Excerpt from The Plays of Beaumont and Fletcher

"Crown'd with sacred bays

And flatt'ring ivy, two recite their plays,

Beaumont and Fletcher, swans, to whom all ears

Listen while they, like sirens in their spheres,

Sing their Evadne." Robert Herrick.

"You may here," says Shirley in his preface to the 1647 folio edition of Beaumont and Fletcher, "find passions raised to that excellent pitch, and by such insinuating degrees, that you shall not choose but consent, and go along with them, finding yourself at last grown insensibly the very same person you read; and then stand admiring the subtile tracks of your engagement.

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