Three playes written by Sir William Killigrew, vice-chamberlain to Her Majesty the Queen Consort, 1664, viz. [brace] Selindra, Pandora, Ormasdes.
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Three playes written by Sir William Killigrew, vice-chamberlain to Her Majesty the Queen Consort, 1664, viz. [brace] Selindra, Pandora, Ormasdes.
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Killigrew, William, Sir, 1606-1695.
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London :: Printed by T. Mabb; for John Playfere ...; and Thomas Horsman ...,
1665.
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"Three playes written by Sir William Killigrew, vice-chamberlain to Her Majesty the Queen Consort, 1664, viz. [brace] Selindra, Pandora, Ormasdes." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A47392.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 24, 2024.
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Of Pandoras not being Ap∣proved upon the Stage as a Tragedy.
SIr, you should rather teach our Age the wayOf judging well, then thus have chang'd your Play;You had oblig'd us by imploying wit,Not to reform Pandora, but the Pit:For as the Nightingale, without the ThrongOf other Birds, alone attends her Song,While the loud Daw, his throat displaying, drawsThe whole Assembly of his fellow Daws;So must the VVriter, whose productions shouldTake with the Vulgar, be of vulgar Mould;While Nobler Fancies make a flight too high,For Common view, and lessen as they fly.
Edmund Waller.
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