Murphy had much theatrical experience as well as taste, it is astonishing that the personage most talked of, most praised, and by far the most perfect character in the whole drama, should never make his appearance!

Timoleon is a great warrior and a good man; and it seems wonderful how the audience, on the first night of the play, would quit the theatre without seeing him. Yet it was but modesty and respect in the author, not to bring so magnanimous a hero on the scene, to speak bad poetry.

The great tragic dramatist, Otway, wrote miserable comedies: Let it be no disgrace to Murphy that he has written an indifferent tragedy. By the merit of his comic scenes, his tragic ones are perhaps judged, and in the comparison lose half their value.

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DRAMATIS PERSONÆ.

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THE GRECIAN DAUGHTER.

ACT THE FIRST.

SCENE I.

Enter Melanthon and Philotas.

Melanthon

Philotas

Mel. Yet, yet a moment; hear, Philotas, hear me.

Phil. No more; it must not be.

Mel. Obdurate man;

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