¶ESTC T798. FIRST EDITION. This issue is without the list of subscribers, and with the price on the titlepage. Henry Brooke's tragedy, a thinly veiled attack on Walpole, was banned by the newly appointed censor. This assured its success upon publication, and it was staged successfully in Dublin as The Patriot. The ban provoked Samuel Johnson's ironic, A Compleat Vindication of the Licensers of the Stage.