EARL OF ESSEX, for instance, is a little garden of choice rarities,
whence you can scarce transplant one line so as to preserve its
original beauty. This must account to the reader for his missing the
names of several of his acquaintance, which he had certainly found
here, had I ever read their works; for which, if I have not a just
esteem, I can at least say with Cicero, "Quae non contemno, quippe quae
nunquam legerim." However, that the reader may meet with due
satisfaction in this point, I have a young commentator from the
university, who is reading over all the modern tragedies, at five
shillings a dozen, and collecting all that they have stole from our
author, which shall be shortly added as an appendix to this work.


DRAMATIS PERSONAe.

MEN.

_King Arthur_, a passionate sort of king, |
husband to queen Dollallolla, of whom he |
stands a little in fear; father to Huncamunca,| Mr MULLART.
whom he is very fond of, and in love with |
Glumdalca. |


_Tom Thumb the Great_, a little hero |
with a great soul, something violent in his | YOUNG
temper, which is a little abated by his | VERHUYCK.
love for Huncamunca. |