Kings and rulers -- Drama; Revenge -- Drama; Tragedies (Drama)
(%F%) The | Maids Tragedy, | as it hath been divers times Acted at
the Black-| Friers, by the Kings Majesties Servants: | written
by Francis Beaumont and | John Fletcher, Gentlemen. | The sixth
Impression, Revised and Corrected exactly by the Original. | London
Printed for William Leake, at the Crown in Fleet-street, be | tween
the two Temple Gates. 1650.
(%G%) The Maids Tragedy, | as it hath been divers times | Acted | at
the Black-Friers, | by the | Kings Majesties Servants. | Written
by Francis Beaumont, | and John Fletcher, Gentlemen. | The sixth
Impression, Revised and Corrected exactly | by the Original. |
London, | Printed in the Year 1661.
In the following notes each of these quartos is referred to by the
capital letter prefixed to it in the above list. A--F contain a
wood-cut representing Amintor stabbing Aspatia.
p. I, l. 3. A--G] Speakers. l. 6. A and B _omit_] a Noble
Gentleman.
C after the list of Speakers _adds_ the following verses, repeated
with variations of spelling in D--G]
_The Stationers Censure_.
Good Wine requires no Bush, they say,
And I, No Prologue such a Play:
The Makers therefore did forbeare
To have that Grace prefixed here.
But cease here (Censure) least the Buyer
Hold thee in this a vaine Supplyer.
My office is to set it forth
When Fame applauds it's reall worth.
l.26. A possibly correctly gives this speech to Lysippus. l.27. A]
You are brother. l. 30. B, C and D _omit_] thou. ll. 31 and
32. A and B] masks.
l. 33. A _omits_] their King. l. 34. A] groome. l. 38. A _omits_]
to Rhodes.
l. 39. A] blowes abroad bringst us our peace at home.
p. 2,
l. 1. A _omits_] too.
l. 2. A] welcome. A--E] above his or.
l. 3. A] world.
l. 16. A] straight.
l. 18. A] most true.
l. 19. A] solemnities.
l. 22. A] Yes, and have given cause to those, that here.
l. 29. A _omits_] with armes.
l. 33. A _omits_] my friend.
l. 34. A _omits_] and temperate.
p. 3,
l. 3. A] weighes.
l. 5. A] Enter Aspatia passing with attendance.
ll. 14 and 15. Printed as one line in G and the Folio. The _Exit
Aspatia_ has been printed in the text at the end of Aspatia's
speech, as in A--F.
l. 16. A] You are mistaken sir, she is not married. A full-stop has been
substituted for a comma at the end of the line here, and elsewhere
in similar cases.
l. 21. G _omits_] he.
l. 25. A] has.
l. 27. B] about.
l. 28. G _omits_] the fair.
l. 37. A] 'a should not thinke.
l. 38. A] Could I but call it backe.
l. 39. A] such base revenges.
l. 40. A _omits_] holds he still his greatness with the King.
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