sc. I.
7: _Ibid._, act iv. sc. 3.
8: _The Pardoner and the Friar_: 1533.
9: Collier's _Drama_, i. 104.
10: _The Political Use of the Stage in Shakspere's Time_.
New Shakspere Society: 1874, ii. p. 371.
Henry Stalbrydge, _Epistle Exhortatory_, &c.: 1544.
11: This threat was uttered against Chapman, Ben Jonson, and Marston
on account of _Eastward Hoe_.
12: Von Raumer, ii. p. 219.
13: Marston's _Malcontent_: Dedication.
14: Act i. sc. I.
15: It is very characteristic that, in this serious piece also, low
humour was still largely employed. In printing--the publisher
remarks--the passages in question were left out, as derogatory 'to
so honourable and stately a history.'
16: _The Politics of Shakspere's Historical Plays_. New
Shakspere Society, ii. 1874.
17: _Antonius and Cleopatra_, act i. sc. 4.
18: We mean the usually received text, seeing that the folio edition
of 1623 contains some passages which are wanting in the quarto
edition, and _vice versa_.
19: Montaigne's _Essays_, which were published in folio, may have
had the same price as Shakspere's folio of 1623. The latter was only
re-issued in 1632 and 1664, whilst the former came out in new
editions in 1613 and 1632.
20: 'Icy un amas de fleur estrangieres, n'y ayant fourny du mien
que le filet a les lier' (iii. 12).
21: _Winter's Tale_, act iv.
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