His Majesty's Well-Beloved

Excerpt: AN EPISODE IN THE LIFE OF MR.THOMAS BETTERTON AS TOLD BY HIS FRIEND JOHN HONEYWOOD. May it please you that I, an humble Clerk and Scrivener, do venture to address so talented a Lady; but there is that upon my Conscience which compels me to write these lines. The Goodness and Charity of Mistress Saunderson are well known, and 'tis not as a Suppliant that I crave pardon for my Presumption, ...