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Our Poets make us laugh at Tragœdy,
And with their Comoedies they make us cry.

— George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham The Rehearsal (1671)

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The world is made up, for the most part, of fools and knaves, both irreconcileable foes to truth.

A mans fame and hayre grow most after death, and are both equally uselesse.

What a Devil is the Plot good for, but to bring in fine things?

The Rehearsal (1671)

Ay, now the Plot thickens very much upon us.

The Rehearsal (1671)

There are few have Dana's fortune, to have God and gold togather.

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