Recently Recovered "Lost" Tudor Plays with some others
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Recently Recovered "Lost" Tudor Plays with some others
English drama -- Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600; Interludes, English; Moralities, English
_ye_ in manuscript, which Halliwell follows: Prof. Manly has
_he_--"_Study._ Yea, hold your peace ... that way" (139,_c_),
Halliwell in his reprint (1848) reads thus:--
Yea, hold your peace, best! we here now stay,
For, Instruction, I like not that way.
"_Good, sir_" (141,_b_), original _God, sir_--"_Striketh him_"
(144,_d_), this stage direction, which is not in manuscript,
should, of course, have been put within brackets--"Give ear
to _that_ we sing and say" (145,_c_), so in MS.; _what_ in
transcript of song in Shakespeare Soc. Papers, II. 78: it may
also be noted that in the same transcript the commencement of
the fifth stanza inserts _an_ not in the MS. which reads "After
eye given"--"_Here cometh in_ HONEST RECREATION," etc. (145,_a_
to 146,_b_), this stage direction in MS. is continuous, and the
song is given at the end of the play. I have inserted it here
as more convenient--"while we _him_ bear" (146,_b_), _here_
in MS., which is followed by Halliwell; I have accepted Prof.
Manly's amendment--"_Rea._ I wot well that" (146,_d_), in MS.
these words are followed in the same line by the first five words
of the next line, "The more to blame ye"; the scribe finding
out his mistake crossed them through, and then re-wrote them in
the next line as in text--"_Here_ COMFORT, QUICKNESS, STRENGTH
_go out_" (147,_a_), in the margin, very small, between the
speakers' names as if by an afterthought, is written, "Al go out
save Honest"--"Sure call a blow or twain" (162,_d_), Halliwell
says "the scribe here began to write the preceding speech of
Science but erased it." Reference to the manuscript shows that
the previous line originally ran, "By the mass, _madam, ye can no
good_," and that the words in italics were then crossed through
and the line re-written as in the present text. The next line,
commencing "And thou shalt sure," etc., has apparently been
written in after the mistake was discovered; it occurs at the
end of a page. At the top of the next page of the MS. the word
"Art" is written, and then crossed through, as if the writer had
begun to write the lines ascribed to Science (162,_d_) commencing
"Art a-swearing, too?"--"Welcome, mine own" (171,_c_), in the MS.
this song appears in another part of the book quite distinct from
the play, but as it is obviously intended to be sung here it is
restored to its place. Therefore the stage directions _supra_ and
_infra_ (171,_c_, 172,_d_) are continuous in the MS.--"life's end
[end] it" (174,_d_), in the MS. the line reads with _life's end
end it_, but the second _end_ is crossed through, erroneously it
would seem.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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