As it is ACTED AT THE Theatre in _Lincoln's-Inn-Fields_, BY His Majesty's Servants.
_Audire est Operæ pretium, procedere recte Qui mæchis non vultis----_ Hor. Sat. 2. l. 1. _----Metuat doti deprensa.----_ Ibid.
L O N D O N: Printed for _Jacob Tonson_, within _Gray's-Inn-Gate_ next _Gray's-Inn-Lane_. 1700.
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For an Englishman there is no single historical work with which it can be so necessary for him to be well and thoroughly acquainted as with Clarendon. SOUTHEY
THE HISTORY OF THE REBELLION and CIVIL WARS IN ENGLAND, Begun in the Year 1641.
With the precedent Passages, and Actions, that contributed thereunto, and the happy End, and Conclusion thereof by the KING's blessed RESTORATION, and RETURN upon the 29^{ th} of _May_, in the Year 1660.
Written by the Right Honourable EDWARD Earl of CLARENDON, Late Lord High Chancellour of _England_, Privy Counsellour in the Reigns of King CHARLES the First and the Second.
_Ne quid Falsi dicere audeat, ne quid Veri non audeat._ Cicero.
_O X F O R D_, Printed at the THEATER, _An. Dom._ MDCCII.
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It is incredible to conceive the effect his writings have had upon the Town; how many thousand follies they have either quite banished or given a very great check to! how much countenance they have added to Virtue and Religion! how many people they have rendered happy, by showing them it was their own fault if they were not so! and lastly how entirely they have convinced our young fops and young fellows of the value and advantages of Learning! He has indeed rescued it out of the hands of pedants, and fools, and discovered the true method of making it amiable and lovely to all mankind. In the dress he gives it, it is a most welcome guest at tea-tables and assemblies, and is relished and caressed by the merchants on the Change. Accordingly, there is not a Lady at Court, nor a Broker in Lombard Street, who is not easily persuaded that Captain _Steele_ is the greatest Scholar and Casuist of any man in England. GAY
THE LUCUBRATIONS OF Isaac Bickerstaff Esq;
[Greek: ou chrê pannychion heudein boulêphoron andra.] Homer.
_L O N D O N_, Printed: And sold by _John Morphew_, near _Stationers-Hall_. MDCCX.