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The Maids Tragedy

Beaumont, Francis (1584-1616)

THE MAIDS TRAGEDY

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Upon Mr. John Fletcher's Plays.

On Mr. John Fletcher's Works.

To Mr. Francis Beaumont (Then living.)

On Mr. Francis Beaumont (Then newly Dead.)

On Mr. Beaumont. (VVritten thirty years since, presently after his Death.)

Upon the Report of the printing of the Dramatical Poems of Mr. John Fletcher, collected before, and now set forth in one Volume.

Mr. John Fletcher his Dramatical works now at last printed.

On the Works of Beaumont and Fletcher, now at length printed.

On the happy Collection of Mr. Fletcher's Works, never before printed.

On the Edition of Mr. Francis Beaumont's, and Mr. John Fletcher's Plays never printed before.

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On Mr. Francis Beaumont (Then newly Dead.)

He that hath such acuteness, and such wit,
As would ask ten good heads to husband it;
He that can write so well that no man dare
Refuse it for the best, let him beware:
BEAUMONT is dead, by whose sole death appears,
Wit's a Disease consumes men in few years.

RICH. CORBET. D. D.