Francis Beaumont: Dramatist A Portrait, with Some Account of His Circle, Elizabethan and Jacobean, And of His Association with John Fletcher

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Labours, especially of that full and haightened stile of Maister _Chapman_: The labour'd and understanding workes of maister _Jonson_: The no lesse worthy composures of the both worthily excellent Maister _Beamont_ and Maister _Fletcher_: And lastly (without wrong last to be named), the right happy and copious industry of M. _Shake-speare_, M. _Decker_, and M. _Heywood_, wishing what I write may be read by their light: Protesting that, in the strength of mine owne judgement, I know them so worthy, that though I rest silent in my owne worke, yet to most of theirs I dare (without flattery) fix that of _Martiall--non norunt, Haec monumenta mori_."

FOOTNOTES:

[76] Wallace, _New Shakespeare Discoveries, Harper's Maga._, March, 1910.

[77] For these and other reminiscences of Shakespeare, see Alden's edition of Beaumont (_Belles Lettres Series_), XVI; Macaulay's _Beaumont_; Leonhardt in _Anglia_, VIII, 424; Oliphant in _Engl. Studien_, XIV, 53-94, Koeppel's _Quellen-studien_ in _Muenchener Beitraege_, XI.

[78] Wallace, _New Shakespeare Discoveries_ (_Harper's Maga._, March, 1910).

[79] See the _Greenstreet Papers_, in Fleay, _Hist. Stage_, 239, 250.

[80] _An Essay of Dramatick Poesie._