One Mr. Prynne, a man of most furiously scrupulous principles, who

would have thought himself damned had he worn a cassock instead of a

short cloak, and have been glad to see one-half of mankind cut the

other to pieces for the glory of God, and the Propaganda Fide; took

it into his head to write a most wretched satire against some pretty

good comedies, which were exhibited very innocently every night

before their majesties. He quoted the authority of the Rabbis, and

some passages from St. Bonaventure, to prove that the OEdipus of