Excerpt from The Works of Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, Vol. 2 I have not concerned myself With passages in the Second Folio in prose which have since been printed as verse. On the Whole I agree with a recent critic Who characterises as 'vexatious' the 'later practice of printing much manifest prose as Verse, each post seventeenth century editor apparently making it a point of honour to discover metre Where no one had found it before, and Where no one With an ear can find it now.' 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.