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Excerpt from The Dramatic Works of John Ford, Vol. 1 of 2: With an Introduction, and Notes Critical and Explanatory
The result may be anticipated. The youth recognises his error, and determines to be very wise and virtuous for the residue of his days; when he is told, in strains not unworthy of the subject, that his days are already numbered, and that the inevitable hour is fast closing upon all his earthly prospects.
Indifferent as is the execution of this piece, it is still far superior to its conception. Passages of considerable beauty, especially in the last two acts, frequently occur; but there is nothing to redeem the absurdity of the plot. Instead of taking up an inexperienced, unsophisticated youth, and opening the world to him for the first time, for the instruo tion of others, the authors have inconsiderately brought forward a kind of modern Virbius a character who had previously run through life and its various changes, and seen and enjoyed infinitely more than is tendered to him in his new career.
The second piece, The Witch of Edmonton, was brought out about the same period as the former, and printed in 1658, probably at the sug gestion of Bird, whose name appears to a few introductory lines, which he calls a prologue.
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