Publii Terentii Carthaginiensis Afris poëtae lepidissimi comoediae sex Anglo-Latinae in usum ludi-discipulorum, quo Feliciùs venustatem linguae Latinae ad sermonem quotidianum exercendum assequantur / a Carolo Hoole ... = Six comedies of that excellent poet Publius Terentius, an African of Carthage, in English and Latine : for the use of young scholars, that they may the more readily attain the purity of the Latine tongue for common discourse / by Charles Hoole ...

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Title: Publii Terentii Carthaginiensis Afris poëtae lepidissimi comoediae sex Anglo-Latinae in usum ludi-discipulorum, quo Feliciùs venustatem linguae Latinae ad sermonem quotidianum exercendum assequantur / a Carolo Hoole ... = Six comedies of that excellent poet Publius Terentius, an African of Carthage, in English and Latine : for the use of young scholars, that they may the more readily attain the purity of the Latine tongue for common discourse / by Charles Hoole ...
Author: Terence.
Publication: London :: Printed for the Company of Stationers,; 1663.
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Subject terms: Latin drama (Comedy)
Cite this Item: "Publii Terentii Carthaginiensis Afris poëtae lepidissimi comoediae sex Anglo-Latinae in usum ludi-discipulorum, quo Feliciùs venustatem linguae Latinae ad sermonem quotidianum exercendum assequantur / a Carolo Hoole ... = Six comedies of that excellent poet Publius Terentius, an African of Carthage, in English and Latine : for the use of young scholars, that they may the more readily attain the purity of the Latine tongue for common discourse / by Charles Hoole ..." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A64394.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 30, 2024.

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The Prologue.
WHen first the Poet (Terence) gave his mind to write (Comedies)
He thought it was the onely business he had to look after,
That what Comedies he made might please the people:
But he findeth it to fall out far otherwise;
 [line 5]  For in writing. Prologues he bestoweth his labour amiss,
Not that he may tell one the Plot, but answer the railing termes
Of the cankered old Poet (Luscus Lavinius.)
Now I pray you consider what thing they account as a fault:
Menander made Andria and Perinthia:
 [line 10]  He that knoweth either (Comedy) well, knoweth them both:
They differ not very much in the matter, yet
Are they much unlike in the composition, and manner of speech;
He confesseth he took out of Perinthia, and put into Andria,
Those things which were sitting (for his purpose) and used them as his own.
 [line 15]  These fellows discommend that doing, and reason about it,
Saying, it is not fit that Comedies should be spoyled:
Truly by making themselves so wise, they discover their own ••olly;
Who when they blame him, they find fault also
With Naevius, Plautus, and Ennius, whom this our Poet followeth as his Authours:
 [line 20]  Whose negligence he choseth rather to imitate,
Than the over-clouded diligence of those fellows.
Now henceforth I advise them to be quiet hereafter, and forbear
To give ill language, least they come to hear of their ill doings.
Keep silence, shew your selves impartial, and consider the matter,
 [line 25]  That ye may thorowly understand what hope remaineth; viz.
Whether what Comedies he shall make a new hereafter,
Be worthy to be beheld, or driven off the stage rather by them.