The Maids Tragedy :: :: University of Virginia Library

The Maids Tragedy

Beaumont, Francis (1584-1616)

THE MAIDS TRAGEDY

[epigraph]

Upon Mr. John Fletcher's Plays.

On Mr. John Fletcher's Works.

To Mr. Francis Beaumont (Then living.)

On Mr. Francis Beaumont (Then newly Dead.)

On Mr. Beaumont. (VVritten thirty years since, presently after his Death.)

Upon the Report of the printing of the Dramatical Poems of Mr. John Fletcher, collected before, and now set forth in one Volume.

Mr. John Fletcher his Dramatical works now at last printed.

On the Works of Beaumont and Fletcher, now at length printed.

On the happy Collection of Mr. Fletcher's Works, never before printed.

On the Edition of Mr. Francis Beaumont's, and Mr. John Fletcher's Plays never printed before.

Collapse All | Expand All expand section

Thus, two great Consul-Poets all things sway'd,
Till all was English Born, or English Made:
Mitre and Coyfe, here into one Piece spun,
BEAUMONT a Judge's, this a Prelate's Son.
What strange Production is at last display'd
(Got by two Fathers without Female aid)
Behold, two Masculines espous'd each other,
Wit and the World were born without a Mother.