ABSTRACT
Extract from the Preface to Tyrannick Love; or The Royal Martyr. A Tragedy (1670): ‘… In what else concerns the Play, I shall be brief; for the faults of the Writing and Contrivance, I leave them to the mercy of the Reader, for I am as little apt to defend my Errors, as to find those of other Poets: Only I observe, that the great Censors of Wit and Poetry, either produce nothing of their own, or what is more ridiculous than any thing they reprehend. Much of ill Nature, and a very little Judgment, go far in finding the mistakes of Writers.
