To me Massinger is one of the most interesting as well as one of the most delightful of the old dramatists, not so much for his passion or power, though at times he reaches both, as for the love he shows for those things that are lovely and of good report in human nature, for his sympathy with what is generous and high-minded and honorable and for his equable flow of a good every-day kind of poetry, with few rapids or cataracts, but singularly soothing and companionable. LOWELL A NEW WAY TO PAY OLD DEBTS A COMOEDIE _As it hath beene often acted at the Phoenix in Drury-Lane, by the Queenes Maiesties seruants._ The Author. PHILIP MASSINGER. NOLI ALTVM SAPERE (in printer's mark) LONDON, Printed by _E. P._ for _Henry Seyle_, dwelling in _S. Pauls_ Church-yard, at the signe of the Tygers head. Anno. M. DC. XXXIII. Ford was of the first order of poets. He sought for sublimity, not by parcels in metaphors or visible images, but directly where she has her full residence in the heart of man; in the actions and sufferings of the greatest minds. There is a grandeur of the soul above mountains, seas, and the elements. Even in the poor perverted reason of Giovanni and Annabella we discover traces of that fiery particle, which in the irregular starting from out of the road of beaten action, discovers something of a right line even in obliquity, and shows hints of an improvable greatness in the lowest descents and degradation of our nature. LAMB THE BROKEN HEART. A Tragedy. _ACTED_ By the KINGS Majesties Seruants at the priuate House in the BLACK-FRIERS. _Fide Honor._ [Illustration]