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The Mifer Act 1 Scen:4.

COMEDIE.

Par Monf. DE MOLIERE.

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MISER

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COMED Y.

New done into ENGLISH from the
FRENCH of MOLIERE.

By Mr. OZEL L.

With the Original French oppofite to the
English; and Both more Correctly Printed
than any that have yet appear❜d.

Highly Useful and Entertaining for the LEARNERS
of either LANGUAGE.

LONDON;

inted for B. LINTOT: And Sold by H. LINTOT,
the Crofs-Keys, against St. Dunstan's Church in
Fleet-freet. M. DCC. XXXII.

(Price One Shilling:)

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Mr. OZELL's PREFACE:

Containing Useful REMARKS on the French Tongue, arifing from the many MISTAKES committed by the other Tranflators of MOLIERE'S MISER, &c.

N order to promote the Sale of the following Tranflation of MOLIERE'S PLAYS, the Proprietor of the old Tranflation, which was done by me, almost twenty Years ago, with too much Freedom, and from no good Edition, would have had me taken the fame Course as the other Gentlemen do; that is, dedicate each Play to the Jame Great Names They have done. If I had prefum'd to have follow'd them in that step, I wou'd not have complimented His Royal Highness the Duke on his great Skill in HOUSHOLD AFFAIRS, as thofe Gentlemen do; for That's the meaning of the word ménage, as they erroneously Spell it in their Dedication to the Duke. They mean manége, I fuppofe; for That's the Word for managing the Great Horfe. The other, viz. ménage, is the Management of a Family.

I did not think at first to have taken notice of this Blunder Here, because it belongs to the Examen of another Play, viz. le Bourgeois Gentilhomme, to which that Dedica tion is prefix'd: My Defign at prefent being only to make an Intuition into thofe Gentlemens Tranflation of their firft Play, namely, The Mifer; and, inftead of dedicating it to any particular Perfon, I will prefent the Publick with What I'm fure will be infinitely more ufeful, and that is, Remarks on fuch Phrafes, &c. of the French Tongue, as I think thofe Gentlemen bave miftaken the Senfe of; and this I do, in order to prevent the Learners of either the French or English Tongues from being mis-led thereby.

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