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<T Tro><L 1><Y Q><P P2><C +>
A never writer, to an ever
reader. Newes.
*{Eternall reader, you have heere a new}
*{play, never stal'd with the Stage},
*{never clapper-#clawd with the palmes}
*{of the vulger, and yet passing full of}
*{the palme comicall; for it is a birth of}
*{your braine, that never under-#tooke}
*{any thing commicall, vainely: And}
*{were but the vaine names of commedies changde for the}
*{titles of Commodities, or of Playes for Pleas; you should}
*{see all those grand censors, that now stile them such}
*{vanities, flock to them for the maine grace of their}
*{gravities: especially this authors Commedies, that are}
*{so fram'd to the life, that they serve for the most com-mon}
*{Commentaries, of all the actions of our lives, shew-ing}
*{such a dexteritie, and power of witte, that the most}
*{displeased with Playes, are pleasd with his Commedies}.
*{And all such dull and heavy-#witted worldlings, as were}
*{never capable of the witte of a Commedie, comming by}
*{rep . . .
