The Follies of a Day; or, The Marriage of Figaro: A comedy, as it is now performing at the Theatre-Royal, Covent-Garden. From the French of M. de Beaumarchais

· 1799

Original stage directions were usually in italic and placed in parentheses ( ). A few inconsistencies--no closing parenthesis, use of [ instead of (, no italic--have been left unchanged. Though to thank the Public is to thank nobody, since no particular Person takes this Sort of Compliments to himself, yet were I not to feel that Gratitude, which individually I know not where to pay, I were unworthy of past, of present, or of future Favours.…

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