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a good deal of the same humour in the Scornful Lady, wrote by Beaumont and Fletcher, as

aU the quartos declare. The publishers of the General Dictionary, whose accuracy deserves

the hishest applause, have helped me to another play, the Martial Maid, in which Beaumont

from King Charles to Killegrew and Davenant did not

preclude the reigning prince from git ing a similar au-

thority to any person with whom he might chuse to

Mr. Betterton should assign over to Vanbrugh his

licence to perform, and for the future serve only as au

actor, without any concern in the conduct or direction

firom Gerardo's History of Don John, p. 202, and that of Leandro, Bar-

tolus, Amarantha, and Lopez, from The Spanish Curate of the same au-

thor, p. 214, &c.

1 should scarce have adventured in these slippery times on such a work

as this^ if knowing persons had not generally assured me that these au-

thors were the most unquestionable wits this kingdom hath afforded. Mr.

We ebb down dry to pebble-awog^raww;

Dead and insipid, aU despairing sit ;

Lost to behold this great relapse of wit :

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