+--------------------------------------------------------------+ | Transcriber's Notes & Errata | | | | Spellings of names, abbreviations and a number of other | | words, punctuation including the use of apostrophes, use of | | accents, hyphenation and italicisation are very inconsistent | | in the text. They have been transcribed as in the text, | | except for very obvious typographical errors. | | | | In the Preface, the underlined words have been represented | | as italicised words. | | | | Superscripts in the Preface have been preceded by carat | | characters. | | | | Embedded stage directions in the text have been left in | | situ, enclosed in square brackets. | | | | End-of-line and centred stage directions in the text have | | been placed on their own lines. | | | | The following words occur in both hyphenated and | | unhyphenated forms in the text. The number of instances of | | each word are given in parentheses. | | | | |Cheap-side (1) |Cheapside (2) | | | |Hoo-ra (2) |Hoora (3) | | | |me-thinks (2) |methinks (4) | | | |Merry-man (2) |Merryman (10) | | | |who-ever (1) |whoever (1) | | | | | The following obvious typographical errors have been | | corrected. | | | | |Error |Correction | | | |is is |is | | | |wihin |within | | | |the |thee | | | |the the |the | | | |Names |Name | | | |Speaker's name omitted. |Fri. | | | |Salvage |Savage | | | | +--------------------------------------------------------------+