A Select Collection of Old English Plays. Originally Published by Robert Dodsley in the Year 1744. Volume the Eleventh

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Excerpt from A Select Collection of Old Plays, Vol. 11 of 12
It is impossible to rely implicitly upon the repre scutations in the Merry conceited Jests of George Peele, but as far as they deserve credit3 they certainly shew that he was driven to extreme shifts to maintain himself; sometimes resorting to methods of obtaining money by false pretences, as well as by positive theft, which in the present day would have brought him under the lash of the law. Oldys states, that at his death he left behind him a wife and daughter; but this is only an inference from an assertion in the pamphlet to which we'are now referring, that he married and had a daughter of ten years old, whom he now and then employed to assist him in his fraudulent contrivances.
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