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[Illustration: COUNT OF NARBONNE
  THEODORE--SHE HASTENED TO THE CAVE AND VANISHED FROM MY SIGHT
  ACT I SCENE I
  PAINTED BY COOK  PUBLISH'D BY LONGMAN & CO.  ENGRAV'D BY ENGLEHEART
  1807]






THE COUNT OF NARBONNE; A TRAGEDY, IN FIVE ACTS;

By ROBERT JEPHSON, Esq.

AS PERFORMED AT THE THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT GARDEN.

  PRINTED UNDER THE AUTHORITY OF THE MANAGERS
  FROM THE PROMPT BOOK.

WITH REMARKS BY Mrs. INCHBALD.

  LONDON:
  PRINTED FOR LONGMAN, HURST, REES, AND ORME, PATERNOSTER ROW.


  WILLIAM SAVAGE, PRINTER
  LONDON.




REMARKS.


This tragedy was brought upon the stage in 1780; it was extremely
admired, and exceedingly attractive.

Neither "The Winter's Tale", nor "Henry VIII" by Shakspeare, were at
that time performed at either of the theatres; and the town had no
immediate comparison to draw between the conjugal incidents in "The
Count of Narbonne," and those which occur in these two very superior
dramas.

The Cardinal Wolsey of Shakspeare, is, by Jephson, changed into a holy
and virtuous priest; but his importance is, perhaps, somewhat diminished
by a discovery, which was intended to heighten the interest of his
character; but which is introduced in too sudden, and romantic a manner,
to produce the desired consequence upon