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TRAGEDY.

As it is Acted at the

THEATRE-ROYAL in Drury-Lane,
By His MAJESTY'S SERVANTS.

By Mr. ADDISON.

Ecce Spectaculum dignum, ad quod refpiciat, intentus operi
fuo, Deus! Ecce par Deo dignum, vir fortis cum mald for-
tund compofitus! Non video, inquam, quid habeat in ter-
ris Jupiter pulchrius, fi convertere animum velit, quàm
ut fpectet Catonem, jam partibus non femel fractis, niki-
lominùs inter ruinas publicas erectum.
Sen. de Divin. Prov.

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Printed for J. TONSON: And Sold by W. FEALES at
Rowe's Head, the Corner of Effex Street, in the Strande

MDCCXXXIII.

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To the Author of the

TRAGEDY of CATO.

WHILE you the fierce divided Britons awe,

And Cato, with an equal Virtue, draw,

While Envy is it self in Wonder loft,

And Factions strive who shall applaud you most ;
Forgive the Fond Ambition of a Friend,

Who hopes himself, not you, to recommend ;
And joins the Applaufe which all the Learn'd bestow
On one, to whom a perfect Work they owe.

*

To my light Scenes I once infcrib'd Your Name,
And impotently ftrove to borrow Fame :

Soon will that die, which adds thy Name to mine;
Let me, then, live, join'd to a Work of Thine.

*Tender Husband, De-
dicated to Mr. Addifon.

RICHARD STEELE,

TH

HO' Cato fhines in Virgil's Epic Song,
Prefcribing Laws among th' Elysian Throng i

Tho' Lucan's Verse, exalted by his Name,
O'er Gods themselves has rais'd the Heroe's Fame';

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