ADVERTISEMENT.
It may not be amiss to take Notice, that,
as the Subject of this Opera is not
drawn from real History, so neither is it a
new Fiction; but shadow'd out from a Novel
in Cervantes's Don Quixote, (Book
IV. of the First Part) call'd, The History
of the Slave. The Readers will find that I
have been obliged to alter some Circumstances
in the Novel, in order to adapt them
to the Conduct of a Drama. The Interlude,
which is added in two Comick Scenes,
is entirely new to our Climate: and the Success
of it is submitted to Experiment, and
the Taste of an Audience.
