To
H. T. Swedenberg, Junior
founder, protector, friend
He that delights to Plant and Set,Makes After-Ages in his Debt.Where could they find another formed so fit,
To poise, with solid sense, a sprightly wit?
Were these both wanting, as they both abound,
Where could so firm integrity be found?
The verse and emblem are from George Wither, A Collectionof Emblems, Ancient and Modern (London, 1635), illustrationxxxv, page 35.
The lines of poetry (123-126) are from "To My HonouredKinsman John Driden," in John Dryden, The Works of JohnDryden, ed. Sir Walter Scott, rev. and corr. George Saintsbury(Edinburgh: William Patterson, 1885), xi, 78.
The Augustan Reprint Society
WILLIAM MOUNTFORT
TheLIFE and DEATHofDoctor FaustusMade into aFARCE
(1697)
Introduction byAnthony Kaufman
PUBLICATION NUMBER 157
WILLIAM ANDREWS CLARK MEMORIAL LIBRARY
University of California, Los Angeles
1973
GENERAL EDITORS
William E. Conway, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
George Robert Guffey, University of California, Los Angeles
Maximillian E. Novak, University of California, Los Angeles
David S. Rodes, University of California, Los Angeles
ADVISORY EDITORS
Richard C. Boys, University of Michigan
James L. Clifford, Columbia University
Ralph Cohen, University of Virginia
Vinton A. Dearing, University of California, Los Angeles
Arthur Friedman, University of Chicago
Louis A. Landa, Princeton University
Earl Miner, Princeton University
Samuel H. Monk, University of Minnesota
Everett T. Moore, University of California, Los Angeles
Lawrence Clark Powell, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
James Sutherland, University College, London
H. T. Swedenberg, Jr., University of California, Los Angeles
Robert Vosper, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
Carl A. Zimansky, State University of Iowa
CORRESPONDING SECRETARY
Edna C. Davis, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
EDITORIAL ASSISTANT
Jean T. Shebanek, William Andrews Clark Memorial LibraryTypography by Wm. M. Cheney
INTRODUCTION
According to "Some Account of the Life of Mr. W. Mountfort"prefixed to the collected plays of 1720, William Mountfort,successful playwright and actor, was born "the Son ofCaptain Mountfort, a Gentleman of a good Family in Staffordshire;and he spent the greatest Part of his Younger Years inthat County, without being bred up to any Employment." Since"his Gaiety of Temper and Airy Disposition ... could not beeasily restrain'd to the solitary Amusements of a Rural Life,"[1]he