The mulberry-garden a comedy : as it is acted by His Majestie's servants at the Theatre-Royal / written by the Honourable Sir Charles Sidley.
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- The mulberry-garden a comedy : as it is acted by His Majestie's servants at the Theatre-Royal / written by the Honourable Sir Charles Sidley.
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- Sedley, Charles, Sir, 1639?-1701.
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- London :: Printed for H. Herringman ...,
- 1668.
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"The mulberry-garden a comedy : as it is acted by His Majestie's servants at the Theatre-Royal / written by the Honourable Sir Charles Sidley." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A59056.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 6, 2025.
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TO HER GRACE THE DUTCHESSE OF RICHMOND and LENOX.
Madam,
TIs an unquestion'd Priviledge we Authors have of troubling whomsoever we please with an Epistle Dedicatory, as we call it, when we print a Play; Kings and Princes have never been able to exempt either themselves or their Favourites from our Persecution. I think your Grace (for a Person of so great Eminence, Beauty, Indulgence to Wit, and other Ad∣vantages that mark you out to suffer under Addresses of this Nature) has scap't very well hitherto. For I do not remem∣ber your Name yet made a Sanctuary to any of these Crimi∣nals: But, Madam, your time is come, and you must bear it patiently. All the favour I can shew you, is that of a good Executioner, which is not to prolong your pain. You see, Madam, here the unhappiness of being born in our time, in which to that Vertue and Perfection▪ the Greeks and Ro∣mans would have given Temples 〈◊〉〈◊〉, the highest
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thing we dare dedicate, is a Play or ••ame such Tri••••es. 〈◊〉〈◊〉 that I now offer to your Grace, you were so kind to when it was in loose Sheets, that by degrees you have train'd it up to the confidence of appearing in Print before you: And I hope you will find it no hard matter to pardon a Presumption you have your self been accessory to, especially in one that is in∣tirely,
MADAM,
Your Graces Devoted and Obedient Servant, CHARLES SIDLEY.