Trebatius speak among these,

"Sibi quisque timet, quanquam est intactus, et odit."

And men may justly impute such rages, if continued, to the
writer, as his sports. The increase of which lust in liberty,
together with the present trade of the stage, in all their
miscelline interludes, what learned or liberal soul doth not
already abhor? where nothing but the filth of the time is
uttered, and with such impropriety of phrase, such plenty of
solecisms, such dearth of sense, so bold prolepses, so racked
metaphors, with brothelry, able to violate the ear of a pagan,
and blasphemy, to turn the blood of a Christian to water. I
cannot but be serious in a cause of this nature, wherein my
fame, and the reputation of divers honest and learned are the
question; when a name so full of authority, antiquity, and
all great mark, is, through their insolence, become the lowest
scorn of the age; and those men subject to the petulancy of
every vernaculous orator, that were wont to be the care of
kings and happiest monarchs. This it is that hath not only
rapt me to present indignation, but made me studious
heretofore, and by all my actions, to stand off from them;
which may most appear in this my latest work, which you, most
learned Arbitresses, have seen, judged, and to my crown,
approved; wherein I have laboured for their instruction and
amendment, to reduce not only the ancient forms, but manners
of the scene, the easiness, the propriety, the innocence, and
last, the doctrine, which is the principal end of poesie, to
inform men in the best reason of living. And though my
catastrophe may, in the strict rigour of comic law, meet with