A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 11

TO ANY WOMAN THAT HATH BEEN NO WEATHERCOCK.

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A SELECT COLLECTION OF OLD ENGLISH PLAYS (11 of 15).EDITION.[MR COLLIER'S PREFACE.]TO ANY WOMAN THAT HATH BEEN NO WEATHERCOCK.TO THE READER.TO HIS LOVED SON,[9] NAT. FIELD, AND HIS WEATHERCOCK WOMAN.DRAMATIS PERSONÆ

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EDITIONS.INTRODUCTION.DRAMATIS PERSONÆ.[71]

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GREEN'S TU QUOQUE;EDITIONS.INTRODUCTION.TO THE READER UPON THE DEATH OF THOMAS GREEN.DRAMATIS PERSONÆ.THE CITY GALLANT.THE CITY GALLANT. (continued 2)EDITIONS.[REEDS PREFACE.]DRAMATIS PERSONÆ.THE PROLOGUE.ALBUMAZAR.[227]

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EPILOGUE EDITION.INTRODUCTION.THE ACTORS' NAMES.PROLOGUE THE HOG HATH LOST HIS PEARL. ACTUS PRIMI, SCENA PRIMA.ACTUS SECUNDUS.ACTUS TERTIUS.ACTUS QUARTUS.ACTUS QUINTUS.EPILOGUE EDITION.INTRODUCTION TO THE FORMER EDITION.THE NAMES OF THE ACTORS.TO MY HONOURED FRIEND MASTER THOMAS MAY,PROLOGUS.

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THE EPILOGUE.

I did determine not to have dedicated my play to anybody, because forty shillings I care not for![7] and above few or none will bestow on these matters, especially falling from so fameless a pen as mine is yet. And now I look up, and find to whom my dedication is, I fear I am as good as my determination: notwithstanding, I leave a liberty to any lady or woman, that dares say she hath been no weathercock, to assume the title of patroness to this my book. If she have been constant, and be so, all I will expect from her for my pains is that she will continue so but till my next play be printed, wherein she shall see what amends I have made to her and all the sex,[8] and so I end my epistle without a Latin sentence.

N. F.

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Note 1 · Malone, in his "History of the Stage," quotes this passage to show that such was, in Field's day, the ordinary price of the dedication of a Note 2 · Referring to his "Amends for Ladies," first printed in 1618, and afterwards in 1639.