want of delicacy." Murphy has borrowed from _The Blunderer_ some
incidents of the second act of his _School for Guardians_, played
for the first time in 1767.




DRAMATIS PERSONAE

[Footnote: Moliere, Racine, and Corneille always call the dramatis
personae _acteurs_, and not _personnages_.]

LELIO, _son to_ PANDOLPHUS.

LEANDER, _a young gentleman of good birth_.

ANSELMO, _an old man_.

PANDOLPHUS, _an old man_.

TRUFALDIN, _an old man_.

ANDRES, _a supposed gipsy_.

MASCARILLE, _servant to Lelio_.

[Footnote: _Mascarille_ is a name invented by Moliere, and a
diminutive of the Spanish _mascara_, a mask. Some commentators of
Moliere think that the author, who acted this part, may sometimes have
played it in a mask, but this is now generally contradicted. He seems,