If it live in your memory, begin at this line-Let me see, let me see- The rugged Pyrrhus, like th’ Hyrcanian beast- It is not so. ‘Twas Aeneas’ tale to Dido and thereabout of it, especially where he speaks of Priam’s slaughter. I remember, one said there were no sallets in the lines to make the matter savory, nor no matter in the phrase that might indict the author of affectation, but called it an honest method, as wholesome as sweet, and by very much more handsome than fine. But it was-as I received it, and others, whose judgments in such matters cried in the top of mine-an excellent play, well digested in the scenes, set down with as much modesty as cunning. Or, if it was, not above once, for the play, I remember, pleased not the million. I heard thee speak me a speech once, but it was never acted.
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