Heywood's characters, in this play, for instance, his country gentlemen, &c., are exactly what we see, but of the best kind of what we see in life.

Shakspeare makes us believe, while we are among his lovely creations, that they are nothing but what we are familiar with, as in dreams new things seem old; but we awake, and sigh for the difference.
_The English Traveller_ .-- Heywood's preface to this play is interesting, as it shows the heroic indifference about the opinion of posterity, which some of these great writers seem to have felt.

There is a magnanimity in authorship, as in everything else.

His ambition seems to have been confined to the pleasure of hearing the players speak his lines while he lived.

It does not appear that he ever contemplated the possibility of being read by after-ages.