Changes: or, Love in a maze A comedie, as it was presented at the Private House in Salisbury Court, by the Company of His Majesties Revels. Written by Iames Shirley, Gent.
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- Changes: or, Love in a maze A comedie, as it was presented at the Private House in Salisbury Court, by the Company of His Majesties Revels. Written by Iames Shirley, Gent.
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- Shirley, James, 1596-1666.
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- London :: Printed by G[eorge] P[urslowe] for William Cooke, and are to be sold at his shop neere Furnivals Inne gate in Holborne,
- 1632.
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"Changes: or, Love in a maze A comedie, as it was presented at the Private House in Salisbury Court, by the Company of His Majesties Revels. Written by Iames Shirley, Gent." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A12129.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 6, 2024.
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TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE, THE LADY DOROTHIE SHIRLEY.
MAdame, who make the glory of your blood No priviledge at all to be lesse good; Pardon the rudenesse of a Comedy, That (taught too great ambition) would fly To kisse your white hand, and receive from thence Both an authority, and innocence. 'Tis not this great man▪ nor that Prince, whose fame Can more advance a Poem, than your name, To whose cleere vertue truth is bound, and we, That there is so much left for History. I doe acknowledge custome, that to men Such Poems are presented; but my pen Is not engag'd nor can allow too farre A Salick Law in Poetry, to barre Ladies th'inheritance of wit, whose soule Is active, and as able to controule,Page [unnumbered]
As some 'usurpe the Chaire, which write a stile
To breath the Reader better than a mile;
But no such empty titles but my flame;
Nor will I sinne so much, to shew their name
In print; some servile Muses be their drudge,
That sweat to finde a Patron, not a Iudge.
To you, great Lady, then, in whom doe meet
Candor and Iudgement, humble as your feet
I vow these Papers, wishing you may see
Ioyes multiplied, to your eternitie.
Your Honors devoted Seruant, I A. SHIRLEY.