Page [unnumbered]
TO THE READER.
I Must make room for one Page more, to tell you how our Bonduca set Foot upon the Stage. The Value of the Original is not unknown to those who have read it in Fletcher: A Value that has often times been prized so high, that the whole Brotherhood of the Quill have for many Years been bla∣med for letting so Ingenious a Relick of the Last Age, as Bonduca, lie dormant, when so inconsiderable an Additional Touch of the Pen was wanting, to make it fit for an Ho∣nourable Reception in This.
This Consideration prompted a Friend of mine, a much abler Hand than my own, to attempt it; not that his Lei∣sure, Attendance or Inclinations, would permit him to make any long Toil of it. For to tell the Truth, the whole Play was revised quite through, and likewise studied up in one Fortnight.
This Undertaker, who beslow'd but Four Days Labour up∣on it, being above the Interest Part of an Author; and like∣wise a Person of that Modesty, as to affect no Plumes from Poetry, he was generously pleased to put it into my Hands to usher it into the World.