[222] [Old copy, _happely_] [223] [Old copy, _naught ... for letting_--the meaning being apparently “It is too bad of you to stop my drink in this dry weather by hanging me.”] [224] [Old copy, _Prece to go foorth_.] [225] The words “take him by the hand” [in the old copy form part of the text]. [226] [Old copy, _ye shall_.] [227] [This stage direction, in the old copy, is divided into two portions, but all appear to enter together. The old copy reads also, as if it was Virginius who brought in the tomb; but surely it is Doctrina and Memory who do so.] CAMBYSES. _EDITIONS._ _A lamentable tragedy mixed ful of pleasant mirth, conteyning the life of Cambises King of Percia, from the beginning of his kingdom vnto his death, his one good deed of execution, after that many wicked deeds and tirannous murders, committed by and through him, and last of all his odious death by Gods Iustice appointed, in such order as followeth. By Thomas Preston._ THE DIVISION OF THE PARTS. COUNSEL, } HUFF, } PRAXASPES, } _For one man._ MURDER, } LOB, } THE THIRD LORD. } LORD, } RUFF, } COMMON’S CRY, } _For one man._ COMMON’S COMPLAINT, } LORD SMIRDIS, } VENUS. } KNIGHT, } SNUFF, } SMALL HABILITY, } PROOF, } _For one man._ EXECUTION, } ATTENDANCE, } SECOND LORD. } CAMBYSES, } _For one man._ EPILOGUS. } PROLOGUE, } SISAMNES, } DILIGENCE, } CRUELTY, } _For one man._ HOB, } PREPARATION, } THE FIRST LORD. } AMBIDEXTER, } _For one man._ TRIAL. } MERETRIX, } SHAME, } OTIAN, } _For one man._ MOTHER, } LADY, } QUEEN. } YOUNG CHILD, } _For one man._ CUPID. } [Col.] Imprinted at London by John Allde. 4o. Black letter. A Lamentable Tragedie, &c. [Col.] Imprinted at London by Edward Allde. 4o. Black letter. HAWKINS’S PREFACE.