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Err. _ 4. 3. 51. The expression is common
throughout the literature of the period.

=3. 5. 43 But to be seene to rise, and goe away. = Cf.
Dekker, _Guls Horne-booke_, _Non-dram. Wks. _ 2. 253: 'Now sir,
if the writer be a fellow that hath either epigrammd you, or
hath had a flirt at your mistris, . . .
you shall disgrace him
worse then by tossing him in a blancket . . . if, in the middle of
his play, . . . you rise with a screwd and discontented face from
your stoole to be gone: no matter whether the Scenes be good or
no; the better they are the worse do you distast them. '

=3. 5. 45, 6 But say, that he be one=,
Wi' not be aw'd! but laugh at you=. In the Prologue to Massinger's
_Guardian_ we find:

--nor dares he profess that when
The critics laugh, he'll laugh at them agen.
(Strange self-love in a writer! )

Gifford says of this passage: 'This Prologue contains many sarcastick
allusions to Old Ben, who produced, about this time, his _Tale of a
Tub_, and his _Magnetic Lady_, pieces which failed of success, and
which, with his usual arrogance, (_strange self-love in a writer! _)
he attributed to a want of taste in the audience. '--Massinger's
(_Wks.