Representative English Comedies (Volume 3); With Introductory Essays and Notes, an Historical View of Our Earlier Comedy and Other Monographs by Various Writers (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1914 Excerpt: ... THE R O Y A L L MASTER As it was A ted in the new Theater in Dublin: AND Before the Right Honorable the Lord Deputie of Ireland, in the Caftle. Written by IAMES SHIRLEY.-Fas extera querere regna VIGNETTE LON DON Printed by T. Cotes, and are to be fold by John Crookc and Richard Serger, at the Grayhound or Pauls Church-yard 1638. DEDICATION. To the Right Honourable George Earl of Kildare, Baron of Ophalie, and Premier Earl of the Kingdom of Ireland.1 My Lord, It was my happiness, being a stranger in this kingdom,2 to kiss your lordship's hands, to which your nobleness and my own ambition encouraged me; nor was it without justice to your name, to tender the first-fruits of my observance to your lordship, whom this island acknowledgeth her first active ornament and top-branch of honour. Be pleased now, my most honourable lord, since my affairs in England hasten my departure and prevent my personal attendance, that something of me may be honoured to wait upon you in my absence--this poem. 'Tis new, and never yet personated, but expected with the first, when the English stage shall be recovered from her long silence, and her now languishing scene ' changed into a welcome return of wits and men. And when, by the favour of the winds and sea, I salute my country again, I shall report a story of the Irish honour,4 and hold myself not meanly fortunate to have been written and received The humblest of your lordship's servants JAMES SHIRLEY. 1 George Fitzgerald, sixteenth Earl of Kildare, born 1611; succeeded to peerage in 1620; educated at Christ Church, Oxford; was much under the influence of the Earl of Cork to whom he had been transferred as ward and whose daughter he afterwards married. In 1641 he sided with the leaders of the Protestant party in Ireland, and...