Edward Ravenscroft

"This I did to prevent expences, for … a penny savd, is a penny got."

"I think it a greater theft to Rob the dead of their Praise, then the Living of their Money."

"I have been told by some anciently conversant with the Stage, that it was not Originally his, but brought by a private Author to be Acted and he only gave some Master-touches to one or two of the Principal Parts or Characters; this I am apt to believe, because tis the most incorrect and indigested piece in all his Works, It seems rather a heap of Rubbish then a Structure."