Note return to page 1 &hand1; The particular copies of nearly all the Plays in this volume that furnish'd Extracts, are now in the Musæum, by gift of Mr. Garrick: and all it's other Pieces as nearly, together with those “collated” —the Plays of Shakespeare, are in the library of Trinity Colledge in Cambridge; lodg'd there by their collector, this writer, in June 79: Both Collections (his, and his friend's) are upon a new-devis'd plan, in respect of binding, that a little merits the notice of all possessors of Miscellanies.

Note return to page 2 [31] 31Their

Note return to page 3 [47] 47Say

Note return to page 4 [36] 36groweth

Note return to page 5 [26] 26lov'st

Note return to page 6 [45] 45Where

Note return to page 7 [31] 31As in

Note return to page 8 [38] 38As of

Note return to page 9 [42] 42my Steed

Note return to page 10 [21] 21fought

Note return to page 11 [24] 24Layd

Note return to page 12 [43] 43delate

Note return to page 13 (* f. nation.)

Note return to page 14 1griefes

Note return to page 15 2Amidst

Note return to page 16 3flame

Note return to page 17 4Nymphs

Note return to page 18 5shepheards

Note return to page 19 1lesse

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Note return to page 21 2traytors

Note return to page 22 3faire

Note return to page 23 4thou

Note return to page 24 1weaves

Note return to page 25 2reaven

Note return to page 26 3wilt

Note return to page 27 *Swooping

Note return to page 28 *named

Note return to page 29 [1] 1. “The second edition.”

Note return to page 30 [2] 2. printed at Oxford.

Note return to page 31 [3] 3. printed, with other poems, in a volume, intitl'd “The Countess of Pembroke's Ivy church.”

Note return to page 32 [4] 4. printed at Oxford.

Note return to page 33 [5] 5. printed by John Rastell. (Ames. p. 148.)

Note return to page 34 [6] 6. “acted at Ramsbury” 26. of Nov. 1590.”

Note return to page 35 [7] 7. “part of an entertainment presented to the countess of Derby.”

Note return to page 36 [8] 8. 1599. 4o. b. l. (Langbaine.)

Note return to page 37 [9] 9. a dialogue; at the end of it is a smaller piece of the same kind, call'd “The conceited Pedler.”

Note return to page 38 [1] 1. “The second edition.”

Note return to page 39 [2] 2. a dramatic satire.

Note return to page 40 [3] 3. printed at Oxford; & titl'd “Rollo Duke of Normandy.”

Note return to page 41 [4] 4. “titl'd “The discontented Colonel.”

Note return to page 42 [1] 1. A dialogue.

Note return to page 43 [2] 2. “the second edition.”

Note return to page 44 [3] 3. both editions printed at Oxford.

Note return to page 45 [4] 4. in a volume, intitl'd “The History of Philosophy.”

Note return to page 46 [5] 5. “presented Febr. 18th. 1633.” In a volume, intitl'd “Poems with a Maske, by Thomas Carew &c.” Edit. 1651. “the third edition.”

Note return to page 47 [6] 6. printed at Kilkenny.

Note return to page 48 [1] 1. A dialogue.

Note return to page 49 [7] 7. political satires.

Note return to page 50 [8] 8. “presented at a private entertainment.”

Note return to page 51 [9] 9. “acted in the year 1632.”

Note return to page 52 [10] 10. printed at the Hague.

Note return to page 53 [11] 11. “the second edition.”

Note return to page 54 [12] 12. call'd in this edition “The Guardian.”

Note return to page 55 [1] 1. Titl'd at top, “The tragicall commedie of &c.”

Note return to page 56 [2] 2. printed at Edinburgh.

Note return to page 57 [1] 1. In a catalogue of plays, at the end of “The careless Shepherdess,” this play is ascrib'd to Shakespeare.

Note return to page 58 [2] 2. “the fourth impression.”

Note return to page 59 [3] 3. printed at the Hague.

Note return to page 60 [4] 4. at the end of the preceding,

Note return to page 61 [5] 5. printed at Edinburgh.

Note return to page 62 [6] 6. printed at Oxford.

Note return to page 63 [7] 7. “acted in the yeare 1598.”

Note return to page 64 [1] 1. Shakespeare. Upon this single evidence,—that it is in a volume (now in Mr. Garrick's collection) that did belong to king Charles the first, which is titl'd upon the back “Shakespear Vol. I.” The plays in this volume are— “The Puritan, Sir John Oldcastle, Thomas L. Cromwel, Merry Devil of Edmonton, London Prodigal, Mucedorus, Fair Em, Love's Labour's lost.”

Note return to page 65 [2] 2. “the fifth edition.”

Note return to page 66 [3] 3. printed at Oxford.

Note return to page 67 [4] 4. “acted in 1636.”

Note return to page 68 [1] 1. “Ghedruckt in Lydden.” final signature, of this edition. I. 4.b of the other, K. 4.b

Note return to page 69 [2] 2. “played on on the stage near a hundred years ago.” Ames (p. 318.) mentions an edition of this play in 1575. 4o. printer Thomas Colwell.

Note return to page 70 [3] 3. “written in the year 1640.”

Note return to page 71 [4] 4. “shewed on stage Jan. 18th. 1561.”

Note return to page 72 [1] 1. “Written in the year 1655.”

Note return to page 73 [2] 2. “acted in 1620. The second impression.”

Note return to page 74 [3] 3. a dramatic satire.

Note return to page 75 [4] 4. “written in 1635.”

Note return to page 76 [5] 5. at the end is an entertainment, written by the same author, call'd “The Contention of Ajax and Ulysses.”

Note return to page 77 [6] 6. an addition, so intitl'd, to the same author's masque of “Pleasure reconcil'd to Virtue.”

Note return to page 78 [1] 1. The printing of this edition is adjudg'd by Ames (p. 257.) to the year 1557: and the preceding interlude is said to be the work of one Henry Nicholas, an enthusiast, who liv'd about the same time.

Note return to page 79 [1] 1. “The third Edition.”

Note return to page 80 [2] 2d. in all these editions, the play is in two parts.

Note return to page 81 [3] 3. the first edition is upon eleven sheets; the other, but upon ten and a quarter: signature, next the title-page, of the first A. 2; of the second, B.

Note return to page 82 [1] 1. At the end of the “Arcadia:” the author dy'd in 1586.

Note return to page 83 [2] 2. printed at Dublin.

Note return to page 84 [3] 3. “written by a person of honour:” and the “Lost Lady” has been attributed to a sir William Berkley.

Note return to page 85 [4] 4. at the end of a collection of this author's poems, call'd “The Fancies Theatre.”

Note return to page 86 [5] 5. both call'd “the second impression:” final signature, of the first, G. 4b; of the other, I. 4.b

Note return to page 87 [6] 6. the type of William Copland: v. “Interlude of Youth,” Robin Hood, and others.

Note return to page 88 [1] 1. Printed by John Rastell. (Ames. p. 148.)

Note return to page 89 [2] 2. “second impression.”

Note return to page 90 [3] 3. “fourth impression.”

Note return to page 91 [4] 4. “augmented by Marston. written by John Webster.”

Note return to page 92 [5] 5. “presented in 1634.”

Note return to page 93 [6] 6. Tragic-comedy at Paris, says the title-page: But it is one of the political satires of that time,and there are two editions of it in this year; final signature of one, D. 2.b; of the other, D. 3.b

Note return to page 94 [7] 7. printed at Oxford.

Note return to page 95 [1] 1. Printed by John Rastell. (Ames. p. 148.)

Note return to page 96 [2] 2. printed by the same Rastell, at the end of his “Abridgment of the Statutes,” 1st. impr. dated 25th. Oct. 11th. of H. 8. (Ms. note upon the cover.)

Note return to page 97 [3] 3. political satires.

Note return to page 98 [4] 4. the type and paper of this shew it to have been printed about the year 1600. John Trundle seems to be a fictitious name: v. “Green's Tu quoque.”

Note return to page 99 [1] 1. By a near deceas'd relation of sir Edward Dymock, says the publisher (Simon Waterson) in his dedication to sir Edward.

Note return to page 100 [2] 2. “the second impression.”

Note return to page 101 [3] 3. both printed at Edinburgh.

Note return to page 102 [4] 4. a medley; the five acts consisting of five several pieces: of which the third and fourth are call'd “The History of sir Francis Drake,” and “The Cruelty of the Spaniards in Peru;” and were both printed seperately, under those titles, in 1659. and 1658. 4o. for Henry Herringman.

Note return to page 103 [5] 5. a satire: call'd too, a first part.

Note return to page 104 [1] 1. A tragi-comedy: publisher, Alexander Goughe.

Note return to page 105 [2] 2. “paraphrased in English; Anno 1654.” At the end is a little piece of the same kind, call'd “Festas de Aranjuez.”

Note return to page 106 [1] 1. The fourth and fifth impressions.

Note return to page 107 [2] 2. “acted Mar. 19th. 1631.”

Note return to page 108 [3] 3. “verye proper to be played in Maye-games.”

Note return to page 109 [4] 4. “acted Aug. 30th. 1636.” both printed at Oxford.

Note return to page 110 [5] 5. printed at Do.

Note return to page 111 [1] 1. A history. “the first part.”

Note return to page 112 [2] 2. “the third edition.”

Note return to page 113 [3] 3. “the fifth edition.”

Note return to page 114 [4] 4. “the first part.”

Note return to page 115 [5] 5. “the second edition.”

Note return to page 116 [6] 6. this has been attributed to Phineas Fletcher, author of the “Purple Island,” and other poems.

Note return to page 117 [7] 7. “the first part.”

Note return to page 118 [8] 8. Langbaine mentions an edition in 1640.

Note return to page 119 [9] 9. Dedication, “Don Diego Puede-ser.” (v. Wood's Athenæ.” edit. 1721. fol. Vol. 2d. p. 28.)

Note return to page 120 [1] 1. Titl'd “Taming of a Shrew.”

Note return to page 121 [2] 2. “printed and acted about a hundred years ago. The second impression.”

Note return to page 122 [3] 3. in a volume, intitl'd “Poems &c. by James Shirley.”

Note return to page 123 [4] 4. “as it was acted by the King's Majesty's servants at the Globe.” Pope.

Note return to page 124 1. A history.

Note return to page 125 2. a tragedy.

Note return to page 126 1. “The second edition.”

Note return to page 127 2. “the third edition.

Note return to page 128 [1] 1. “Presented on Twelfth-night 1639.”

Note return to page 129 [2] 2. “presented in 1566.”

Note return to page 130 [3] 3. “printed with the Latin, 4o. Cambridge 1598.” (Langbaine)

Note return to page 131 [4] 4. said in catalogues, to have been printed in 1625, and again in 1629.

Note return to page 132 [5] 5. with addition of the “Alexandrean Tragedy,” and “Julius Cæsar.

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