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Excerpt from The Roman and English Comedy Consider'd and Compar'd: With Remarks on the Suspicious Husband, and an Examen Into the Merit of the Present Comic Actors Sir Riobard Steele has apologized for his Mixture of the Tragic with the Comic, by faying, that there is a fort of. Difirefs'too mean for Tragedy, and which (as it would be cruel to deprive the World ofi foch ufeful Lefi'ons) ought to have a Place in Comedy. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.