[242] The best editions of _M. T._, since the time of Dyce, are those of P. A. Daniel, in the _Variorum_ (1904), Glover and Waller, in the _Cambridge English Classics_ (1905), and A. H. Thorndike, in the _Belles Lettres_ (1906). [243] I, 3; II, 2; III, 2; IV, 1; V, 4. [244] For conjectural sources see Chapter VII, above. The best editions to-day are the _Variorum_ and Alden's (_Belles Lettres_). CHAPTER XXVI THE LAST PLAY Eleven.--The first quarto of _The Scornful Ladie_, entered S. R., March 19, 1616, assigns the play to Beaumont and Fletcher, and says that it "was acted with great applause by the Children of Her Maiesties Revels in the Blacke Fryers." The references in Act V, 3, 4, to the Cleve wars show that it could not have been written before March 25, 1609. The sentence, "Marry some cast Cleve captain," is taken by some to indicate a date as early as the spring of that year, when James I "promised to send an English force to aid the Protestant party,"[245] and when, undoubtedly, "cast" captains of the English army were clamouring for foreign service. In that case, the play was acted before January 4, 1610, for by that date the children of the Queen's Revels had ceased playing at Blackfriars. Since the plague regulations closed the theatres between March 9 and December 7, 1609, save for a week in July, these arguments would fix the performance in the Christmas month, December 7 to January 4, 1610. To this supposition a reference in Act I, 2 to binding the Apocrypha by itself, lends plausibility, if, as Fleay thinks, the sentence points to the discussion during 1609-1610 concerning the inclusion of the Apocrypha in the Douay version of the Bible and its exclusion from the authorized version--both in progress at the time, and both completed in 1610.[246] But the Apocrypha controversy was continued long after 1610.