John Speed Quote

So great was the attempt to assay the erection of this large and laborious Theatre, whose only platform might well have expected the readiest hand of the best artist, that even in the entrance of the first draught, as one altogether discouraged, I found myself far unfit and unfurnished both of matter and means, either to build, or to beautifie so stately a project.

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