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Show MPE Q\Er {Brea L 1may by Cardig > (85 Eere is a King, the Queen, and their tw a w a R h d v d n K T Sons oives it betwixt his two Sous, They quar- e : g u T t l K h o B d The E Which provokes the Mother to Kill the E e t M th l Ki n K th po re Th der l o p th g St a cl k m t And th rife and difpatch old Gorboduck 1t is obje@ted by our Neighbours againf the Englifh,that wedelight inbloody {pecta nd prin But ea dramatic l‘)‘lfi f}'m' be Supe e ahed: ) B, erio dfor Come for Trigd] of Buebu ubtls any o [hfi mighl b ake[pwlm 7 ha ‘) A fr cles Ou Poet wh have no imitate Gorboduckt in the regularity and roundnef of the defign, havenotfailed onthe Theatr ro gwe us theafrocité and blood, enoug in all Confcience. From thistime Dramatick Poetry began to thrive with us, an flourith wonderfully. The French confef they had nothing in this kind confiderabl till 1635. that the Academy Royal wa founded. Long before which time we ha from Shake[pear, Fletcher, and Een. Jobnfon whole Volumes; at this day in poffe(fio of the Stage, and a&ed with'greater applaufe than ever Yet afterall, I fear wha Quintilian pronounced concerning the Roman Comedy, may as juftly be faid of Englith Tragedy: In Tragedia maxime clandicamus, vix levem confequimur umbram. 1 Tragedy we come fhort extreamly; hardl have wea flender thadow of it =~ CHAP |