The loyal subject
| dc.contributor | Unknown |
| dc.contributor.author | Fletcher, John, 1579-1625 |
| dc.contributor.author | Beaumont, Francis, 1584-1616 |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2018-07-27 |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2022-08-21T16:26:19Z |
| dc.date.available | 2022-08-21T16:26:19Z |
| dc.date.created | 1619 |
| dc.date.issued | 1976-01-01 |
| dc.identifier | ota:0691 |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14106/0691 |
| dc.description.abstract | Resource deposited with the Oxford Text Archive. |
| dc.format.extent | Text data (1 file : ca. 184 KB) |
| dc.format.medium | Digital bitstream |
| dc.language | English |
| dc.language.iso | eng |
| dc.publisher | University of Oxford |
| dc.relation.ispartof | Oxford Text Archive Legacy Collection |
| dc.rights | Distributed by the University of Oxford under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. |
| dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ |
| dc.rights.label | PUB |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Plays -- England -- 17th century |
| dc.title | The loyal subject |
| dc.type | Text |
| has.files | yes |
| branding | Oxford Text Archive |
| files.size | 189113 |
| files.count | 1 |
| otaterms.date.range | 1600-1699 |
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<T The Loyal Subject>+ <I * The Loyal Subject>+ <Z by John Fletcher.>+ <Z Text from "The Dramatic Works in the Beaumont and Fletcher Canon,">+ <Z Vol. V, ed. Bowers (Cambridge, 1982).>+ <I Pro><A P><S ->+ <P 158><L 1>+ <N 1> <D Prologue.> <N 2> We need not noble Gentlemen to invite <N 3> Attention, preinstruct you who did write <N 4> This worthy Story, being confident <N 5> The mirth joyn'd with grave matter, and Intent <N 6> To yeild the hearers profit, with delight, <N 7> Will speake the maker: and to do him right, <N 8> Would aske a Genius like to his; the age <N 9> Mourning his losse, and our now widdowed stage <N 10> In vaine lamenting. I could adde, so far <N 11> Behind him the most moderne writers are, <N 12> That when they would commend him, their best praise <N 13> Ruins the buildings which they strive to raise, <N 14> To his best memory: so much a friend <N 15> Presumes to write, secure 'twill not offend <N 16> The living that are modest, with the rest <N 17 . . .
