p. 94, l. 12 _your Friends_. 4tos misprint ‘your Friend’.
p. 95, l. 23 _upon my Name_. 1724 ‘upon thy Name’.
p. 96, l. 12 _that charming Maid_. 1724 ‘the charming Maid’.
p. 96, l. 12 _Whom I’d enjoy’d e’er now_. 4tos ‘whom I’de enjoy
e’re now’.
p. 97, l. 6 _preserve_. 4tos and 1724 here insert the stage direction
’.Kneels.’ But this is repeated at the line (11) ‘Thus low I take the
Bounty from your Hands’ and is far more appropriate at the latter
juncture. There can be no doubt that the stage direction ‘[Kneels’ should
also be inserted at line 19--’Thus low I fall’--and it has been misplaced
by the printer in the old copies. I have restored it.
p. 97, l. 18 _only me unhappy, when, Sir, my Crime
Was only too much faith?_
4tos punctuate: ‘only me unhappy? When, Sir, my Crime
Was only too much Faith;’
p. 97. l. 29 _Seas again_. At the conclusion 1677 prints ‘The End of the
Play.’
p. 98, l. 18 _Sex’s_. 4tos ‘Sexes’.
p. 105 _To Philaster_. This Epistle Dedicatory only appears in the 4tos
1683, 1696.
p. 108 _Dramatis Personae_. I have added ‘_Geron_ the old Tutor to
Orsames; _Gorel_, a Citizen; Keeper of the Castle; A Druid; Courtiers
(men and women); Officers: Guards; Huntsmen; Assassins’. 4to 1698
misprints ‘Ismenis’ for ‘Ismenes’. ‘Thursander’ for ‘Thersander’. ‘the
Court of Daca’ for ‘the Court of Dacia’. 1724 gives ‘a Rabble of the
Mobile’. 4tos ‘all a Rabble of the Mobile’.
p. 109, l. 4 _never the Luck_. 4tos ‘never the ill Luck’.
p. 109, l. 15 _what’s thy Business_. 1724 ‘what’s the Business’.
p. 109, l. 28 _I spake_. 4tos ‘I speak’.
p. 110, l. 23 _conspire against him_. 4tos ‘’.ainst him’. But the metre
requires 1724 ‘against’.
p. 111, l. 6 _him here_. 4to 1696 misprints ‘here him’.
p. 111, l. 14 _Virago he Daughter_. 1724 ‘Virago her Daughter’, which is
excellent sense but lacks the point of ‘he Daughter’.
p. 112, l. 22 _Ly. You sigh_. 4tos and 1724 print as prose. I have
arranged metrically.
p. 113, l. 16 _one of gentle Birth_. 4tos ‘of the gentle Birth’. 1724 ‘of
genteel Birth’.
p. 114, l. 11 _Pim. Pox on her_. 4tos divide Pimante’s speech at ‘let her
go.’ and commence a new line with ‘Well, Colonel,’ as if metrically. I
have followed 1724 as it is obviously prose.
p. 114, l. 25 _Sem. That’s strange!_ 4tos wrongly print this speech as
prose.
p. 115, l. 34 _Artabazes_. 4tos ‘Artabaces’.
p. 116, l. 3 _mistaken thing?_ 4tos punctuate ‘mistaken thing;’.
p. 116, l. 6 _fantastick_. 1724 wrongly ‘fanatick’.
p. 116, l. 24 _cruel Cause_. 4to 1696 misprints ‘crul Cause’.
p. 117, l. 9 [_Sem. looks about, finds the Cap and Feathers.
_Sem_. See, Madam, what I’ve found.
4tos and 1724 give the stage direction after the speech. I have
transposed these, as obviously such an arrangement is better.
p. 118, l. 20 _Ideas_. 4tos wrongly ‘Idea’s’.
p. 118, 1.29 _He rises_. 4tos and 1724 ‘[Rises.’ But it is Thersander who
is kneeling, not Cleomena. The insertion of ‘He’ saves any confusion.
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