The Devils law-case
| dc.contributor | Gunby, David Department of English University of Canterbury |
| dc.contributor.author | Webster, John, 1580?-1625? |
| dc.coverage.placeName | London |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2018-07-27 |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2019-07-04T11:04:15Z |
| dc.date.available | 2019-07-04T11:04:15Z |
| dc.date.created | 1623 |
| dc.date.issued | 1985-03-06 |
| dc.identifier | ota:0607 |
| dc.identifier.citation | http://purl.ox.ac.uk/ota/0607 |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12024/0607 |
| dc.description.abstract | The complete works of John Webster was published in four vols |
| dc.format.extent | Text data (1 file : ca. 136 KB) |
| dc.format.medium | Digital bitstream |
| dc.language | English |
| dc.language.iso | eng |
| dc.publisher | University of Oxford |
| dc.relation.ispartof | Legacy Collection Digital Museum |
| dc.rights | Distributed by the University of Oxford under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. |
| dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ |
| dc.rights.label | PUB |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Plays -- England -- 17th century |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Comedies -- England -- 17th century |
| dc.title | The Devils law-case |
| dc.type | Text |
| has.files | yes |
| branding | Oxford Text Archive |
| files.size | 145702 |
| files.count | 2 |
| otaterms.date.range | 1600-1699 |
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<TITLE THE DEVILS LAW-CASE.>
TO THE RIGHT WORTHIE, AND ALL-ACCOMPLISHT GENTLEMAN, SIR THOMAS FINCH,
KNIGHT BARONET.
SIR,LET IT NOT APPEARE STRANGE, THAT I DOE ASPIRE TO YOUR
PATRONAGE. THINGS THAT TASTE OF ANY GOODNESSE,LOVE TO BEE
SHELTER'D NEERE GOODNESSE:NOR DO I FLATTER IN THIS(WHICH
I HATE)ONELY TOUCH AT THE ORIGINALL COPY OF YOUR VERTUES. SOME
OF MY OTHER WORKS,AS THE WHITE DEVILL,THE DUTCHESSE OF MALFI,
GUISE,AND OTHERS,YOU HAVE FORMERLY SEENE;I PRESENT THIS HUMBLY
TO KISSE YOUR HANDS,AND TO FIND YOUR ALLOWANCE. NOR DOE I
MUCH DOUBT IT,KNOWING THE GREATEST OF THE CAESARS,HAVE CHEERE-
FULLY ENTERTAIN'D LESSE POEMS THEN THIS:AND HAD I THOUGHT IT
UNWORTHY.I HAD NOT ENQUIRED AFTER SO WORTHY A PATRONAGE. YOUR
SELFE I UNDERSTAND,TO BEE ALL CURTESIE. I DOUBT NOT THEREFORE OF
YOUR ACCEPTANCE,BUT RESOLVE,THAT MY ELECTION IS HAPPIE. FOR
WHICH FAVOUR DONE MEE,I SHALL EVER REST
YOUR WORSHIPS HUMBLY DEVOTED, . . .
