 | Thomas Nadauld Brushfield - 1893 - 134 pages
...transaction, (v. 296.) 138. Evidently founded on fact, as in the prologue we read : " What may be here thought Fiction, when time's youth Wanted some riper years, was known a Truth." 139. "It was reprinted in 1714, when the movements of the Pretender's adherents in Scotland were attracting... | |
 | John Ford - 1894 - 132 pages
...law we keep in our presentment now, Not to take freedom more than we allow ; What may be here thought Fiction, when Time's youth Wanted some riper years, was known a Truth : 16 In which, if words have clothed the subject right, You may partake a pity with delight. DRAMATIS... | |
 | John Ford - 1906 - 143 pages
...law we keep in our presentment now, Not to take freedom more than we allow ; What may be here thought Fiction, when time's youth Wanted some riper years, was known A Truth : In which, if words have clothed the subject right, You may partake a pity, with delight. • THE... | |
 | John Ford - Drama - 1986 - 356 pages
...Heart has been discovered, despite the tantalising statement in the Prologue that 'What may be here thought a fiction, when time's youth / Wanted some riper years, was known a truth' (15-16). In 668 BC the Spartans celebrated a victory over Messenia of the kind which brings Ithocles... | |
 | John Ford - Dramatists, English - 1827 - 616 pages
...law we keep in our presentment now, Not to take freedom more than we allow ; What may be here thought FICTION, when time's youth Wanted some riper years, was known A TRUTH : In which, if words have cloth'd the subject right, You may partake a pity, with delight. This Prologue... | |
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What may be here thought FICTION, when time's youth Wanted some riper years, was known A TRUTH : In which, if words have cloth'd the subject right, You may partake a pity, with delight. 
