Excerpt from The Patriot: A Tragedy in Five Acts Agreeing with my publisher in Opinion, that the state of affairs in Hungary and Transylvania pre sented him with an d - propos for the issuing of a third edition of the Tragedy of Martinuzzi, I was about, for the first time since it was performed, to glance over that play, when it occurred to me to resort, in preference, to The Patriot, a drama that was written previous to the publication of my poem, entitled The Hungarian Daughter, from which poem the five-act piece represented a few years ago at the Lyceum for seven-and-twenty consecutive nights, was (not by the Author) abridged. For the faults of that medley of song and' inflation I never considered myself, and it would not be fair to hold me answerable. My literary friends who initiated its production on the stage, and also the principal performers, were confident as to a successful result. I foreboded other wise, nor did I withhold my unfavourable judgment from any of the parties concerned. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.