The Roman Actor A Tragaedie |
To His long knowne and lou'd Friend, Mr. Philip Massinger, vpon His Roman Actor. |
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To His long knowne and lou'd Friend, Mr. Philip Massinger, vpon His Roman Actor.
If that my Lines being plac'd before thy BookeCould make it sell, or alter but a looke
Of some sowre Censurer, who's apt to say
No one in these Times can produce a Play
Worthy his reading, since of late, 'tis true
The old accepted are more then the new.
Or could I on some Spot o'the Court worke so
To make him speake no more then He doth know;
Not borrowing from His flattering flatter'd friend
What to dispraise, or wherefore to commend.
Then (gentle Friend) I should not blush to bee
Rank'd 'mongst those worthy ones, which heere I see
Vshering this Worke, but why I write to Thee
Is to professe our loues Antiquitie,
Which to this Tragædie must giue my test,
Thou hast made many good, but this thy best.
Ioseph Taylor.
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