Note 35 — ANTONIO AND MELLIDA.
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We have an Induction before What you Will and The Malcontent. Ben Jonson was particularly fond of introducing preliminary dialogues, which are usually so tedious that we are fain to exclaim with Cordatus (in the Induction to Every Man out of his Humour), “I would they would begin once; this protraction is able to sour the best settled patience in the theatre.”