...words, Fight over York and Lancaster's long jars And in the tiring-house bring wounds, to scars. He rather prays, you will be pleased to see One such...Nor creaking throne comes down, the boys to please ; Nor nimble squib is seen to make afear'd The gentlewomen." But a series of detached quotations, which...

...be pleased to see One such to-day, as other plays should be; [that is, one he wrote himself "\ Whore neither chorus wafts you o'er the seas, Nor creaking...in the prologue to his " Every Man in his Humour." Again, in the "Induction" to his "Bartholomew Fair," he has this fling at " The Tempest : " " If there...

...the tyring-house bring wounds to scars. He rather prays you will be pleas'd to see One such, lo-day, as other plays should be ; Where neither chorus wafts...Nor creaking throne comes down the boys to please ; Nor nimble squib is seen to make afeard The gentlewomen ; nor roll'd bullet heard To say it thunders;...

...wounds to srart. He rather prays you will be pleas'd to see One such, to-day, as other plays should be j Where neither chorus wafts you o'er the seas, Nor creaking throne comes down the boys to please; Nor nimble squib is seen to make afeard The gentlewomen ; nor roll'd bullet heard To say it thunders...

...be pleas'd to see." 1 He wishes to represent on the stage ^ " One such to-day, as other plays shou'd be ; Where neither chorus wafts you o'er the seas, Nor creaking throne comes down the boys ta please : Nor nimble squib is seen to make afeard The gentlewomen. . . . But deeds, and language,...

...customs of the age, Or purchase your delight at such a rate As, for it he himself must justly hate He rather prays you will be pleased to see One such to-day, as other plays should be." The personages his comedy chooses are such as true comedy, by which we may suppose him to mean classic...

...words, Fight over York and Lancaster's long jars, And in the tyring-house bring wounds to scars. He rather prays you will be pleased to see One such to-day,...Nor creaking throne comes down the boys to please : Nor nimble squib is seen to make afeard The gentlewoman ; nor rolled bullet heard To say, it thunders...

...half-foot words, Fight over York and Lancaster's long jars. ... He rather prays you will be pleas'd to see One such to-day, as other plays should be ; Where neither chorus wafts you o'er the seas, Kor creaking throne comes down the boys to pleaMS Nor nimble squib is seen to make afeard The gentlewomen....

...Lancaster's long jars, And in the tyring-house bring wounds to scars. He rather prays you will be pleas'd to see One such, to-day, as other plays should be...Nor creaking throne comes down the boys to please; Nor nimble squib is seen to make afeard The gentlewomen j nor roll'd bullet heard To say it thunders;...

...over York and Lancaster's long jars, And in the tiring-house bring wounds to scars I He [that is, Ken himself"] rather prays you will be pleased to see One such to-day, as other plays should be; [that is, one he wrote himself"] Where neither chorus wafts you o'er the seas, Nor creaking throne...