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 Sixth.

Pag. 120. l. 1. Good Thesprion, get the back way to our House, and help to plead for me.] It is observable that Thesprion appears but once in the whole Play, and that in the beginning. But in this case, our modern Poets wou'd not so soon have lost such a remarkable Character, but have carried it on through the Play; and this, when it dos not confound the Plot, is an excellency of our Stage above the Ancients. Plautus is guilty of this Defect in the more remarkable Character of Arto∣trogus, in his Miles Gloriosus.