The Best Plays of the Old Dramatists.
Reading edition
THOMAS OTWAY
WITH AN INTRODUCTION AND NOTES,
BY
The Hon. Roden Noel.
"I lie and dream of your full Mermaid wine."—Beaumont.
UNEXPURGATED EDITION.
LONDON:
VIZETELLY & CO., 16, HENRIETTA STREET,
COVENT GARDEN.
1888.
"What things have we seen Done at the Mermaid! heard words that have been So nimble, and so full of subtle flame, As if that every one from whence they came Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest, And had resolved to live a fool the rest Of his dull life."
Master Francis Beaumont to Ben Jonson.
"Souls of Poets dead and gone, What Elysium have ye known, Happy field or mossy cavern, Choicer than the Mermaid Tavern?"
Keats.
