*_The Borderers: a Tragedy_.
Of this dramatic work I have little to say in addition to the short printed note which will be found attached to it.

It was composed at Racedown in Dorset, during the latter part of the year 1795, and in the course of the following year.

Had it been the work of a later period of life, it would have been different in some respects from what it is now.
The plot would have been something more complex, and a greater variety of characters introduced, to relieve the mind from the pressure of incidents so mournful; the manners also would have been more attended to.

My care was almost exclusively given to the passions and the characters, and the position in which the persons in the drama stood relatively to each other, that the reader (for I never thought of the stage at the time it was written) might be moved, and to a degree instructed, by lights penetrating somewhat into the depths of our nature.

In this endeavour, I cannot think, upon a very late review, that I have failed.