Distrest Mother

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. I {hall trouble my reader no farther, than to give him fome {hort hints relating to this play, from the preface of the French author. The following lines of Virgil mark out the fcene, the aetion, and the four principal aetors in this tragedy, together with their ditlinet charaeters excepting that of Hermione.