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collegiate church of St. Peter, Westminster. The first edition

of his poems appeared in 1640. The only poem printed in Beau-

mont's life-time was, Salmacis and Hermaphroditus, from Ovid,

the age he lived in, but to which Beaumont and Fletcher*s learning and

fortune made them superior. The intermediate lines are extremely beau-

tiful, and marked as such by the late great editor, but yet are much im-

leader happens to remember neither, it may be entertaining to be left to

guess at the diflerent hands. Thus each of then^ describing a beau-

tiful boy.

branded this paper in all the lines, this being the authentic wit that made

Blackfriars an academy, where the three hours' spectacle, while Beau-

mont and Fletcher were presented, was usually of more advantage to thtf

alterum et decus gemellum. And let us now examine the order and magni-

tude of this poetic constellation, and view the joint characters of Beau-

mont and Fletcher.

Beaumont*8 letter at the end of The Nice Valour, gave me a key, which is given to the reader

in the first section of the Preface, and which explains the difference of manner between Beau-

mont and Fletcher.

where our authors fall short in comparison of Shakespeare; the second of

such as are not easily discerned from him; the third of those where Beau-

mont and Fletcher have the advantage.

of that name, at Gracedieu in Leicestershire, and brotlier to Sir Henry

Beaumont, Knight, of the same place ; his grandfather was John Beau«*