Excerpt from Gay's Fables and Other Poems; Cotton's Visions in Verse; Moore's Fables for the Female Sex: With Sketches of the Authors' Lives But fortune has always been unconstant. Not long afterwards (1717) he endeavoured to entertain the town with Three Hours after Marriage;' a comedy, written, as there is sufficient reason for believing, by the joint anistance of Pope and Arbuthnot. One purpose of it was to bring into contempt Dr. Woodward, the fos silist, a man not really or justly contemptible. It had the fate which such outrages deserve; the scene in which Woodward was directly and apparently ridi culed, by the introduction of a mummy and a croco dile, disgusted the audience, and the performance was driven of the stage with general condemnation. 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.