A New Way to Pay Old Debts
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A New Way to Pay Old Debts

  1. 128 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

A New Way to Pay Old Debts

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New Mermaids are modern spelling, fully-annotated editions of important English plays. Each volume includes a critical introduction, biography of the author, discussions of dates and sources, textual details, a bibliography and information about the staging of the play.

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Information

Publisher
Methuen Drama
Year
2014
Print ISBN
9780713637939
eBook ISBN
9781408144527
Edition
1
Subtopic
Drama
Image
To the Right Honourable
ROBERT
EARL OF CAERNARVON,
Master Falconer of England
My Good Lord,
Pardon I beseech you my boldness, in presuming to shelter this comedy under the wings of your Lordship’s favour, and protection. I am not ignorant (having never yet deserv’d you in my service) that it cannot but meet with a severe construction, if in the clemency of your noble disposition, you fashion not a better defence for me, than I can fancy for myself. All I can allege is, that divers Italian Princes, and lords of eminent rank in England, have not disdain’d to receive, and read poems of this nature, nor am I wholly lost in my hopes, but that your Honour (who have ever expressed yourself a favourer, and friend to the Muses) may vouchsafe, in your gracious acceptance of this trifle, to give me encouragement, to present you with some labour’d work, and of a higher strain hereafter. I was born a devoted servant, to the thrice noble family of your incomparable Lady, and am most ambitious, but with a becoming distance, to be known to your Lordship, which if you please to admit, I shall embrace it as a bounty, that while I live shall oblige me to acknowledge you for my noble patron, and profess myself to be
Your Honour’s true servant
Phillip Massinger.
TO THE INGENIOUS AUTHOR MASTER PHILIP MASSINGER
ON HIS COMEDY
called A New Way to Pay Old Debts
’Tis a rare charity, and thou couldst not
So proper to the time have found a plot:
Yet whilst you teach to pay, you lend: the age
We wret...

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title page
  3. Contents
  4. Acknowledgements
  5. Introduction
  6. Note on the Text
  7. Further Reading
  8. A New Way to Pay Old Debts
  9. Notes
  10. Poem Notes
  11. Footnotes
  12. Imprint Page