Vict. Hold, Olivia! it is not necessary that a husband should be faulty, to make a wife's character exemplary.—Should he be tenderly watchful of your happiness, your gratitude will give a thousand graces to your conduct; whilst the purity of your manners, and the nice honour of your life, will gain you the approbation of those, whose praise is fame.

Oliv. Pretty and matronly! thank you, my dear. We have each struck a bold stroke to-day;—yours has been to reclaim a husband, mine to get one: but the most important is yet to be obtained—the approbation of our judges.

That meed withheld, our labours have been vain;
Pointless my jests, and doubly keen your pain;
Might we their plaudits, and their praise provoke,
Our bold should then be term'd, a happy stroke.

DISPOSITION OF THE CHARACTERS AT
THE FALL OF THE CURTAIN.

Don Cæsar. Donna Olivia.
Don Vasquez. Don Julio.
Don Garcia. Don Carlos.
Don Vincentio.
R.]		 Donna Victoria.
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TRANSCRIBER'S NOTE

Contemporary spellings have generally been retained. Hyphenation isinconsistent throughout. Obvious misspellings and punctuation errorshave been corrected and character names harmonised; the latter appliesin particular to the character of Olivia, who was referred to in theRemarks as "Oliva". Occasionally, the same word occurred at the end ofone line and the beginning of the next, and in all such instances, oneof the two was removed.
A damaged page in the original scans had caused the loss of two wordsin a passage in Act 5, scene two:

No, (no;) the vineyards, and the cornfields, and the woods (of) Rosalvo, are not for him.

The words in brackets were supplemented from another scanned copy ofthe text (same publisher, same year, different edition).

The following substantive changes were made and can be identifiedin the body of the text by a grey dotted underline:

The furniture and decorations are my daughter's taste; would you wish then to remain, or will you give orders to have them changed?The furniture and decorations are my daughter's taste; would you wish them to remain, or will you give orders to have them changed?
Virtue is our first, most awful duty; bow, Laura! bow before her thorneVirtue is our first, most awful duty; bow, Laura! bow before her throne