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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A36592	All for love, or, The world well lost a tragedy, as it is acted at the Theatre-Royal, and written in imitation of Shakespeare's stile / written by Mr. Dryden.	Dryden, John, 1631-1700.; Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Antony and Cleopatra.	1692 (1692)	Wing D2230; ESTC R8598	57,629	88

ALL for LOVE OR THE World well Lost. A TRAGEDY As it is Acted at the THEATRE-ROYAL AND Written in Imitation of Shakespeare's Stile Written by Mr. Dryden Facile est verbum aliquod ardens ut ita dicam notare Idque restinctis animorum incendiis irridere Cicero In the SAVOY Printed for H. Herringman and Sold by R. Bently J. Tonson F. Saunders and T. Bennet 1692. To the Right Honourable THOMAS Earl of Danby Viscount Latimer and Baron OSBORNE of Kiveton in York-shire Lord High Treasurer of England One of His Majesties most Honourable Privy Council and Knight of the Most Noble Order of the Garter c. My LORD THE Gratitude of Poets is so troublesome a Virtue to Great Men that you are often in danger of your own Benefits For you are threaten'd with some Epistle and not suffer'd to do Good in quiet or to compound for their Silence whom you have Oblig'd Yet I Confess I neither am nor ought to be surpriz'd at this Indulgence For your Lordship has the same Right to Favour Poetry which the Great and Noble have ever had Carmen amat quisquis carmine digna gerit There is somewhat of a tye in Nature betwixt those who are Born for Worthy Actions and those who can transmit them to Posterity And though ours be much the inferiour part it comes at least within the Verge of Alliance nor are we unprofitable Members of the Common-wealth when we animate others to those Virtues which we Copy and Describe from you 'T is indeed their Interest who endeavour the Subversion of Governments to discourage Poets and Historians for the best which can happen to them is to be forgotten But such who under KINGS are the Fathers of their Country and by a Just and Prudent ordering of Affairs preserve it have the same Reason to Cherish the Chroniclers of their Actions as they have to lay up in safety the Deeds and Evi●… of their Estates For such Records are their undoubted Titles to the Love and Reverence of After-Ages Your Lordships Administration has already taken up a considerable part of the English Annals and many of its most happy Years are owing to it His MAJESTY the most knowing Judge of Men and the best Master has acknowledg'd the Ease and Benefit he Receives in the Incomes of His Treasury which you found not only Disorder'd but Exhausted All Things were in the Confusion of a Chaos without Form or Method if not reduc'd beyond it even to Annihilation So that you had not only to separate the Jarring Elements but if that boldness of Expression might be allow'd me to Create them Your Enemies had so Embroil'd the Management of your Office that they look'd on your Advancement as the Instrument of your Ruine And as if the clogging of the Revenue and the Confusion of Accounts which you found in your Entrance were not sufficient they added their own weight of Malice to the Publick Calamity by forestalling the Credit which shou'd Cure it Your Friends on the other side were only capable of Pitying but not of Aiding you No farther Help or Counsel was remaining to you but what was founded on your Self And that indeed was your Security For your Diligence your Constancy and your Prudence wrought more surely within when they were not disturb'd by any outward Motion The highest Virtue is best to be trusted with its Self for Asistance only can be given by a Genius Superiour to that which it Assists And 't is the Noblest kind of Debt when we are only oblig'd to God and Nature This then My Lord is your just Commendation That you have wrought out your Self a way to Glory by those very Means that were design'd for your Destruction You have not only restor'd but advanc'd the Revenues of your Master without Grievance to the Subject And as if that were little yet the Debts of the Exchequer which lay heaviest both on the Crown and on private Persons have by your Conduct been Establish'd in a certainty of Satisfaction An Action so much the more Great and Honourable because the Case was without the ordinary Relief of Laws above the Hopes of the Afflicted and beyond the Narrowness of the Treasury to Redr●…ss had it been manag'd by a less able Hand 'T is certainly the Happiest and most Unenvy'd part of all your Fortune to do Good to many while you do Injury to none To receive at once the Prayers of the Subject and the Praises of the Prince And by the care of your Conduct to give Him Means of Exerting the chiefest if any be the chiefest of His Royal Virtues His distributive Justice to the Deserving and His Bounty and Compassion to the Wanting The Disposition of Princes towards their People cannot better be discover'd than in the choice of their Ministers who like the Animal Spirits betwixt the Soul and Body participate somewhat of both Natures and make the Communication which is betwixt them A King who is Just and Moderate in his Nature who Rules according to the Laws whom God made Happy by Forming the Temper of His Soul to the Constitution of His Government and who makes us Happy by assuming over us no other Sovereignty than that wherein our Welfare and Liberty consists A Prince I say of so excellent a Character and so suitable to the Wishes of all Good Men could not better have convey'd Himself into His Peoples Apprehensions than in your Lordships Person who so lively express the same Virtues that you seem not so much a Copy as an Emanation of Him Mod●…ration is doubtless an Establishment of Greatness but there is a steadiness of Temper which is likewise requisite in a Minister of State So equal a mixture of both Virtues that he may stand like an Isthmus betwixt the two Encrooching Seas of Arbitrary Power and Lawless Anarchy The Undertaking would be difficult to any but an Extraordinary Genius to stand at the Line and to divide the Limits to pay what is due to the Great Representative of the Nation and neither to inhance nor to yield up the undoubted Prerogatives of the Crown These My Lord are the proper Virtues of a Noble Englishman as indeed they are properly English Virtues No People in the World being capable of using them but we who have the Happiness to be Born under so equal and so well-pois'd a Government A Government which has all the Advantages of Liberty beyond a Commonwealth and all the Marks of Kingly Sovereignty without the danger of a Tyranny Both my Nature as I am an Englishman and my Reason as I am a Man have bred in me a Loathing to that specious Name of a Repu●…ck That mock-appearance of a Liberty where all who have not part in the Government are Slaves And Slaves they are of a viler Note than such as are Subjects to an absolute Dominion For no Christian Monarchy is so Absolute but 't is Circumscrib'd with Laws But when the Executive Power is in the Law-Makers there is no