{63} Since this passage first went to press, I have received from Dr. Grosart the most happy news that he has procured a perfect copy of this precious volume, and will shortly add it to his occasional issues of golden waifs and strays forgotten by the ebb-tide of time. Not even the disinterment of Robert Chester's "glorified" poem, with its appended jewels of verse from Shakespeare's very hand and from others only less great than Shakespeare's, all now at last reset in their strange original framework, was a gift of greater price than this. {89} Compare with Beaumont's admirable farce of Bessus the wretched imitation of it attempted after his death in the _Nice Valour_ of Fletcher; whose proper genius was neither for pure tragedy nor broad farce, but for high comedy and heroic romance--a field of his own invention; witness _Monsieur Thomas_ and _The Knight of Malta_: while Beaumont has approved himself in tragedy all but the worthiest disciple of Shakespeare, in farce beyond all comparison the aptest pupil of Jonson. He could give us no _Fox_ or _Alchemist_; but the inventor of Bessus and Calianax was worthy of the esteem and affection returned to him by the creator of Morose and Rabbi Busy.