EPILOGUE.

Here has appear'd, though in a several fashion,
The threats of majesty; the strength of passion;
Hopes of an empire; change of fortunes; all
What can to theatres of greatness fall,

Proving their weak foundations. Who will please,
Amongst such several sights, to censure these
No birth abortive, nor a bastard-brood,
(Shame to a parentage, or fosterhood),
May warrant, by their loves, all just excuses,
And often find a welcome to the muses.

THE

FANCIES, CHASTE AND NOBLE.

THE FANCIES, CHASTE AND NOBLE.

THIS Comedy was printed in quarto in the year 1638, with the following title: "The Fancies, Chast and Noble: Presented by the Queenes Majesties Servants, at the Phoenix in DruryLane. Fide Honor. London, printed by E. P. for Henry Seile, and are to be sold at his shop, at the Tyger's Head in Fleet Street, over against Saint Dunstan's Church." It has a copy of verses by Edward Greenfield prefixed, for which see the First Volume. There is no enumeration of the Dramatis Persona. The play has, like most of our author's, never been reprinted, and seems to have attracted very little notice hitherto.