Beaumont and Fletcher's Works, Vol. 04 of 10Fletcher, John
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Beaumont and Fletcher's Works, Vol. 04 of 10
Fletcher, John
English drama
Sole Soul of _Drammas_, thou who only art
Whole in the whole, and whole in ev'ry _Part_.
Thy _fury_ every scene with spirit warmes,
And that same _spirit_ every line _informes_.
No _Commas_ ly intranc'd, and rise up sense
Three, four lines off, such is thy _Influence_.
Thy woords are all _alive_; and thou ne're writ
_Things to come to themselves_, nor _Types_ of _Wit_,
All lives, and is _fulfill'd_. And for thy _Plot_
When ere we read _we have, and have it not_,
And glad to be deceiv'd, finding thy Drift
T' excell our guess at every turn, and shift.
Some new _Meanders_ still do put us out,
Yet find that nearest what we thought _about_.
Through all Intriqu's we are securely lead,
And all the way we pass w'ave hold 'oth' thread,
Which a long while we _feel_ not, till thy Close
Winding the _Bottom_ up the _Bottom_ showes.
H. HARINGTON.
On Mr. _FLETCHERS Wild-Goose Chase recovered_.
This sprightly _Posthume_, whom our pious fear
Bewail'd as if it an _abortive_ were
(And out of sense of that, no _gen'rous breast_
But a forsaken lover's grief exprest)
Hath forc'd his way thorough the _pangs_ of _Fate_,
And in his _infancy's_ at _mans estate_.
Thus that _Fam'd flood_ that's _plung'd_ into a grave
For many leagues, at length _exalts_ his wave;
Leapes from his Sepulcher, and proudly slides
Through's banks in deeper, more expanded tides;
Till to his watry Center he hath got
By wrigling twines, subtile as _FLETCHER'S plot_.
That 'tis a sacred birth from hence we know,
It doth by _buriall_ more _glorious_ grow:
For Saints by persecution thrive; and none
Is Martyr'd, but's _opprest_ into a _throne_.
There reign he to Time's end! while we from this,
Doe calculate his _Apotheosis_.
JAMES RAMSEY.
p. =314=, ll. 3 and 4. _Omitted in_ A. l. 5. A] Drammatis Personæ.
_Instead of the Actors' names being given in a list separately, they
follow the names and descriptions of the characters, thus_:
De-Gard ... Acted by Mr. _Robert Benfield_.
La-Castre ... Acted by Mr. _Richard Robinson_.
Mirabell ... Incomparably Acted by Mr. _Joseph Taylor_.
Pinac ... Admirably well Acted by Mr. _Thomas Pollard_.
Belleur ... Most naturally Acted by Mr. _John Lowin_.
Nantolet ... Acted by Mr. _William Penn_.
Lugier ... Acted by Mr. _Hilliard Swanston_.
Oriana ... Acted by Mr. _Steph. Hammerton_.
Rosalura } ... {_William Trigg._
Lillia-Bianca } ... {_Sander Gough._
Petella ... Their servant Mr. _Shanck_.
* * * * *
A young Factor by Mr. _John Hony-man_.
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