†Great were the Expectations of the publick from this performance of the Author, which we are told in the Ecclesiastic Characteristicks, carried dramatick poetry to the Summit of perfection, So that had it been published, it was believed that never one would have presumed to have wrote a Tragedy after it. But, as that ingenious Writer imagined, the knowledge of this Effect, And the Compassion thence arising to future Authors, determined the humble and benevolent theatrick Divine to suppress it’s publication: And we are told by the Advertisement in the Edin[burg]h Ev[ening] Courant that the same humble & self-denied temper had almost smothered the present production – Even after the two Journeys the Author made to London, & Sollicitations to Mr Garrick to receive it.⁴⁵