Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from A Select Collection of Old Plays, Vol. 10
As if for writing be were doom'd to tb' figbt. Or el/e, mile/s you do protec't bis Fame, Y'bad/am'd bis Play, and jentenc'd bim to tb' Flame. For tboagb your Name, or Power, were i'tb' Reprieve, Sacb W orbs, be 'tbinbs, are but condemn'd to live. Lvbicb for tbis Place-being re/cze'd from tbe Fire, Tabe Ruin from tb' Advancement, and fall bigberu Tbougb none, be bopes, fit bere apon bis fit, As if be Poems did, or Plays commit. Tet be mnfi needs fear Gen/are, tbat fears Praije, Nor would write jiill, er't to ficcceed i'tb' Bays. For be is not o'tb' Trade, nor would excel In tbis bind, wbere 'tis Ligbtnefs to do well. Yet as tbe Gods refin'd bafe Tbings, and fome Beafisfoal i 'tb' Herd grew pare i'tb' Hecatomb And as tbe Ox prepar'd, and crowned Bull.
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