Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Series in Philology and Literature, Vol. 8
The language of the Fair Maid is clear and straightforward, and the few obscurities can be accounted for as due to a cutting of the play or to printers' errors.
Humor with Day is light and fanciful and runs to raillery, of which the scene at bowls in The Isle of Gulls may be taken as a specimen. The single example of humor in the Fair Maid, the scene between Frog and Douce, though good of its kind, is broad and, to say the least, not fanciful.
It is true that the riming retort can be found in both authors, but this was equally true Of so many writing at that time that it can hardly have much value as unsupported evidence.
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