Excerpt from The British Plutarch, Vol. 3 of 6: Containing the Lives of the Most Eminent Statesmen, Patriots, Divines, Warriors, Philosophers, Poets, and Artists, of Great Britain and Ireland, From the Accession of Henry VIII. To the Present Time, Including, a Complete History of England From That AEra Sir Philip Sidney gives the following eharae'ter of this play Gorboduc is full of fiatelvy fpeeches and well-founding phrafes, climbing to the height of Seneca's 11e and as full of notable morality, which it doth moft delightfully teach, and thereby obtains the very end of poetry. We may add, that Whoever reads it with attention, and confiders the infant flare of Englifh poetry at the time it was written (fome years before the appearance of Shakefpeare), mull; allow, that it merited the pains taken by Pope and Spence to retrieve it from obli vion, which they effected, by recommending it to the manager of D'rury-lane theatre in 1736, where it had a great run and the fame year Mr.' Spence publithed a new edition, which is the bett. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.