 | John Ford - English drama - 1811 - 522 pages
...This law we kept in our presentment now, Not to take freedom more than we allow ; What may be here thought a 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. THE BROKEN... | |
 | English drama - 1811 - 718 pages
...This law we kept in our presentment now, Not to take freedom more than we allow ; What may be here t the blackest May be washed white again. Pen. Never. Pet. Your leave, si troth : In which, if words have cloath'd the subject right, You may partake a pity with delight. *... | |
 | John Ford - Dramatists, English - 1827 - 712 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: Jn which, if words have cloth'd the subject right, You may partake a pity, with This Prologue has been... | |
 | John Ford - Dramatists, English - 1827 - 682 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... | |
 | John Ford - 1831 - 644 pages
...necessary to trouble the reader with the names of other dramas attributed to our poet by Chalmers and Reed. audience that the story was a borrowed one, and that...French or Italian collection of tales. But, whatever may be the groundwdrk, it must, after all, be admitted that the story derives its main claim on our... | |
 | John Ford - 1831 - 396 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 you have clothed the subject right, You may partake a pity with delight. This Prologue... | |
 | Philip Massinger, John Ford - English drama - 1840 - 758 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. ACT I. SCENE... | |
 | Philip Massinger, John Ford - English drama - 1840 - 768 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. ACT I. SCENE... | |
 | John Ford - 1869 - 406 pages
...is not known. Ford seems to have felt some alarm at the deep tragedy which he was about to develop ; and he therefore takes an early opportunity, in the...French or Italian collection of tales. But whatever may be the groundwork, it must, after all, be admitted that the story derives its main claim on our... | |
 | Walter William Skeat - English language - 1873 - 146 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 (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. 
