In Half-Crown Monthly Volumes uniform with the present Work. THE MERMAID SERIES. THE BEST PLAYS OF THE OLD DRAMATISTS. The following comprise the earlier Volumes of the series :— MARLOWE. Edited by HAVELOCK ELLIS. Introduction by J. A. SYMONDS. MASSINGER. Edited by ARTHUR SYMONS. With a General MIDDLETON. With an Introduction by A. C. SWINBURne. BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER (2 vols.). Edited by J. ST. LOE STRACHEY. CONGREVE. Edited by ALEXANDER C. EWALD. DEKKER. Edited by ERNEST RHYS. NERO AND OTHER PLAYS. Edited by H. P. HORNE, etc. WEBSTER & CYRIL TOURNEUR. Edited by J. A. SYMONDS. SHIRLEY. Edited by EDMUND Gosse. BEN JONSON (2 vols.). Edited by C. H. HERFORD. OTWAY. Edited by the Hon. RODEN NOel. THOMAS HEYWOOD. Edited by J. A. SYMONDS. FORD. Edited by HAVELOCK ELLIS. ARDEN OF FEVERSHAM, and other Plays attributed to SHAKESPEARE. Edited by ARTHUR SYMONS. "I lie and dream of your full Mermaid wine."-Beaumont. UNEXPURGATED EDITION. LONDON: VIZETELLY & CO., 42, CATHERINE ST., STRAND. 1887. D33 R 013 235 182 "What things have we seen Done at the Mermaid! heard words that have been So nimble, and so full of subtle flame, As if that every one from whence they came Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest, And had reso.ved to live a fool the rest Master Francis Beaumont to Ben Jonson. "Souls of Poets dead and gone, What Elysium have ye known, Happy field or mossy cavern, Choicer than the Mermaid Tavern?" Keats. LONDON: BRADBURY, AGNEW, & Co., PRINTERS, WHITEFRIARS. |