THE MAIDS TRAGEDY PHILASTER A KING, AND NO KING THE SCORNFUL LADY THE CUSTOM OF THE COUNTRY THE TEXT EDITED BY ARNOLD GLOVER, M.A. OF TRINITY COLLEGE AND THE INNER TEMPLE CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS WAREHOUSE, C. F. CLAY, MANAGER. London: FETTER LANE, E.C. Glasgow: 50, WELLINGTON STREET. Leipzig: F. A. BROCKHAUS. New York: THE MACMILLAN COMPANY. 268964 [All Rights reserved.] TH NOTE. HE first collected edition of the plays of Beaumont and Fletcher was published in 1647 in folio (12 ins. × 8 ins. is the measurement of the copy used for the purpose of collation). The title-page runs thus: Comedies and | Tragedies | written by Francis Beaumont) And Gentlemen. Never printed before, | And now published by the Authours Originall Copies. | Si quid habent veri Vatum præsagia, vivam. London, Printed for Humphrey Robinson, at the three Pidgeons, and for | Humphrey Moseley at the Princes Armes in St Pauls. This collection, which is referred to as the First Folio throughout the present edition, contained all the authors' previously unpublished plays (34) except The Wild-Goose Chase, which, at the date of the Folio, was supposed to be lost. The dedicatory epistles, commendatory poems and Catalogue of Plays, prefixed to the First Folio, are reprinted in the preliminary pages at the end of this Note (pp. ix-lvii). |