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Excerpt from The Plays of Philip Massinger, Vol. 2 of 4: With Notes Critical and Explanatory; Containing the Bondman, the Renegado, the Parliament of Love, the Roman Actor, the Great Duke of Florence
Iv/zen that renowned worthy, that, brought with him] In this line Mr. M. Mason omits the second that, which, he says de stroys both sense and metre. The redtiplication is entirely in Massinger's manner, and assuredly destroys neither. With te Spect to the sense, that is enforced by it; and no very exquisite ear is required, to pefceive that the metre is improved. v-how often will it be necessary to observe, that our old dramatists never counted their syllables on their hugers? About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
