Excerpt from The Heart of the Puritan, 1917: Selections From Letters and Journals A witty playwright and actor, by his daily walk and conversation far removed from the Puritans, but who had some knowledge which they had not, once wrote of certain things as but the trappings and the suits of woe. Here, it would seem, is a nice discrimination, and one that it would be wise to retain in our thought of people as somber of garb and serious of demeanor as those whom we call Puri tans; but whose hearts were not thereby restrained from concern about mundane affairs or from love of wives and children. 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.