A New Way to Pay Old Debts A Comoedie |
TO THE INGENIOVS AVTHOR MASTER PHILIP MASSINGER,
ON HIS COMOEDIE Called, A new way to pay old Debts.
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TO THE INGENIOVS AVTHOR MASTER PHILIP MASSINGER, ON HIS COMOEDIE Called, A new way to pay old Debts.
Tis a rare charity, and thou couldst notSo proper to the time haue found a plot:
Yet whilst you teach to pay, you lend, the age
We wretches liue in; that to come, the stage,
The thronged audience that was thither brought
Inuited by your fame, and to be taught
This lesson. All are growne indebted more,
And when they looke for freedome ran in score.
It was a cruell courtesie to call
In hope of liberty, and then, enthrall.
The nobles are your bond-men Gentry, and
They were no men of credit Banckroupts borne
Fit to be trusted with no stocke, but scorne.
You haue more wisely credited to such,
That though they cannot pay, can value much.
I am your debtor too, but to my shame
Repay your nothing backe, but your owne fame.
Henry Moody. miles.
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