%ISOlat1; %ISOlat2; %ISOnum; %ISOpub; ]> THE / PROLOGUE / TO HIS / MAJESTY / At the first PLAY presented at the Cock-pit in / WHITEHALL; / Being part of that Noble Entertainment which Their MAIESTIES received Novemb. 19. / from his Grace the Duke of ALBEMARLE. Denham, Sir John University of California - Santa Barbara The Early Modern Center English Broadside Ballad Archive (EBBA) Director Patricia Fumerton Associate Director Carl G Stahmer 1660-1660 Early Modern Center, University of California Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 06/27/2014 33344

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R210836 GReatest of Monarchs, welcome to this place / Which Majesty so oft was wont to grace Information in this section of the Source Description refers to the original ballad manuscript. 1: 816 THE / PROLOGUE / TO HIS / MAJESTY / At the first PLAY presented at the Cock-pit in / WHITEHALL; / Being part of that Noble Entertainment which Their MAIESTIES received Novemb. 19. / from his Grace the Duke of ALBEMARLE. THE PROLOGUE TO HIS MAJESTY At the first PLAY presented at the Cock-pit in WHITEHALL; Being part of that Noble Entertainment which Their MAJESTIES received Novemb. 19. from his Grace the Duke of ALBEMARLE. THE PROLOGUE TO HIS MAJESTY At the first PLAY presented at the Cockpit in WHITEHALL; Being part of that Noble Entertainment which Their MAJESTIES received Novemb. 19. from his Grace the Duke of ALBEMARLE. Denham, Sir John 1660-1660 G. Bedell and T. Collins

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GReatest of Monarchs, welcome to this place Which Majesty so oft was wont to grace Before our Exile, to divert the Court, And ballance weighty Cares with harmless sport, This truth we can to our advantage say, They that would have no KING, would have no Play: The Laurel and the Crown together went, Had the same Foes, and the same Banishment: The Ghosts of their great Ancestors they fear'd, Who by the art of conjuring Poets rear'd, Our HARRIES & our EDWARDS long since dead Still on the Stage a march of Glory tread: Those Monuments of Fame (they thought) would stain And teach the People to despise their Reign: Nor durst they look into the Muses Well, Least the cleer Spring their ugliness should tell; Affrighted with the shadow of their Rage, They broke the Mirror of the times, the Stage; The Stage against them still maintain'd the War, When they debauch'd the Pulpit and the Bar. Though to be Hypocrites, be our Praise alone, 'Tis our peculiar boast that we were none.
What er'e they taught, we practis'd what was true, And something we had learn'd of honor too, When by Your Danger, and our Duty prest, We acted in the Field, and not in Jest; Then for the Cause our Tyring-house they sack't, And silenc't us that they alone might act; And (to our shame) most dext'rously they do it, Out-act the Players, and out-ly the Poet; But all the other Arts appear'd so scarce, Ours were the Moral Lectures, theirs the Farse: This spacious Land their Theater became, And they Grave Counsellors, and Lords in Name; Which these Mechanicks Personate so ill That ev'n the Oppressed with contempt they fill, But when the Lyons dreadful skin they took, They roar'd so loud that the whole Forrest shook; The noise kept all the Neighborhood in awe, Who thought 'twas the true Lyon by his Pawe. If feigned Vertue could such Wonders do, What may we not expect from this that's true! But this Great Theme must serve another Age, To fill our Story, and adorne our Stage.
LONDON, Printed for G. Bedell and T. Collins, at the Middle-Temple Gate in Fleet-street. 1660.