Parte,  Chap.

 1   I,  TransPre|           he wrote twenty or thirty plays, which he tells us were
 2   I,  TransPre|    disturbance. In other words, his plays were not bad enough to be
 3   I,  TransPre|          him that the merits of his plays would not be recognised
 4   I,  TransPre|           stage the silly, childish plays, the "mirrors of nonsense
 5   I,  TransPre|          class of romance, and some plays which manifestly did not
 6   I,  TransPre|          the playgoers to patronise plays that did not amuse them,
 7   I,       XII|       carols for Christmas Eve, and plays for Corpus Christi, which
 8   I,    XLVIII|            to myself taken from the plays that are acted now-a-days,
 9   I,    XLVIII|           more credit, by producing plays in accordance with the rules
10   I,    XLVIII|           enmity I have against the plays in vogue at the present
11   I,    XLVIII|        another! And even in secular plays they venture to introduce
12   I,    XLVIII|       absurdity and nonsense of the plays we produce. Nor will it
13   I,    XLVIII|            in view when they permit plays to be performed in public
14   I,    XLVIII|           attained by means of good plays than by those that are not
15   I,    XLVIII|            they ought to do; but as plays have become a salable commodity,
16   I,    XLVIII|            be seen by the countless plays that a most fertile wit
17   I,    XLVIII|            they ought. Others write plays with such heedlessness that,
18   I,    XLVIII|          the capital to examine all plays before they were acted,
19   I,    XLVIII|             take care to send their plays to the capital, and could
20   I,    XLVIII|             the matter; and so good plays would be produced and the
21   I,        LI| accompaniment of a rebeck, which he plays admirably, he sings his
22   I,       LII|          sending Your Excellency my plays, that had appeared in print
23  II,        XI|          woman, the manager's wife, plays the queen, this one the
24  II,       XII|     personages were introduced? One plays the villain, another the
25  II,       XIX|           magic, sings like a lark, plays the guitar so as to make
26  II,       XIX|          might conveniently see the plays and dances that were to
27  II,       XXI|            to behold the dances and plays; but at the moment of their
28  II,      XLIX|        javelin games, and of acting plays, I asked my brother, who