Great Britain -- History -- Poetry; Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Sources
All that can be gleaned from the intermediate prose, upon this subject,
is very inconclusive and unsatisfactory. For example, there being no
man ready at the meeting,[24] Baldwin said: “I will somewhat doe my
part, I will, under your correction, declare _the tragedy of Thomas
Mowbray, duke of Northfolk_.” And to this life, in edition 1571,
“_T. Ch._” is added, the signature of Sir T. CHALONER. Again, at p.
77, FERRERS is staid by one who briefly said: “To the end, BALDWIN,
that you may know what to say of the Percies,--I will take upon me
the person of the Lord Henry Percy,” &c. and this is left without
signature, and given to BALDWIN. Similar at p. 102, where the Speaker
adopting king James, concludes “mark, Baldwin, what I think he may
say,” and which also, as wanting signature, has the same appropriation.
Several others are contradictory, as being delivered in the person
of one of the company, and since assigned to the Editor, by whose
indolence, perhaps, in not altering the conversations to suit the fact,
after public approbation extinguished the desire of secrecy, and real
signatures were added, much of this complexity arises.
_A Myrrovr for Magistrates--Anno 1563. Imprinted at London in
Fletestrete nere to Saynct Dunstans Churche by Thomas Marshe._
178 leaves.
This title in the same border as before. In addition to the contents of
the preceding article, this has the original Induction by Sackville;
and the eight following legends, as a second part, viz.
20. Rivers by _Baldwin_.
21. Hastings _Dolman_.
Induction _Sackville_.
22. Buckingham _Sackville_.
23. Collingborn _Baldwin_.
24. Richard III. _Segar_.
25. Jane Shore _Churchyard_.
26. Somerset *_Baldwin_.
27. The Blacksmith _Cavyll_.
As well in this as the prior edition, there is a lapse in numbering the
folio from xlviii to lix.[25] The other edition is printed on a better
paper, and with clearer ink; abounds less in press errors; and has not
such frequent inaccuracies in the numbering, though they correspond
in leaves to fol. Lxxxv, sig. k i, where “endeth the first parte”
in this edition. The opening prose, or conversation, of the second
part is addressed to the reader, by BALDWIN, in whose hands FERRERS
is described, as placing all he had brought, having business great
and weighty to attend, and knowing he could “do it well inough:” And
“dyuers of the rest lykyng hys deuyse, vsed the lyke maner.” The whole
controul of this first edition of the second part was evidently given
to Baldwin.
At folio Cxvi, or sig. P iii, is the unusual circumstance of a variance
being made in two instances, while printing, and here given as they
stand in two different copies:
One has:
The _Induction_.
_The tapets torne, and euery_ blome _downe blowen_.
The other:
Mayster Sackuilles _Induction_.
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