Scene the Second.
This Scene is a Part of the Prologue; for which our Poet is not to be excus'd, not only for placing of it here, and so confounding the Spectators Attention by mingling their Concerns with the Actors, but likewise
Plautus's comedies ... made English, with critical remarks upon each play.
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- Plautus's comedies ... made English, with critical remarks upon each play.
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- Plautus, Titus Maccius.
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- London :: Printed for Abel Swalle and T. Child ...,
- 1694.
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foretelling in it, the Catastrophe, which ought to have been carefully conceal'd from them. The first of these Faults, to wit, his mingling the Actors and Spectators Concerns, he is several times guilty of in other Plays, and when it is not by way of Prologue neither; but the latter, he is guilty of no where but in his Prologue to Poenulus, that I remember.
Pag. 22. l. 12. My Father's so tender of Alcmena.] Al∣cumena hujus honoris gratiâ, pater curavit. As Madam Dacier observes, this Tenderness is in respect of her Health and Body, and not of her Reputation, as the Word Ho∣noris seem to imply.