This sprightlyPosthume, whom our pious fearBewail'd as if it anabortivewere(And out of sense of that, nogen'rous breastBut a forsaken lover's grief exprest)Hath forc'd his way thorough thepangsofFate,And in hisinfancy'satmans estate.Thus thatFam'd floodthat'splung'dinto a graveFor many leagues, at lengthexaltshis wave;Leapes from his Sepulcher, and proudly slidesThrough's banks in deeper, more expanded tides;Till to his watry Center he hath gotBy wrigling twines, subtile asFLETCHER'S plot.That 'tis a sacred birth from hence we know,It doth byburiallmoregloriousgrow:For Saints by persecution thrive; and noneIs Martyr'd, but'sopprestinto athrone.There reign he to Time's end! while we from this,Doe calculate hisApotheosis.James Ramsey.
This sprightlyPosthume, whom our pious fearBewail'd as if it anabortivewere(And out of sense of that, nogen'rous breastBut a forsaken lover's grief exprest)Hath forc'd his way thorough thepangsofFate,And in hisinfancy'satmans estate.Thus thatFam'd floodthat'splung'dinto a graveFor many leagues, at lengthexaltshis wave;Leapes from his Sepulcher, and proudly slidesThrough's banks in deeper, more expanded tides;Till to his watry Center he hath gotBy wrigling twines, subtile asFLETCHER'S plot.That 'tis a sacred birth from hence we know,It doth byburiallmoregloriousgrow:For Saints by persecution thrive; and noneIs Martyr'd, but'sopprestinto athrone.There reign he to Time's end! while we from this,Doe calculate hisApotheosis.James Ramsey.
This sprightlyPosthume, whom our pious fearBewail'd as if it anabortivewere(And out of sense of that, nogen'rous breastBut a forsaken lover's grief exprest)Hath forc'd his way thorough thepangsofFate,And in hisinfancy'satmans estate.Thus thatFam'd floodthat'splung'dinto a graveFor many leagues, at lengthexaltshis wave;Leapes from his Sepulcher, and proudly slidesThrough's banks in deeper, more expanded tides;Till to his watry Center he hath gotBy wrigling twines, subtile asFLETCHER'S plot.That 'tis a sacred birth from hence we know,It doth byburiallmoregloriousgrow:For Saints by persecution thrive; and noneIs Martyr'd, but'sopprestinto athrone.There reign he to Time's end! while we from this,Doe calculate hisApotheosis.
James Ramsey.
Instead of the Actors' names being given in a list separately, they follow thenames and descriptions of the characters, thus:
De-Gard ... Acted by Mr.Robert Benfield.La-Castre ... Acted by Mr.Richard Robinson.Mirabell ... Incomparably Acted by Mr.Joseph Taylor.Pinac ... Admirably well Acted by Mr.Thomas Pollard.Belleur ... Most naturally Acted by Mr.John Lowin.Nantolet ... Acted by Mr.William Penn.Lugier ... Acted by Mr.Hilliard Swanston.Oriana ... Acted by Mr.Steph. Hammerton.Rosalura } ... {William Trigg.Lillia-Bianca } ... {Sander Gough.Petella ... Their servant Mr.Shanck.A young Factor by Mr.John Hony-man.
End of Vol. IV.
CAMBRIDGE: PRINTED BY JOHN CLAY, M.A. AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS.
TRANSCRIBER'S NOTESAdded Table of Contents.Silently corrected simple spelling, grammar, and typographical errors.Retained anachronistic and non-standard spellings as printed.
Added Table of Contents.
Silently corrected simple spelling, grammar, and typographical errors.
Retained anachronistic and non-standard spellings as printed.