Excerpt from The Works of Mr. Francis Beaumont and Mr. John Fletcher, Vol. 1 of 10: Containing the Maid's Tragedy; Philaster, or Love Lies a Bleeding; A King and No King; And, the Scornful Lady Does j'on/hn (who is faid conflantly to have con fulted Beaumont, and to have paid the greatefl De ference to his Judgment) does he, I fay, treat him in his Anfwer as a meer Critic, and judge of others Works only? No, but as an eminent Poet, whom he lov'd with a Zeal enough to kindle a Love to his Memory, as long as Poetry delights the Under (landing, or F riendfhip warms the Heart. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from The Works of Mr. Francis Beaumont, and John Fletcher, Vol. 1 of 10: Containing the Maid's Tragedy; Philaster, or Love Lies a Bleeding; A King and No King; And the Scornful Lady The Falje One is one of thol'e Plays that is more dubious as to its Authors. The Prologue (peaks of them in the Plural Number and 'tis probable that Beaumont aflified in the latter Part of it, but I believe not much in the two firll Aéts, as thel'e are fo very much taken from Lucan, and the Obfervation of Beaumone's not indulging himfelf in foch Li berties holds good in all the Plays in which he is known to have had the largcfl Share. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.