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. 1821 Excerpt: ...(for the states of their wits healths) that will not praise it. Vale. PROLOGUE.1 In Troy, there lies the scene. From isles of Greece The princes orgulousJ, their high blood chaf'd, 1 I cannot regard this Prologue (which indeed is wanting in the quarto editions) as the work ofShakspeare; and perhaps thedrama before us ...
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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. 1821 Excerpt: ...(for the states of their wits healths) that will not praise it. Vale. PROLOGUE.1 In Troy, there lies the scene. From isles of Greece The princes orgulousJ, their high blood chaf'd, 1 I cannot regard this Prologue (which indeed is wanting in the quarto editions) as the work ofShakspeare; and perhaps thedrama before us was not entirely of his construction. It appears to have been unknown to his associates, Hemings and Condell, till after the first folio was almost printed off. On this subject, indeed, (as I learn from Mr. Malone's extracts from Henslowe's MS.) there seems to have been a play anterior to the present one. "April 7, 1599. Lent unto Thomas Downton to lende unto Mr. Deckers, and harey cheattel, in earnest of ther boocke called Troyeles and Creassedaye, the some of iii lb." "Lent unto harey cheattell, and Mr. Dickers, Henry Chettle and master Deckar in pte of payment of their booke called Troyelles & Cresseda, the 16 of Aprell, 1599, xxs." "Lent unto Mr. Deckers and Mr. Chettel the 26 of maye, 1599, in earnest of a booke called Troylles and Creseda, the some of xxs." Steevens. 1 conceive this prologue to have been written, and the dialogue, in more than one place, interpolated by some Kyd or Marlowe of the time; who may have been paid for altering and amending one of Shakspeare's plays: a very extraordinary instance of our author's negligence, and the managers' taste! Ritson. 2 The princes Orgulous, Orgulous, i. e. proud, disdainful. Orgueilleux, Fr. This word is used in the ancient romance of Richard Cueur de Lyon: "His atyre was orgulous." Again, in Froissart's Chronicle, vol. ii. p. 115, b: "--but they Have to the port of Athens sent their ships, Fraught with the ministers and instruments Of cruel war: ...
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