=Previous Editions and the Present Text.=--The title of the first quarto (1584) is, "A moste excellent Comedie of Alexander, Campaspe, and Diogenes, played before the Queene's Maiestie on twelfe day at night, by her Maiestie's Children, and the Children of Paules. Imprinted at London, for Thomas Cadman, 1584." In the second edition, issued the same year by the same publisher, the title is changed to _Campaspe_, and the play is said to have been given "on new yeares day at night." The title, _Campaspe_, was retained in the third quarto, 1591, for William Broome, and in Edward Blount's duodecimo collective edition, 1632. (Manly.) Both, too, state that the play was given "on twelfe-day at night." The headlines of all the quartos read _Alexander and Campaspe_; of Blount, _A tragicall Comedie of Alexander and Campaspe_. Besides the quartos and Blount's _Sixe Court Comedies_ there are these reprints: in Vol. II., Dodsley's _Select Collection of Old Plays_, 1825; in Vol. I., _John Lilly's Dramatic Works_, F. W. Fairholt, 1858; in Vol. II., _Specimens of the Pre-Shaksperean Drama_, J. M. Manly, 1897. In the footnotes of the present edition the quartos are indicated by A. B. and C., the other editions by Bl. Do. F. and M. respectively. Blount's text, mainly, is followed. The variant readings of the quartos are given on the authority of Fairholt. GEORGE P. BAKER. FOOTNOTES: [751] The Introduction to _Endimion_, Holt & Co., carefully considers the evidence for all these statements. CAMPASPE _Played before the Queenes Maiestie_ on _Twelfe_ day at Night: _By her_ MAIESTIES Children, and the Children of _Paules_. _Vignette with motto: Mollia cum duris_ LONDON, Printed by _William Stansby_, for _Edward Blount_. 1632. The Persons of the Play[752] ALEXANDER, _King of Macedon_. HEPHESTION, _his General_. CLYTUS, } PARMENIO, } MILECTUS, } _Warriors_. PHRYGIUS, } MELIPPUS, _Chamberlain to Alexander_. ARISTOTLE, } DIOGENES, } CRISIPPUS, } CRATES, } _Philosophers_. CLEANTHES, } ANAXARCHUS, } CRYSUS, } APELLES, _a Painter_. SOLINUS, } SYLVIUS, } _Citizens of Athens_. PERIM, } MILO, } _Sons of Sylvius_. TRICO, } GRANICUS, _Servant to Plato_. MANES, _Servant to Diogenes_. PSYLLUS, _Servant to Appelles_. Page _to Alexander_. Citizens of Athens. Soldiers. CAMPASPE, } _Theban Captives_. TIMOCLEA, } LAIS, _a Courtezan_. _SCENE_: ATHENS] FOOTNOTES: