Of his Writings.

'TIs a great Commendation for a man to be, tam marte quam mercurio; as good at Artes and Armes; and so was he, for he was good at neither; yet he would needs be writing, though he could not spell, and be an Author, without Rhyme or Reason; and without any other learning, then only that of vice and debaucherie: Whence his writings were so scurrilous and prophane, as for less, the Heathens ba∣nisht their Writers formerly, and the Chri∣stians burn their writings by the hand of common Hang-men, for less Mar∣tial's Poet was damn'd, when forc'd by the Furies to confess his crime, he only cry'd out Scripsi, that he had writ: and whilst others shall have o∣ther Books at the latter day pro∣duced against them, he shall only need his own to condemn him and thou∣sands others too; (there's so much of the Devil and of Tomaso in them) but that fevv or none ever Page  [unnumbered] read what he has writ, excepting only such as are so bad already, his writings cannot make them worse, and so corrupted, as they cannot corrupt them more.

Which he perceiving, was so impudent to bring them upon the stage, to infect that with it too, by which he has frighted all chast ears from thence, and will all the rest in time, if he may have but his Playes Acted, or the appointing of those which are.