Excerpt from The Champion of Cyrus: A Drama, in Five Acts Imported thus, more wide the Scenic stage Spreads the corrupting curse, the moral bane, Embodying Vice to view, the more to' engage Incautious Youth, and blanch Seduction's stain With winning guise. There, see a specious train Attend the Libertine or Harlot vile, To sap connubial faith, and Virtue to beguile. These lines point whatever of severity may be in them, against two of the most popular Plays on the British Stage The School for Scandal, and The Stranger. 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.