Essays on the Stage - Preface to the Campaigners (1689) and Preface to the Translation of Bossuet's Maxims and Reflections on Plays (1699) by Thomas D'Urfey
page 75 of 76 (98%)
page 75 of 76 (98%)
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_original reads_
they make the Poem look like a Bitch overstock'd with Pup...s, and suck ... sense almost to Skin and Bone. For a C.ild to suck t.. Mother t... ... Blood follows, I think is not unrea...able, but fo. . ..tter of Ep....... .o suck the sense of a Poem to the Skin and Bone, is such Fustian ..... that I am even with him with a Dose of _Jollop_ _capital J uncertain_ And then buz home again to his own dormitory in _Shooe-lane_ _original reads_ Sho.e-lane p. 27 [Footnote: Collier,] _page reference missing in original_ p. A2v (_Maxims_ ...) might possibly be thought _original reads_ possibly ] [_Supplementary Note_: Neither of the verse passages quoted on pg. 15 is by Chaucer. The first is from _The Plowman's Tale_, written about 1380 and traditionally attributed to Chaucer: Of freres I have tolde before, In a makynge of a Crede. |
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