The English traueller As it hath beene publikely acted at the Cock-pit in Drury-lane: by Her Maiesties seruants. Written by Thomas Heyvvood.

TO THE RIGHT WORSHIPFVLL Sir HENRY APPLETON, Knight Barronet, &c.

NOBLE SIR,

FOr many reason I am induced, to present this Poem, to your fauourable acceptance; and not the least of them that alternate Loue, and those frequent curtesies which interchang∣ably past, betwixt your selfe and that good old Gentleman, mine vnkle (Master Edmund Heywood) whom you pleased to grace by the Title of Father: I must con∣fesse, I had altogether slept (my weaklines and bashfullnesse discouraging mee) had they not bin waken'd and animated, by that worthy Gentleman your friend, and my countrey∣man, Sir William Eluish, whom (for his vnmerited loue many wayes extended towards me,) I much honour; Nei∣ther Sir, neede you to thinke it any vnderualuing of your worth, to vndertake the patronage of a Poem in this nature, since the like hath beene done by Roman Laelius, Scipio, Mecaenas, and many other mighty Princes and Captaines, Nay, euen by Augustus Caesar himselfe, concerning whom Ouid is thus read, Detristi: lib. 2.

Inspice ludorum sumptus Auguste tuorum Empta tibimagno, talia multa leges. Haec tu spectasti, spectandaque saepe de desti Maiestas adeo comis vbique tua est.

So highly were they respected in the most flourishing estate of the Roman Empire; and if they haue beene vilefied of late by any Separisticall humorist, (as in the now questio∣ned Histrio-mastix) I hope by the next Terme, (Minerua assistente) to giue such satisfaction to the world, by vindi∣cating many particulars in that worke maliciously exploded and condemned, as that no Gentleman of qualitie and iudge∣ment, but shall therein receiue a reasonable satisfaction; I am loth by tediousnesse to grow troublesome, therefore conclude with a gratefull remembrance of my seruice inter∣mixt with Miriads of zealous wishes for your health of bo∣dy, and peace of minde, with superabundance of Earths blessings, and Heauens graces, euer remaining;

Yours most obseruant, Thomas Heywood.