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A Præludium to Mr. Richard Bromes Plays.
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Small poems of Divers sorts | ||
A Præludium to Mr. Richard Bromes Plays.
Then we shall still have Plays, and though they mayNot them in their full Glories yet display;
Yet we may please our selves by reading them,
Till a more noble Act this Act condemn.
Happy will that day be, which will advance
This Land from durt of precise Ignorance;
Distinguish moral vertue, and rich wit,
And graceful Action, from an unfit
Parenthesis of Coughes, and Hums and Haes,
Threshing of Cushions, and Tautologies:
Then the dull zelots shall give way, and fly,
Or be converted by bright Poesy;
Apollo may enlighten them, or els
In Scottish Grots they may conceal themselves.
Then shall learn'd Johnson reassume his Seat,
Revive the Phœnix by a second heat,
Create the Globe anew, and people it,
By those that flock to surfeit on his wit.
Judicious Beaumont, and th'ingenious soul
Of Fletcher too may move without control.
Shakespeare (most rich in humours) entertain
The crouded theatres with his happy vein.
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Shall be cri'd up again for famous men:
And the Dramatick Muse no longer prove
The peoples malice, but the peoples love.
Black, and White-Friars too shall flourish again,
Though here have been none since Queen Mary's reign:
Our theatres of lower note in those
More happy days shall scorn the rustick prose
Of a Jack-Pudding, and will please the Rout
With wit enough to bear their Credit out.
The Fortune will be lucky, see no more
Her Benches bare as they have stood before:
The Bull take Courage from applauses given,
To eccho to the Taurus in the heaven:
Lastly, Saint James may no Aversion show,
That Socks and Buskins tread his Stage below.
May this time quickly come, these days of bliss
Drive Ignorance down to the dark Abyss:
Then (with a justly attributed praise)
We'l change our faded Brome to deathless Bayes.
Small poems of Divers sorts | ||