Vol. ii., page 145, line 252. This speech should probably be given to
Herod.
Vol. ii., page 153, line 460. The prefix should doubtless be "_Zuc_."
Vol. ii., page 154, lines 477, 478. "And nose" should doubtless be
given to Hercules, and "And brain" to Zuccone.
Vol. ii., page 157, line 569. The old. eds give "Venice duke," but we
should read "Urbin's duke" (cf. page 226, line 444).
Vol. ii., page 171, line 299. Mr. Daniel suggests that we should place
a full stop after the word "speaks" and read "His signs to me and
_mien_ of profound reach."
Vol. ii., page 248, line 134. The words "No more: I bleed" appear to
belong to the wounded Carthalon.
Vol. ii., page 261, lines 21, 22. Query "bemoan'_t_" and
"revenge'_t_"?
Vol. ii., page 414, line 244, for "prolonged" Mr. Daniel ingeniously
suggests "prologued."
Vol. iii., page 214, line 78, for "faint" Mr. Daniel proposes
"feigned" (a certain emendation). In line 91, for "I resisted" he
proposes "if resisted."
Vol. iii., page 240, line 166, for "stung" Mr. Daniel proposes "stone."
Mr. Daniel sends me the following note on the plot of _What You
Will_:--
"A somewhat similar plot is found in _I Morti Vivi_,
Comedia, del molto excellente signore Sforza D'Oddi,
nell'Academia degli Insensati detto Forsennato, 1576. Oranta, a
lady of Naples, whose husband, Tersandro, is supposed drowned at
sea, is about to re-marry with Ottavio. Luigi, another suitor for
her hand, to hinder the marriage conspires with others to induce
one Iancola to personate Tersandro. Tersandro, however, has
escaped the sea, and arrives to find himself denied by his own
family (who have discovered Luigi's plot), and to be mistaken by
the conspirators themselves for Iancola. Tersandro's adventures
till his identity is established are somewhat similar to those of
Albano in _What You Will_.
"D'Oddi apparently derived many incidents of his plot from the
Greek romance of _Clitophon and Leucippe_, by Achilles
Tatius; as also did Anibal Caro for his comedy of _Gli
Straccioni_, 1582."
FIRST PART
OF
ANTONIO AND MELLIDA.
_The History of Antonio and Mellida. The first part. As it hath
beene sundry times acted, by the children of Paules. Written by I.
M. London Printed for Mathewe Lownes, and Thomas Fisher, and are
to be soulde in Saint Dunstans Church-yarde._ 1602. 4to.
STORY OF THE PLAY.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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