Teks asli (Inggris)

PREFACE. It would appear like affectation to offer an apology for any scenes or passages omitted or added, in this play, different from the original: its reception has given me confidence to suppose what I have done is right; for Kotzebue’s “Child of Love” in Germany, was never more attractive than “Lovers’ Vows” has been in England. I could trouble my reader with many pages to disclose the motives which induced me to alter, with the exception of a few common-place sentences only, t