The Brazen Age The first Act containing, The death of the Centaure Nessus, The Second, The Tragedy of Meleager : The Third The Tragedy of Iason and Medea, The Fovrth, Uvlcans Net : The Fifth. The Labours and death of Hercvles |
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Homer.
He that expects fiue short Acts can containe
Each circumstance of these things we present,
Me thinkes should shew more barrennesse then braine:
All we haue done we aime at your content,
Striuing to illustrate things not knowne to all,
In which the learnd can onely censure right:
The rest we craue, whom we vnlettered call,
Rather to attend then iudge: for more then sight
We seeke to please. The vnderstanding eare
Which we haue hitherto most gracious found,
Your generall loue, we rather hope then feare:
For that of all our labours is the ground.
If from your loue in any point we stray,
Thinke Homer blind, and blind men misse their way.
He that expects fiue short Acts can containe
Each circumstance of these things we present,
Me thinkes should shew more barrennesse then braine:
All we haue done we aime at your content,
Striuing to illustrate things not knowne to all,
In which the learnd can onely censure right:
The rest we craue, whom we vnlettered call,
Rather to attend then iudge: for more then sight
We seeke to please. The vnderstanding eare
Which we haue hitherto most gracious found,
Your generall loue, we rather hope then feare:
For that of all our labours is the ground.
If from your loue in any point we stray,
Thinke Homer blind, and blind men misse their way.
FINIS.
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