Excerpt from The Dramatic Works of Beaumont and Fletcher, Vol. 2 of 10: Containing, Custom of the Country; Elder Brother; Spanish Curate; Wit Without Money; Beggars' Bush And it is likewife mentioned in a comedy of more recent date, called the Rump, or Mirrour of the Times (by John Tatham, printed in 166c). A Frenchman is introduced at the bonfires made for the burning of the Rumps and. Catching hold of Pnfcrlla, Mrs. Lam bert's waiting woman, Will oblige her to dance, and orders the muhe to play Fortune my foe.' Tbe'obald. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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Excerpt from The Dramatic Works of Beaumont and Fletcher, Vol. 1 of 10 The Prologue and Epilogue Writers may perhaps be more de pended upon, but they don't go quite through with their work fm' wither the quarto copies, nor the thirty-fear Play: in the 1647 edition. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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This is the second volume in a ten-volume series of the critical old-spelling texts of the plays in the Beaumont and Fletcher canon, in which the texts are established on modern bibliographical principles. Each play is preceded by detailed notes on the text of the play, and is followed by textual notes, lists of variants, emendations of accidentals, and an historical collation. A general note of the principles on which the text of this edition was established is contained in Volume I.