Thebes[381] did his green, unknowing, youth engage;
He chooses Athens in his riper age.
EPILOGUE
TO
CONSTANTINE THE GREAT.
BY MR N. LEE, 1684.
The play, to which this is the prologue, is but a second-rate performance. It is founded on the story of Faustina and Crispus, which the learned will find in Ammianus Marcellinus, and the English reader in Gibbon. Arius, the heretic, is the villain of the piece, which concludes fortunately.
Our hero's happy in the play's conclusion;
The holy rogue at last has met confusion:
Though Arius all along appeared a saint,