Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: INDUCTION. Enter Comedy, joyfully, with a Qarlawt of Bays onjjy.. head. Why so; thus do I hope to please: Music revives, and mirth is tolerable; Comedy, play thy part and please; Make merry them that come to joy with thee. Joy then, good gentles; I hope to make you laugh. Sound forth Bellona's silver-tuned strings; Time fits us well, the day and place is ours. f' arms naked, besmeared with blood. Envy. Nay, stay, you minion, stay; there lies a block! What, all on mirth? I'll interrupt your tale, And mix your music with a tragic end. 10 Com. What monstrous ugly hag is this, That dares control the pleasures of our will? Vaunt, churlish cur, besmear'd with gory blood, That seemst to check the blossoms of delight, And stifle the sound of sweet Bellona's breath ; 1 5 Blush, monster, blush, and post away with shame, That seekest disturbance of a goddess' deeds. Envy. Post hence thyself, thou counterchecking trull; I will possess this habit, spite of thee, And gain the glory of thy wished sport. 20 Induction. i. El:, thinking the Induction to have begun with a regular blank verse, proposes : Why, even so. — 3. Supposing Come to have dropped before Comedy, we should have a regular octosyllabic. — Coll. conjectures: play thy part with ease. — 6. Bellona, cp. El.'s Notes. — 7. C are ours. — 8. A Nay, stay, minion; there; C Stay, stay; minion there ; HM Nay, stay minion, stay, there; you added by El. — 14. A blossoms; CHM blossom. — 15. AH stifle; C stiff e ; M still. — lj.HM.name; Wag. proposes fame. — 2O. HM this wished. — Qq port ; El. sport. I'll thunder music shall appal the nymphs, And make them shiver their clattering strings, Flying for succour to their dankish caves. SoundJ)rums within, and crj± Stalu-Slab Hark, hearken, thou shalt hear a noi...