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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%)
_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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