Plautus's comedies ... made English, with critical remarks upon each play.

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Title: Plautus's comedies ... made English, with critical remarks upon each play.
Author: Plautus, Titus Maccius.
Publication: London :: Printed for Abel Swalle and T. Child ...,; 1694.
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Scene the First.

This Scene is still but a part of the Prologue; and tho' it be a great Fault to confound the Spectators Concerns with the Theatral-Action, and such as cannot be vindica∣ted; yet at the same time, it ought not to be forgotten, that the Prologue is never any part of the Play, as I ob∣serv'd before.

Pag. 41. l. 3. My Lodgings are i' th' upper Garret.] In superiore •…•…ui habito coenaculo. If this Passage be consider'd as spoken immediately to the Spectators, it is very co∣mical; for whether he be look'd upon as real Iupiter, or as a poor Player and Slave, whose Lodgings were al∣ways in the Garret, it agrees exactly with him. But this is almost lost in our Tongue, even tho' a better Word than Garret were us'd.