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Works : Reprinted From The Original Editions With Notes, And Some Account Of His Life And Writings: Vol. II.
Works Reprinted From The Original Editions With Notes And Some Account Of His Life And Writings Vol II Author:John Marston THE WORKS JOHN MARSTON. REPRINTED FROM THE ORIGINAL EDITION S. WITH NOTES, AND SOME ACCOUNT OF HIS LIFE AND WRITINGS. - IN THREE VOLUMES. VOL. 11. - 1856. - PARASITASTER T H E F A W N E . AS IT HATH BEEN DIVERS TTMES PRESENTED at the Blaclce Friars, by the Children of the Queenes Maiesties Revels, and since at Powles. Written BY IOHN MARSTON, An... more »d now corrected of many faults, which, by reason of the Authors absence, were let slip in the first edition. At London Printed by T. P. for W. C. 16 06. TO MY EQUALL READER. H AV E ever more endevoured to know my be than to be knowne of others and rather to be unpartially beloved of all, than factiously to bee admired of a few yet so powerfully have I been enticed with the delights of poetry, and l-must ingeniously confesse above better desert so fortunate in these stage-pleasings, that let my resolutions be never SO fixed to call mine eyes into my selfe I much feare that most lamentable death of him, Qui nimis notus omnibus, Tgnotus moritur sibi.-Seneca. 5 But since the over-vehement pursute of these deEights hath Mn the sicknesse of my youth, and now is growne to be the aice of my f i m e r age - . Pince, to satisfe others, I neglect my selfe-let it be the r t e soife 2 12y perzlser rather to pitie nay selfeilinrlri7ty labours, than to malice me and let him be pleasecl to be my reader, and not m ia terpreter, sirce I roould faine reserce that oflce in n2y owne hnwds, it being guy duyly prager - iib it L jocoruln nostrorwn simplicitate malignus interpres. Xartial. If a72y shall wonder why I print a Comedie, wltose life rests 7auch in the actors voice, let such kuow tl cit i t cannot acoide publishing let it there fon s t u l r l with good excuse that 1 haw baen nzy oro rc sottc r 021t. r n cy clcsire to zozderstand the scope of my I , i to i t l ut7 th e sa71ze limnits u i icld J cnnl gizqes lo his Satyres --c c i icq ii f d ig lint liomines, votum, timor, ira, roluptns, iudis, di-curs ts, n . bsu f i arra, lgo libelli est.--Jz vennl TO THE RZADER. 5 As for the factious malice and studied detractions of some few that tread in the same path with me, let all know I most easily neglect them, and carelesly slumbring to their vitious endevours smile hartily at their selfe-hurting basenesse. My bosome friend, good Epictetus, makes me easily to contemne all such mens malice since other mew tongues are not within my teeth, why should I hope to yoverne them For mine owne interest for once, let this be printed, that of men of my owne addiction I love most, pitie some, hate none for let mee truely say it, I once only loved my selfe, for loving them, and surely I shall ever rest so constant to nzy Jirst affection, that let their un gentle combinings, discurteous whisperings, nevey so treacherously labour to undermine my unfenced . reputation, I shalZ as long as I have being love the least of their graces, and only pitie the greatest of their vices. And now, to kill envie, know you, that afect to be the onely minion of Phebus, I am not so blush G TO THE READER. lesly ambitious as to hope to gaine any the least supreame eminencie amonge you. I affect not onely the Euge tuum et Bell6 -tis not my fashion to thinke no writer vertuously conjident that is not swellingly impudent nor doe I labour to bee held the onely spirit whose poems may bee thought worthy to be kept in cedar chests -c c Heliconidasque Pallidamque Pyrenen Illis relinquo quorum imagines lambunt Hederze sequacee. . . . . . . 99 - Perseus. He that pursues fame shall, for mee, without any , ivall, have breath ynough...« less