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A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 12

Act 5 — THE LOST LADY.

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EDITION.

The Lost Lady. A Tragy Comedy. Imprinted at London by Jo. Okes, for John Colby, and are to be sold at his Shop, at the Signe of the Holy Lambe on Ludgate-hill. 1639. Folio.

[Sir William Barclay or Berkley was probably related to Sir Richard Barclay, author of "A Discourse of the Felicity of Man," first printed in 1598. He wrote, besides the "Lost Lady," a "Description of Virginia." An account of him will be found in Bliss's edition of Wood's "Athenæ," iii. 1111-12.

"The Lost Lady" was reprinted by Dodsley in 1744, but excluded from the second and third editions of the collection.]

DRAMATIS PERSONÆ.[350]

Men.

Lysicles.

Eugenio.

Agenor.

Cleon.

Ergasto.

Phormio.

Pindarus.

Physician.

Women.

Milesia.

Hermione.

Irene.

Phillida.

Acanthe.

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