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For the action of the play, twas generally well, and I dare affirme, with the Ioint testimony of some of their owne quality, (for the true imitation of life, without striuing to make nature a monster) the best that euer became them: whereof as I make a generall acknowledgement, so in particular I must remember the well approued industry of my freind Maister Perkins, and confesse the worth of his action did Crowne both the beginning and end.