A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 15Dodsley, Robert
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A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 15
Dodsley, Robert
English drama
"_Field_ is gone,
Whose action first did give it name, and one,
Who came the neerest to him, is denide
By his gray beard to shew the height and pride
Of D'Ambois youth and braverie; yet to hold
Our title still a foot, and not grow cold
By giving it o're, a third man with his best
Of care and paines defends our interest;
As Richard he was lik'd, nor doe wee feare,
In personating Dambois, hee'le appeare
To faint, or goe lesse, so your free consent
As heretofore give him encouragement."
[85] P. 73, 4º. Edit. 1772.
[86] [This and the other quotations were not correctly printed. See
Halliwell's "Ludus Coventriæ," 1841, p. 121.]
[87] [_Ibid._, p. 343.]
[88] [See Halliwell's "Ludus Coventriæ," 1841, p. 401.]
[89] [See a description of the espousals in Stow's "Chronicle," ed.
1615, fol. 483-4.]
[90] [Compare vol. i. pp. 199, 201, &c.]
[91] Till the twenty-fifth year of Queen Elizabeth, the queen had not
any players; but in that year twelve of the best of all those who
belonged to several lords were chosen, and sworn her servants.--_Stow's
Annals_, p. 698.
[92] [An error. This play, which has been long known not to be the
first regular comedy, was probably performed about 1566.]
[93] [See "English Drama and Stage," edit. Hazlitt, p. 19.]
[94] [_Ibid._, p. 37.]
[95] ["English Dramas and Stage," p. 42.]
[96] [_Ibid._, pp. 59, 60.]
[97] [But see _Ibid._, pp. 63-70.]
ERRATA
VOL. I. Page 62, for _goodness_ read _goddess_.
VOL. II. ... 135, ... _knotted_ ... _notted_.[98]
... ... 216, ... _noboby_ ... _nobody_.
VOL. III. ... 58,[99] ... _oppose_ ... _appose_.
... ... 59, ... _maketh_ ... _keepeth_.
... ... 71, ... _fault_ ... _faults_.
... ... 82, ... _so sore_ ... _to fore_.
... ... _ib._ ... _be fed_ ... _to be fed_.
... ... 83, l. 17. The correspondent thinks this
line belongs to _Omnes Famulæ_.
... ... 88, for _had chid_ read _chid_.
... ... 95, ... _I ever_ ... _ever I_.
... ... 97, ... _wage-pasty_ ... _way-pasty_.[100]
... ... 99, ... _he_ ... _ye_.
... ... _ib._ ... _ield_ ... _yelde_.
... ... 105, ... _to please_ ... _it please_.
... ... 108, ... _a master_ ... _an M_.
... ... 117, ... _as much_ ... _so much_.
... ... 118, ... _make a_ ... _make me a_.
... ... 121, ... _another ... _another but_.
than_
... ... _ib._ ... _readiness_ ... _a readiness_.
... ... 122, ... _other's_ ... _others'_.
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