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Epilogue.
THE
Bloody Brother;
OR,
ROLLO.
TRAGEDY.
Persons Represented in the Play.
But what are these?
Is not the same man bound still to protect us? Are we not his?
Three merry Boys, and three merry Boys, and three merry Boys are we, As ever did sing in a hempen string under the Gallow-tree.
Three merry Boys, &c.
Three merry Boys, &c.
And methinks I could form him.
serve your freedom still.
None of the above add anything to the sum of variants, being merely the occurrence of trivial differences already recorded in certain Quartos and found to occur in others upon making a collation of a fresh series of Quartos for the purpose of the volumes of notes. They are given here solely to make the record as complete as may be, but it should be stated that some of them are accounted for by the existence of Quartos made up of corrected and uncorrected sheets, i.e. it often happens that not all the copies of a Quarto bearing the same date possess an identical series of sheets.
The following are additions to the sum of the variants already recorded, noted in the collation above referred to.
WIT WITHOUT MONEY.
THE FAITHFUL SHEPHERDESS.
RULE A WIFE, AND HAVE A WIFE.
The following addenda were printed on a slip and affixed as indicated above. They are repeated here in case the slip should become detached.
THE TRAGEDY OF VALENTINIAN.
The following variants are in A unless where otherwise stated.
MONSIEUR THOMAS.
The title-page of the Quarto of 1639 runs as follows:
Monsieur | Thomas. A Comedy. | Acted at the Private House in | Blacke Fryers. | The Author, | John Fletcher, | Gent. | London, | Printed by Thomas Harper, for John Waterson, and are | to be sold at his shop in Pauls Church-yard,| at the signe of the Crowne: | 1639.
The title-page is followed in the Quarto by these verses and Richard Brome's letter .
In prayse of the Authour, and his following Poeme.
Rich. Brome.
As neither the Folio nor the Quarto give the dramatis personae, I print a list of the characters here.
DRAMATIS PERSONAE. MONSIEUR THOMAS.
Valentine. Francesco, his son. Sebastian. Thomas, his son. Hylas. Sam. Michael. Launcelot, servant of Thomas. Fiddler. Three Physicians. Apothecary, Barber, Sailors, Officers, Servants. Alice, sister of Valentine. Mary, their niece. Cellide. Dorothea, daughter of Sebastian. Abbess of St Katherine's, aunt of Thomas and Dorothea. Nuns. Madge, Kate and Maids.
The variants below are those of A unless otherwise noted.
THE CHANCES.
The variants below are those of A unless where otherwise stated.
THE BLOODY BROTHER.
Here again copies dated the same year differ in their readings. Three copies of the 1639 Quarto have been collated to supply the readings given below, and three copies also of the 1640 Quarto.
As the verse arrangements differ considerably in A and B I have given those which are of value in B.
The Names of the Actors:
'The drinking Song, to the second Act' , is given in A on the verso of the page containing the Dramatis Personae.
... of fraile thoughts All friends, etc.
As e're did sing three parts in a string, All under the triple tree.
Farewell ... not Be printed ... head.
THE WILD-GOOSE CHASE.
This comedy is referred to in the Stationer's address 'to the Readers' in the First Folio as having 'beene long lost.' It was published separately in folio in 1652 and is often bound up with copies of the Folios. The title-page of the 1652 edition runs as follows:
To the Honour'd, Few, Lovers of
RICHARD LOVELACE.
Mr. FLETCHERS
excellent Play,
THE
upon his excellent Play, The
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