To here the cause, and see theffect of this newe Tragicall Commedie.
x. 1566. Lewis Wager.
[From Prologue to The Life and Repentance of Marie Magdalene (1566). cf. ch. xxiii.]
l. 10. We and other persons haue exercised
This comely and good facultie a long season,
Which of some haue bene spitefully despised;
Wherefore, I thinke, they can alleage no reason.
Where affect ruleth, there good iudgement is geason.
They neuer learned the verse of Horace doubtles,
Nec tua laudabis studia, aut aliena reprehendes....