Rich. Flecknoe's ænigmatical characters being rather a new work, than new impression of the old.
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- Rich. Flecknoe's ænigmatical characters being rather a new work, than new impression of the old.
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- Flecknoe, Richard, d. 1678?
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- London :: Printed by R. Wood, for the author,
- 1665.
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"Rich. Flecknoe's ænigmatical characters being rather a new work, than new impression of the old." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A39707.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 31, 2024.
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Page 34
And these forsooth with their little or no wits,
Wod sit in Iudgement of Playes and of Poets.
Is't now enouf that Playes on the Stage
Have so long born the Brunt of Fanatical Rage,
Whilst out of the Pulpit, as out of the Cannon,
Th••ave thunder'd such Vollies of Railings upon 'um;
But such as these in a Tavern must sit,
And arraign and condemn the Playes and the Wit?
How Ti••es are chang'd! In our fore-fathers dayes,
Onely those who had Wit were Iudges of Playes;
But every one now is a Censurer grown▪
And who more forward then those who have none?
But to conclude with our grave Tavern-Benchers,
Compos'd of riotous Gamesters and Wenchers,
Of half-witted Jeerers, and Hectoring Fighters,
Vnless they give over their censuring the Writers,
They'l shortly repent it, when at their next Sessions
Their Names shall be told as well as Professions;
And they so describ'd, as people shall say,
When they see but their faces, behold these are they.