A Chronicle History of the London Stage 1559-1642
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A mid the multitudinous babbling tongues, Whose plaudits smirch our elder makers fame, One voice clear-ringing gives due laud or blame To each, in turn, where laud or blame belongs. Not his, to wound with unincited wrongs :N or his, mens trivial errors to proclaim :H is, the true mean :wise, thoughtful, still the same. High raised oer nameless, rankless, critic throngs. From him, whose heart-warm ...
MoreA mid the multitudinous babbling tongues, Whose plaudits smirch our elder makers fame, One voice clear-ringing gives due laud or blame To each, in turn, where laud or blame belongs. Not his, to wound with unincited wrongs :N or his, mens trivial errors to proclaim :H is, the true mean :wise, thoughtful, still the same. High raised oer nameless, rankless, critic throngs. From him, whose heart-warm and unsought-for praise Has cheered me through my long and difficult task, Now, while I lay it finisht at his feet, A calm, considerate doom I dare to ask :B ut for him from the world I claim, as meet, A full, triumphant, kingly crown of bays. 1I nthe Preface to Dr. Ward ssecond edition of Doctor Faustus and Fritir Bacon, 1887: Mr. Fleay, whose new Life of Shakespeare will, in my opinion, before long be acknowledged as one of the most important works on the history of the Elizabethan drama which this age has produced.
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