Act 1 — William Andrews Clark Memorial Library: University of California The Augustan Reprint Society
Reading edition
General Editors
H. Richard Archer R. C. Boys
William Andrews Clark Memorial Library University of Michigan
E. N. Hooker John Loftis
University of California, Los Angeles University of California, Los Angeles
The Society exists to make available inexpensive reprints (usually facsimile reproductions) of rare seventeenth and eighteenth century works. The editorial policy of the Society continues unchanged. As in the past, the editors welcome suggestions concerning publications. All income of the Society is devoted to defraying cost of publication and mailing.
All correspondence concerning subscriptions in the United States and Canada should be addressed to the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, 2205 West Adams Boulevard, Los Angeles 18, California. Correspondence concerning editorial matters may be addressed to any of the general editors. The membership fee is $3.00 a year for subscribers in the United States and Canada and 15/- for subscribers in Great Britain and Europe. British and European subscribers should address B.H. Blackwell, Broad Street, Oxford, England.
Publications for the sixth year [1951-1952] (At least six items, most of them from the following list, will be reprinted.)
Thomas Gray: An Elegy Writt in a Country Church Yard (1751). Introduction by George Sherburn.
James Boswell, Andrew Erskine, and George Dempster: Critical Strictures on the New Tragedy of Elvira (1763). Introduction by Frederick A. Pottle.
An Essay on the New Species of Writing Founded by Mr. Fielding (1751). Introduction by James A. Work.
Henry Gally: A Critical Essay on Characteristic Writing (1725). Introduction by Alexander Chorney.
[John Phillips]: Satyr Against Hypocrits (1655). Introduction by Leon Howard.
Prefaces to Fiction. Selected and with an Introduction by Benjamin Boyce.
Thomas Tyers: A Biographical Sketch of Dr. Samuel Johnson ([1785]). Introduction by Gerald Dennis Meyer.
Publications for the first five years (with the exception of NOS. 1-4, which are out of print) are available at the rate of $3.00 a year. Prices for individual numbers may be obtained by writing to the Society.
THE AUGUSTAN REPRINT SOCIETY WILLIAM ANDREWS CLARK MEMORIAL LIBRARY 2205 West Adams Boulevard, Los Angeles 18, California Make check or money order payable to The Regents of the University of California.
Transcriber’s Notes & Errata
Spellings of names, abbreviations and a number of other words, punctuation including the use of apostrophes, use of accents, hyphenation and italicisation are very inconsistent in the text. They have been transcribed as in the text, except for very obvious typographical errors.
Embedded stage directions in the text have been left in situ, enclosed in square brackets.
End-of-line stage directions in the text have been placed on their own lines.
The following words occur in both hyphenated and unhyphenated forms in the text. The number of instances of each word are given in parentheses.
HyphenatedUnhyphenated
WordInstancesWordInstances
Cheap-side1Cheapside2
Hoo-ra2Hoora3
me-thinks2methinks4
Merry-man2Merryman10
who-ever1whoever1
The following obvious typographical errors have been corrected.
PageErrorCorrection
1is isis
2wihinwithin
5thethee
5the thethe
6NamesName
6Speaker's name omitted.Fri.
19SalvageSavage