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To my friend the Authour on his Fatall Union.
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To my friend the Authour on his Fatall Union.
What? Printed though not acted? do's this age
Use to employ the Presse before the Stage?
Perhaps thy Tragedy did claime such state
As none of us should fitly personate:
Or swell'd so full of fancie, we might feare
A pleasant surfeit taken through the eare;
How as distraught with too much sense, wee finde
Calantha shew her fixt, unsettled minde;
Distraction cloth'd in such a dresse of wit,
That even staid judgements well may envie it:
Them thrice, thrice happie I esteeme to be
That are indued with such rare Lunacy.
Use to employ the Presse before the Stage?
Perhaps thy Tragedy did claime such state
As none of us should fitly personate:
Or swell'd so full of fancie, we might feare
A pleasant surfeit taken through the eare;
How as distraught with too much sense, wee finde
Calantha shew her fixt, unsettled minde;
Distraction cloth'd in such a dresse of wit,
That even staid judgements well may envie it:
Them thrice, thrice happie I esteeme to be
That are indued with such rare Lunacy.
Felicia from her sex, and friends exil'd,
Is pregnant with conceits, as great with child:
While wee mov'd by her passion, love her more,
Than e're she doated on the Prince before.
Methinkes Valenzo, and Charintha meete
Chastly though yet unmarried, in one sheete;
At length the wish't Catastrophe combines
Her myrtle and his bay, in amorous twines:
Is pregnant with conceits, as great with child:
While wee mov'd by her passion, love her more,
Than e're she doated on the Prince before.
Methinkes Valenzo, and Charintha meete
Chastly though yet unmarried, in one sheete;
At length the wish't Catastrophe combines
Her myrtle and his bay, in amorous twines:
Ursini to our censure doth commend
A faithlesse Traytour, though most truly penn'd,
And masked Zisco, though thrice blacker now,
Richly: deserves the Readers Candid brow:
Thy quill upholds Ferrando's royaltie,
Who before Naple's King, s'now crown'd by thee;
Changing the golden circlet of his brow
For verdant sprigges, crop't from thy Laurell bough:
Thy interludes so apt, their queintnesse such,
Our mirth doth make us wrong thy plot too much;
To which (like thy Physitian) streight wee fly,
Abhorring others skilfull'st harmony.
Go on, brave Genius, though some fooles controule
The envy'd soaring of thine active soule.
A faithlesse Traytour, though most truly penn'd,
And masked Zisco, though thrice blacker now,
Richly: deserves the Readers Candid brow:
Thy quill upholds Ferrando's royaltie,
Who before Naple's King, s'now crown'd by thee;
Changing the golden circlet of his brow
For verdant sprigges, crop't from thy Laurell bough:
Thy interludes so apt, their queintnesse such,
Our mirth doth make us wrong thy plot too much;
To which (like thy Physitian) streight wee fly,
Abhorring others skilfull'st harmony.
Go on, brave Genius, though some fooles controule
The envy'd soaring of thine active soule.
Ed: Hall. A. B. C. Exon.
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