EPILOGUE.

To be too confident, is as unjust
In any work, as too much to distrust;
Who from the laws of study have not swerv'd,
Know begg'd applauses never were deserv'd.
We must submit to censure: so doth he,
Whose hours begot this issue; yet, being free
For his part, if he have not pleas'd you, then
In this kind he'll not trouble you again *.

* This Epilogue is remarkably independent, and perfectly agrees with the character given of our author in the lines quoted in the introduction from Langbaine. We have also here another evident mark of the success of his pieces, for he furnished the stage, after this, with numerous plays. Had the audience been whimsical, and refused the applause due to this admirable drama, we should perhaps never have possessed the Broken Heart, Perkin Warbeck, &c. &c.

THE BROKEN HEART.

THE BROKEN HEART.

THIS tragedy bears the following title in the old copy: "The Broken Heart. A tragedy. Acted by the King's Majestie's servants, at the Private House in the Black Frier's. Fide Honor.

London: Printed by J. B. for Hugh Beeston, and are to be sold at his shop, neare the Castle in Corne-hill. 1633." Like most of our author's productions, it has never been reprinted. Fide Honor, as has been observed in the introduction, is a perfect anagram of John Ford. There is nothing which can point out to us whether this play, or Love's Sacrifice, should precede in point of chronological arrangement, both bearing one date in the old quartos.