Part 1 — TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES.

The six volume Dramatic Works of Thomas Heywood, published by J. Pearson in 1874, was consulted for many of the corrections listed below.

# is used in the text-only edition of this ebook to indicate bolded text.

Alterations to the text:

Omit drop caps and other decorations.

Speaker names: expand, make uniform, and place on line separate from dialogue.

Minor formatting changes to some stage directions.

Relabel footnote markers, collect footnotes at the end of the text, and add an entry to the TOC.

Add The Red Bull Theatre to TOC.

[Introduction]

Change (Such words as “trifulk,” ... “tenébrous,”) to trifurk and tenebrous, respectfully.

[A Woman Killed with Kindness]

(a2s1) “and therefore grateful. Pr’ythee, Nan,” to Prythee.

(a2s3) “Whay say’st thou, metal?” to What.

(a3s2) “T’was but a thankless office” to ’Twas.

(a4s3) “As you love, me sir,” relocate first comma after me.

(a4s3) “Come, Nan, I pr’ythee let us sup within.” to prythee.

[The Fair Maid of the West]

(a1s3) “Enter Spencer, Captain Goolack” to Goodlack.

(a5s1) “I will have no commèrce with Mullisheg,” to commerce.

[The English Traveller]

(a2s1) “W ee ntreat you,” to We entreat.

(a2s2) “Why dos’t not thou fly too?” to dost.

(a3s1) “And is my present joy, if their aspéct” to aspect.

(a4s3) “On two unmatched for sordid villany” to villainy.

[The Wise Woman of Hogsdon]

(a3s1) “make short work, and h’ath dispatched by this” to hath.

(a4s2) “Well, I hear thee,” change second comma to a period.

[The Rape of Lucrece]

(a3s1) “The host is now/Upon their march....” change the speaker from Lucretius to Tarquin. (Lucretius never entered this scene).

(a3s5) “Terry, derry, &c.” (3rd to last line in song) delete the first comma.

(a5s1) “and guerdon base trangression.” to transgression.

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