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
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And yet I coulde tell worse and more,
But men wolde weryen it to rede. The second was printed in Tottel's Miscellany ("Songes and Sonettes written by the ryght honorable Lorde Henry Haward late Earle of Surrey, and other", 1557): Flee frõ the prese & dwell with sothfastnes Suffise to thee thy good though it be small, For horde hath hate and climyng ticklenesse Praise hath enuy, and weall is blinde in all Fauour no more, then thee behoue shall. Rede well thy self that others well canst rede, And trouth shall the deliuer it is no drede. ] |
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