loves a young lady named Desdemona, and after he
marries her, harbours (as in too many cases) the dreadful passion
of jealousy.

_Of jealousy, our beings bane,
Mark the small cause, and the most dreadful pain._

_Mr Allyn_--Will depict the character of a specious villain, in the
regiment of Othello, who is so base as to hate his commander on
mere suspicion, and to impose on his best friend. Of such
characters, it is to be feared, there are thousands in the world,
and the one in question may present to us a salutary warning.

_The man that wrongs his master and his friend,
What can he come to but a shameful end?_

_Mr Hallam_--Will delineate a young and thoughtless officer who is
traduced by Mr. Allyn, and, getting drunk, loses his situation and
his generals esteem. All young men whatsoever, take example from
Cassio.

_The ill effects of drinking would you see
Be warned and fly from evil company._

_Mr Morris_--Will represent an old gentleman, the father of
Desdemona, who is not cruel or covetous, but is foolish enough to
dislike the noble Moor, his son-in-law, because his face is not
white, forgetting that we all spring from one root. Such prejudices
are very numerous and very wrong.

_Fathers, beware what sense and love ye lack,
'Tis crime, not colour, makes the being black._

_Mr Quelch_--Will depict a fool who wishes to become a knave, and
trusting to one, gets killed by one. Such is the friendship of
rogues. Take heed!

_Where fools would knaves become, how often you'll
Perceive the knave not wiser than the fool._

_Mrs Morris_--Will represent a young and virtuous wife, who, being
wrongfully suspected, gets smothered (in an Adjoining room) by her
husband.

_Reader, attend, and ere thou goest hence,
Let fall a tear to hapless innocence._

_Mrs Douglass_--Will be her faithful attendant, who will hold out a
good example to all servants, male and female, and to all pe