_King. Em._ By this we note (sweet-heart) in Kings and Princes A weakness, even in spite of all their wisdoms. And often to be master'd by abuses: Our natures here describ'd too, and what humors Prevail above our Reasons to undo us. But this the last and best. When no friend stands, The gods are merciful, and lend their hands. _Flourish._ Epilogue _Now as the Husbandman, whose Costs and Pain,_ _Whose Hopes and Helps lie buried in his Grain,_ _Waiting a happy Spring to ripen full_ _His long'd-for Harvest, to the Reapers pull;_ _Stand we expecting, having sown our Ground_ _With so much charge, (the fruitfulness not found)_ _The Harvest of our Labours: For we know_ _You are our Spring; and when you smile, we grow._ _Nor Charge nor Pain, shall bind us from your Pleasures,_ _So you but lend your hands to fill our Measures._ FINIS. APPENDIX. _In the following references to the text the lines are numbered from the top of the page, including titles, acts, stage directions, &c., but not, of course, the headline or mere 'rules.' Where, as in the lists of Persons Represented, there are double columns, the right-hand column is numbered after the left._ It has not been thought necessary to record the correction of every turned letter nor the substitution of marks of interrogation for marks of exclamation and _vice versâ_. Full-stops have been silently inserted at the ends of speeches and each fresh speaker has been given the dignity of a fresh line: in the double-columned folio the speeches are frequently run on. Misprints in the Quartos and the First Folio are recorded when they appear to be interesting. A word or two from the printed text is attached to the variants recorded below in cases where the variant, by itself, would not be sufficiently clear. Altered punctuation is shown, usually, by printing the old punctuation. [Thanks are due to Mrs Arnold Glover for collations of quartos in the British Museum and to R. F. Towndrow, for collations of those in the Bodleian.] THIERRY AND THEODORET. =A= = 1621. =B= = 1648. =C= = 1649. =D= = Second folio. (=A=) THE | TRAGEDY | OF THIERRY KING OF | _France, and his Brother_ | Theodoret. | As it was diverse times acted at the Blacke-| _Friers by the Kings Majesties_ | Servants. | _LONDON_, | Printed for _Thomas Walkley_, and are to bee sold at | his shop in _Britaines Burse_, at the signe of | the Eagle and Child. | 1621. (=B=) THE | TRAGEDY | OF | THIERRY | King of _France_, and his Brother | THEODORET. | As it was diverse times acted at the | _Blacke-Friers_ _by the Kings Majesties_ | Servants. Written by | John Fletcher Gent. | _LONDON_, | Printed for _Humphrey Mosely_, and are to be sold at | his Shop at the _Princes Armes_ in St. _Pauls_ | Church-yard. 1648.