Excerpt from The Dramatic Works and Poems of James Shirley, Vol. 5 of 6: With Notes; Containing, the Gentlemen of Venice; The Politician; The Imposture; The Cardinal; The Sisters; The Court Secret The gentleman op Venues.) This play was licensed in October, 1639; but not printed till 1655. Langbaine conjec tures that the intrigue between Florelli, Cornari, and Glandi ana, is borrowed from a novel in Gayton's Festivous Note: on Don Quixote, B. Iv. Ch. 6, 7, 8. The title of the old copy is. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.