_A Story, and a known one, long since writ,_ _Truth must take place, and by an able wit,_ _Foul mouth'd detraction daring not deny_ _To give so much to_ Fletcher's _memory;_ _If so, some may object, why then do you_ _Present an old piece to us for a new?_ _Or wherefore will your profest Writer be_ _(Not tax'd of theft before) a Plagiary?_ _To this he answers in his just defence,_ _And to maintain to all our Innocence,_ _Thus much, though he hath travell'd the same way,_ _Demanding, and receiving too the pay_ _For a new Poem, you may find it due,_ _He having neither cheated us, nor you;_ _He vowes, and deeply, that he did no[t] spare_ _The utmost of his strengths, and his best care_ _In the reviving it, and though his powers_ _Could not as he desired, in three short hours_ _Contract the Subject, and much less express_ _The changes, and the various passages_ _That will be look'd for, you may hear this day_ _Some Scenes that will confirm it is a play,_ _He being ambitious that it should be known_ _What's good was_ Fletcher's, _and what ill his own._ * * * * * Epilogue. <i>Still doubtfull, and perplex'd too, whether he</i> <i>Hath done</i> Fletcher <i>right in this Historie,</i> <i>The Poet sits within, since he must know it,</i> <i>He with respect desires that you would shew it</i> <i>By some accustomed sign, if from our action,</i> <i>Or his indeavours you meet satisfaction,</i> <i>With ours he hath his ends, we hope the best,</i> <i>To make that certainty in you doth rest.</i> THE PILGRIM. A COMEDY. * * * * * Persons Represented in the Play. _Governour, of_ Segovia. Verdugo, _a Captain under him._ Alphonso, _an old angry Gentleman._ Curio, } _two Gentlemen, friends to_ Alphonso. Seberto,} Pedro, _the Pilgrim, a noble Gentleman, Servant to_ Alinda. _An old Pilgrim._ Lopes, } _two Out-laws under_ Roderigo. Jaques,} Roderigo, _rival to_ Pedro, _Captain of the Out-laws._ _A Gentleman, of the Country._ _Courtiers._ _Porter._ _Master &_} _of the Mad folks._ _Keepers,_} _3 Gentlemen._ _4 Peasants._ _A Scholar,_ } _A Parson,_ } _Madmen._ _An English-man,_} _Jenkin,_ } _Fool._ _WOMEN._ Alinda, _Daughter to_ Alphonso, Pedro's _Lady._ Juletta, Alinda's _Maid, a witty Lass._ _Ladies._ * * * * * _The Scene_ Spain. * * * * * The principal Actors were, _Joseph Taylor._ _Nicholas Toolie._ _Robert Benfield._ _John Thompson._ _John Lowin._ _John Underwood._ _George Birch._ _James Horn._ _Actus Primus. Scena Prima._ _Enter_ Alphonso, Curio, _and_ Seberto.