“With regard to the three female parts, and another of a Moorish woman,(566) we are left much in the dark, and I have placed names against them with considerable hesitation. “The actors who doubled their parts were W. Penn, who was also a Jailor; Rowland, who was also King Prusias; Patrick, who was also a Captain; and Baxter, who was also an officer and a servant, besides, as well as we can judge, delivering a speech or two as Demetrius. Rowland must also have trebled his small parts. Besides these, we hear in the course of the play of W. Mago, Gascoine, Herbert, and Harry Wilson; the last was a singer.... It need hardly be added that the ’tragedy’ was got up and acted by the Company called the King’s Players, all the names being those of performers in that association in 1631.” APPENDIX VIII. COLLATION OF MS. OF “BELIEVE AS YOU LIST” This play is accessible to the general public at present in Colonel Cunningham’s edition of Massinger, and in Mr. Arthur Symons’s edition in “The Mermaid Series.” An examination of the original MS., now in the British Museum, shows that Cunningham’s text is not always correct. Though an exhaustive collation of the MS. is not necessary, several points of interest emerge from a study of the original document, which I have digested here. (C. = Cunningham’s edition; MS. = Manuscript reading. Brackets signify Cunningham’s conjectural additions, which he has not always taken the trouble to indicate.) Page 595. There is no list of dramatis personae in MS. I., 1.—C.: Enter Antiochus and a Stoic. The three servants enter after line 118. MS.: Antiochus Stoic in philosopher’s habits; Chrysalus with a writing, Syrus, Geta, bondmen. I., 1, 26.—C.: Stoic. MS.: Stoic: Hermit (cancelled). I., 1, 56.—C.: Old (He) sper with his fierce beams (scorch)ing in vain Their (wives, their sisters and their tender daughters). MS.: The line is much damaged, being the last on the page. A mention of the old after the young (lines 52 to 55) seems to be required. I read it thus: Olde men with sil ... in vain. There is no trace of 57, but it is required by the sense. I., 1, 60.—MS.: The soldiers’ greedy lusts. “Greedy” deleted. I., 1, 85.—C.: A prey so precious and so dearly purchased. MS.: A prey so precious and dearly purchased. “Precious” is scanned as a trisyllable. I., 1, 117.—C.: The imperious waves (Of my) calamities have already fallen. MS.: “Of my” is not in MS. The last word of 118 is “Swollen.” The word “Marvell” can be seen at the end of a line after 118. Here comes a hiatus of two pages. No doubt Antiochus had a fairly long soliloquy. It is impossible to tell how many lines are lost here, as the characters seem to be conducting a rapid dialogue, in which it is not necessary to suppose that a whole line was assigned to each speaker at a time. I., 1, 119.—C.: Despair with sable wings (Sail-stretch’d ab)ove my head.