Excerpt from Works He was a keen observer of character, custom, and incident. But he wrote far too much and studied far too little. Had he exercised his mental powers less in the manner that he did exercise them, and niore after the manner of his four great contemporaries, Shakespeare, Beaumont, Fletcher, and Benjamin J onson. Then, probably his writings might have lived as theirs have, though it might have been in a totally different walk. In Taylor's writings there is abundance of amusement, their value, however, lies chiefly in the vivid and interesting description of English and Scottish life and custom of the period, which is to be found therein. 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.