[Transcriber's note: Google: http://books.google.com/books?pg=PA11&dq=editions:OXFORDN10716921&id=6G MHAAAAQAAJ#v=onepage&q=&f=false] THE LAWYERS, A DRAMA, _IN FIVE ACTS,_ TRANSLATED FROM THE GERMAN OF _AUGUSTUS WILLIAM IFFLAND._ * * * * * * * * * BY C. LUDGER. * * * * * * * * * LONDON: PRINTED BV J. W. MYERS, FOR W. WEST, NO. 27, PATERNOSTER-ROW, 1799. [_Price Two Shillings and Sixpence._] ADVERTISEMENT. The Author of the following Drama is universally allowed to be the Garrick of the German Stage, and the Dramatic Rival of KOTZEBUE in the Closet.--The great Object of MR. IFFLAND, in all his Dramatic Productions, is to render the Theatre what it was in the palmy Days of Terence--a School of Morality, by exhibiting Virtue in all her native Charms, and Vice in all her Deformity; or, in the Language of Pope, "To wake the Soul by gentle Strokes of Art, To raise the Genius, and to mend the Heart; In conscious Innocence to make Men bold, Live o'er each Scene, and be what you behold!" DRAMATIS PERSONÆ. Deputy CLARENBACH. CLARENBACH, Master Carpenter. FREDERICA, his Daughter. REISSMAN, Aulic Counsellor. SOPHIA, his Daughter. SELLING, Counsellor. GERNAU, Ranger. WELLENBERG, Lawyer. GROBMAN, Iron Merchant. LEWIS, Deputy Clarenbach's Servant. A Servant of the Aulic Counsellor. THE LAWYERS, A DRAMA. * * * * * ACT I. SCENE I. A plain Tradesman's Room, with old fashioned Furniture. _Master_ CLARENBACH. (Busied with a design.) _Clar._ So!--there is my design, and I think it is a pretty good one. It will make a substantial building.--When I am gone, people will say, when they look at the pile, "Master Clarenbach was a man that knew what he was about." SCENE II. Enter Lewis. _Lew._ Deputy Clarenbach presents his compliments to Master Clarenbach, and sends him something. _Clar._ What? _Lew._ Deputy Clarenbach presents his compliments, and sends something.