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<TITLE THE DUTCH COURTEZAN.>
<SN PROLOGUE>
SLIGHT HASTIE LABOURS IN THIS EASIE PLAY,
PRESENT NOT WHAT YOU WOULD, BUT WHAT WE MAY:
FOR THIS VOUCHSAFE TO KNOW THE ONELY END
OF OUR NOW STUDIE IS, NOT TO OFFEND.
YET THINKE NOT, BUT LIKE OTHERS RAILE WE COULD,
(BEST ART PRESENTS, NOT WHAT IT CAN, BUT SHOULD)
AND IF OUR PEN IN THIS SEEME OVER SLIGHT,
WE STRIVE NOT TO INSTRUCT, BUT TO DELIGHT,
AS FOR SOME FEW, WE KNOW OF PURPOSE HERE
TO TAXE, AND SCOWT:KNOW FIRME ART CANNOT FEARE
VAINE RAGE:ONELY THE HIGHEST GRACE WE PRAY
IS, YOU'LE NOT TAXE, UNTILL YOU JUDGE OUR PLAY.
THINKE AND THEN SPEAKE:TIS RASHNESSE, AND NOT WIT
TO SPEAKE WHAT IS IN PASSION, AND NOT IUDGEMENT FIT:
SIT THEN, WITH FAIRE EXSPECTANCE, AND SURVAY
NOTHING BUT PASSIONATE MAN IN HIS SLIGHT PLAY,
WHO HATH THIS ONELY ILL:TO SOME DEEM'D WORST,
A MODEST DIFFIDENCE,AND SELFE MISTRUST.
<SN FABULAE ARGUMENTUM>
THE DIFFERENCE BETWIXT THE LOVE OF A CURTEZAN,AND A WIFE,IS THE FULL
SCOPE OF THE PLAY,WHICH INTERMIXED WITH THE DECEITS OF A . . .
