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To his friend the Author.
You may remember how you chid me whenI ranckt you equall with those glorious men;
Beaumont, and Fletcher: if you loue not praise
You must forbeare the publishing of playes.
The craftie Mazes of the cunning plot;
The polish'd phrase; the sweet expressions; got
Neither by theft, nor violence; the conceipt
Fresh, and vnsullied; All is of weight,
Able to make the captiue Reader know
I did but iustice when I plac't you so.
A shamefast Blushing would become the brow
Of some weake Virgin writer, we allow,
Should blush at commendations, you should boast.
If any thinke I flatter, let him looke
Of from my idle trifles on thy Booke.
Thomas Iay. Miles.
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