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<TITLE THE TRAGEDY OF PAVLO GIORDANO VRSINI DUKE OF BRACHIANO,AND VITTORIA COROMBONA.> <SN TO THE READER.> IN PUBLISHING THIS TRAGEDY,I DO BUT CHALLENGE TO MY SELFE THAT LIBERTY, WHICH OTHER MEN HAUE TANE BEFORE MEE; NOT THAT I AFFECT PRAISE BY IT,FOR,NOS HAEC NOUIMUS ESSE NIHIL,ONELY SINCE IT WAS ACTED,IN SO DULL A TIME OF WINTER,PRESENTED IN SO OPEN AND BLACKE A THEATER, THAT IT WANTED (THAT WHICH IS THE ONELY GRACE AND SETTING OUT OF A TRAGEDY)A FULL AND VNDERSTANDING AUDITORY:AND THAT SINCE THAT TIME I HAUE NOTED,MOST OF THE PEOPLE THAT COME TO THAT PLAY-HOUSE,RESEMBLE THOSE IGNORANT ASSES (WHO VISITING STATIONERS SHOPPES THEIR VSE IS NOT TO INQUIRE FOR GOOD BOOKES,BUT NEW BOOKES)I PRESENT IT TO THE GENERALL VEIW WITH THIS CONFIDENCE. NEC RHONCOS METUES,MALIGNIORUM, NEC SCOMBRIS TUNICAS,DABIS MOLESTAS. IF IT BE OBIECTED THIS IS NO TRUE DRAMMATICKE POEM,I SHALL EASILY CONFESSE IT,NON POTES IN NUGAS DICERE PLURA MEAS:IPSE EGO QUAM DIXI,WILLINGLY,AND NOT IGNORANTLY,IN THIS KIND . . .
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<TITLE THE WHITE DIVEL, OR, THE TRAGEDY OF PAULO GIORDANO URSINI, DUKE OF BRACHIANO, WITH THE LIFE AND DEATH OF VITTORIA COROMBONA, THE FAMOUS VENETIAN CURTIZAN.> WRITTEN BY IOHN WEBSTER. NON INFERIORA SECUTUS. LONDON. TO THE READER. IN PUBLISHING THIS TRAGEDY, I DO BUT CHALLENGE TO MY SELFE THAT LIBERTY, WHICH OTHER MEN HAVE TANE BEFORE MEE; NOT THAT I AFFECT PRAISE BY IT, FOR, NOS HAEC NOVIMUS ESSE NIHIL, ONELY SINCE IT WAS ACTED IN SO DULL A TIME OF WINTER, PRESENTED IN SO OPEN AND BLACKE A THEATER, THAT IT WANTED (THAT WHICH IS THE ONELY GRACE AND SETTING OUT OF A TRAGEDY) A FULL AND UNDERSTANDING AUDITORY: AND THAT SINCE THAT TIME I HAVE NOTED, MOST OF THE PEOPLE THAT COME TO THAT PLAY- HOUSE, RESEMBLE THOSE IGNORANT ASSES (WHO VISITING STATIONERS SHOPPES THEIR USE IS NOT TO INQUIRE FOR GOOD BOOKES, BUT NEW BOOKES) I PRESENT IT TO THE GENERALL VEIW WITH THIS CONFIDENCE. NEC RHONCOS METUES, MALIGNIORUM, NEC SCOMBRIS TUNICAS, DABIS MOLESTAS. IF IT BE OBJECTED THIS IS NO TRUE DRAM . . .
