A select collection of old plays . fruited originally without Date,the only Guide one can have to gucfs at the Age cf it, isfrom its being publiftd by Thomas Heywood after theAuthor s Deceafe, and from its being faid in the Title Pageto have bee>: acted by the Queen s Servants, which I fup-fofe is meant of Queen Elizabeth. // is written by JohnCooke, Gent, and had its Title from one Thomas Green,an excellent Comedian, who acled the Part of Bubble withgreat Applaufe ; and whofe univerfal Repartee to all Com-fitment (fays Langbaine) was Tu quoque. Heywood,in his Preface to the Play, gives thi
A select collection of old plays . fruited originally without Date,the only Guide one can have to gucfs at the Age cf it, isfrom its being publiftd by Thomas Heywood after theAuthor s Deceafe, and from its being faid in the Title Pageto have bee>: acted by the Queen s Servants, which I fup-fofe is meant of Queen Elizabeth. // is written by JohnCooke, Gent, and had its Title from one Thomas Green,an excellent Comedian, who acled the Part of Bubble withgreat Applaufe ; and whofe univerfal Repartee to all Com-fitment (fays Langbaine) was Tu quoque. Heywood,in his Preface to the Play, gives this Aclor the follow?-ing Char after. There was net an Aclor of his natureM in his time, of better Ability in Performance of-what he undertook, more applauded by the Audience, of better* Grace at Court, or of more general Love in the the back of the Title is this Diftich, which Jhews thatthe Aclor, as well as the Author, was then dead. How faft bleak Autumn changeth Florals dye!What yefterday was Green, nows fear and Dramatis Perfonae. C^flR ^j G at b erf crap, , &C. WOMEN. Qartred. jfoice. Phillis. Widvw. Suveatman, a bawd. Nan Tickleman, a wftore> A* [4l
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