Philaster, or, Love lies a bleeding : a comedy as it hath been divers times acted at the Globe, and at the Black-Friers and now at the Theatre Royal, by Their Majesties Servants
Philaster, or, Love Lies a Bleeding is a 1687 London comedy by Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, printed for the booksellers Richard Bentley and Susanna Magnes for a theatre-going reading public. The picture is a printer's ornament: a heraldic shield with three boars' heads on a field, topped by a boar's head crest and a motto ribbon reading Fide et Fortitudine. A designer might take from it the compact logic of a coat of arms, with a shield, crest, and motto ribbon arranged as a vintage emblem.
