Antique engraving by T. Cross of Richard Brome, from Five New Playes (1653). SOURCE: ORIGINAL ENGRAVING.

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Richard Brome (c. 1590? - 1652) was an English dramatist of the Caroline era. Reader, lo heere thou wilt two faces finde, / One of the body, t'other of the Minde; / This by the Graver so, that with much strife / Wee thinke Brome dead, hee's drawne so to the life / That by's owne pen's done so ingeniously / That who reads it, must thinke hee nere shall dy.

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