The title-page bears the name of Robert Greene as author, together with a motto used by him in other works, which suggests that the manuscript may have been in some manner prepared for press before his death in 1592. Three passages from the play are quoted, rather inaccurately, in _England’s Parnassus_, 1600, above Greene’s name. The title-page also states that the play had been ‘sundrie times publikely plaide’, without, however, mentioning any company. The plot is entirely unhistorical, and P. A. Daniel and W. Creizenach independently traced its source to the first novel of the third day of the _Ecatommiti_ of Giraldi Cintio, a story in which, however, the identity of the characters is quite different. Whether Greene was also acquainted with Cintio’s play _Arrenopia_, based on the same story, is not known. LIST OF DOUBTFUL AND IRREGULAR READINGS. The play, evidently printed from a much altered and probably illegible manuscript, abounds in errors of every description. The following list is confined to such readings as are to some extent doubtful in the original and to a few literal misprints which might otherwise perhaps be thought due to the reprint. No irregularities recorded by previous editors are included. No variations of any importance have been found between the two copies collated. 3 _plac’st_ 36 deele 65 because 88 Idy 109 mifled 120 _Attus_ 203 choyseff (ff _broken_, _read_ choysest) 316 drie (? _read_ dire) 323 c.w. _X. of S._ 334 Beheld _Venns_ 373 moaths 440 autthoritie 482 bettet, 493 _Steu._ 611 Os 618 _Ba._ 643 part, 646 theworld, 648 weele (_perhaps_ we ele) 655 Simi Ranus, 661 _Simeranus_, 675 _king_, 691 wrethednesse: 702 _eate._ 742 loure, 757 louer 765 _letter._ 784 hath 801 what 834 doo shifting, 880 _Ateu._ (perhaps _Ate u._) 918 denoũced, it 983 same.) 988 to ... too 996 nye. (_perhaps_ ny e.) 1019 consider 1026 tryees 1028 step (_perhaps_ ste p) 1030 becauso 1045 sings. 1048 loue 1078 ean (e _not absolutely certain, read_ can) 1094 Bur 1159 Thon 1163 _Exennt._ 1175 the 1183 thee 1190 _Slip._ (there is a faint trace of the _i_ in the Dyce copy only) 1192 _Sip._ 1205 viutnerd (_original_ viutnerd) 1213 _Guatoes_ 1268 thon (_original_ tho@n@) 1279 (fe-)re ie. (_space not certain_) 1292 the (_perhaps_ th e) 1294 your (_perhaps_ y our) 1324 bettet 1332 yout 1355 esteemd, (_original_ esteemd‘) 1367 _ic pour._ Yea 1370 mee, 1378 woman, (_comma not quite certain_) 1398 Court,, 1399 stricknesse 1405 mstaled: 1411 preuention you (_original_ preuent ion you) 1423 _Nauo._ 1424 shildish 1433 appooued