ON SOME SUPPRESSED PASSAGES IN W. CARTWRIGHT'S POEMS

As I want my doubts cleared up on a literary point of some importance, I thought I could not do better than state them in your "NOTES AND QUERIES." I have before me a copy of the not by any means rare volume, called *Comedies, Tragi-Comedies, with other Poems, by Mr. William Cartwright*, 8vo. 1651, with the portrait by Lombart. Though the book may be called a common one, I apprehend that my copy of it is in an uncommon state, for I find in it certain leaves as they were originally printed, and certain other leaves as they were afterwards substituted. The fact must have been that after the volu…