comforts"--"_Intentio_ _judicat quenquam_" (357,_a_), "The intention decides everything"; no doubt proverbial--"_In principio_" (364,_d_), "in the beginning": the first two words of the Latin version of St. John's Gospel--"_Confiteor_". .. _Deo gratias_ _.. . Deo gratias ago tibi_" (366,_b_), "I confess ... thanks be to God ... God I thank thee": see Luke xviii. 11--"_Tu testimonium. .. est verum_" (367,_a_), "Thou bearest testimony of thyself; and thy testimony is not true"; an adaptation of John viii. 13--"_Qui vivit. .. seculorum secula_" (368,_a_), "Who lives through the infinite ages of age." _Amended Readings, Corrigenda, Suggestions, &c._ The collation is A to Civ in 4s, with A1,_v_ blank.--Names of Players are not in the original.--The colophon is transferred from Civ,_v_--Stage directions and words in brackets do not appear in the original: this is not further mentioned in these notes--"_Et_ a te _gemitus_" (351,_b_), _a te_ not in original--"As it _ravisheth_ the soul" (351,_c_), original _rauysshet_--"such a pulpit man to _lose_" (352,_b_), original _lese_--"_Reponde_, tunc, _domine_" (352,_d_), original _tunice_--"that same death _thou shalt_ die" (353,_a_), erroneously given in my text: the original has _shalt_ _thou_--["_The continuation seems imperfect_"], there may be several causes for this. Certainly here, as in other places, there are no signs whatever in original of mutilation or of lines omitted. The text goes straight on, though the relation of one part to another is by no means obvious. The whole play seems curiously incomplete and scrappy, even for early dramatic effort, oftentimes of the "thinnest" and crudest. True, the action may be modelled somewhat on the lines of Heywood's _Pardoner and the Friar_, in which the "interruptions" of one speaker with another lead to "business." Or the play may be a mere fragment of the "book," as it left the author's hands--surreptitious, unauthorised, or unrevised. In the former case, especially assuming that it was intended as a kind of a "dramatic sermon," the action shows order of a kind: commencing with what is obviously intended as the commencement of an exhortation and omitting the "comic" and "lighter" parts, the sermon would, in a measure, be naturally complete by "following on" the speeches as follows: _St. John_ _the Evan._ 351,_b_ to 352,_a_; _Irisdision_, 353,_c_ (with asides, incentives, or interruptions) to 356,_a_; _St. John the_ _Evan._ 357,_b_ to 358,_a_; then comes an "interval," and the discourse is resumed at (JE365,_c_ to end) winding up with the "application" which was soon to form such an important feature in Puritan worship. So for the point directly at issue; but another puzzle confronts the student and one concerning which at this early stage I do not pretend to offer a solution.