+Critic.+ Out o' this poetry! I wonder what You do with this disease, a seed of vipers Spawn'd in Parnassus' pool; whom the world frowns on, And here you vent your poison on the stage. +Author.+ What say you, sir? +Critic.+ Oh, you are deaf to all Sounds but a _plaudite_; and yet you may Remember, if you please, what entertainment Some of your tribe have had, that have took pains To be contemn'd and laugh'd at by the vulgar, And then ascrib'd it to their ignorance. I should be loath to see you move their spleens With no better success, and then with some Commendatory epistles, fly to the press To vindicate your credit. +Author.+ What if I do? +Critic.+ By my consent, I'll have you Banish'd the stage, proscrib'd and interdicted Castalian water, and poetical fire." --_Collier._ [297] [In a copy now before me, which, a note on the fly-leaf says, sold at Sotheby's, in 1817, for £6. 16s. 6d., the date 1637 on the engraved title has been altered with the pen, the "7" being changed into "8." There is only one edition in 4º; but this circumstance has led to the mistaken notion that there were impressions in 1637 and 1638.] DRAMATIS PERSONÆ. +The Duke of Pisa.+[298] +Leonardo+, } _two courtiers_. +Donato+, } +Veterano+, _the Antiquary_. +Gasparo+, _a magnifico of Pisa_. +Lorenzo+, _an old gentleman_. +Mocinigo+, _an old gentleman that would appear young_. +Lionel+, _nephew to the Antiquary_. +Petrucio+, _a foolish gentleman, son to Gasparo_. +Aurelio+, _a young gentleman_. +Aurelio's Father+, _in the disguise of a bravo_. _His +Boy+._ +Petro+, _the Antiquary's boy_. +Æmilia+, _wife to Lorenzo_. +Lucretia+, _daughter to Lorenzo_. +Angelia+, _sister to Lionel, in the disguise of a page_. +Julia+, } _two waiting-women_. +Baccha+, } _A +Cook+._ _Two +Servants+._ _The Scene, Pisa._ FOOTNOTES: [298] The scene, however, seems to be laid at Venice. The Rialto is mentioned in act i., and Venice is again spoken of in act iii. as where the transactions of the play are carried on.--_Pegge._ [It may be added that there was never any _Duke of Pisa_, and that most of the names are Venetian.] THE ANTIQUARY.[299] ACT I., SCENE I. _Enter +Lionel+ and +Petrucio+._ +Lio.+ Now, sir, let me bid you welcome to your country and the longing expectation of those friends that have almost languished for the sight of you. [_Aside._] I must flatter him, and stroke him too; he will give no milk else.