BEGGARS BUSH

(A) The First Folio, 1647.

(B) The | Beggars | Bush. | Written by | Francis Beaumont, and

John Fletcher, Gentlemen. | [wood-cut] London, | Printed for Humphrey

Robinson, and Anne Mosley, | at the three Pigeons, and at the Princes

Arms | in Saint Pauls Church-yard, 1661.

Another issue of the above, dated 1661, has a fresh title-page and bears

the following notice:--'You may speedily expect those other Playes,

which | Kirkman, and his Hawkers have deceived the | buyers withall,

selling them at treble the value, that | this and the rest will be sold

for, which are the | onely Originall and corrected copies, as they |

were first purchased by us at no mean | rate, and since printed by us.'

B prints the Prologue and Epilogue to _The Captaine_ as though they

belonged to _Beggars Bush_, apparently treating the last page of

_The Captain_ in A as though it were the first page of _Beggars

Bush_.

(C) The Second Folio.

p. 208.

A _omits_] A Comedy ... The Scene Flanders.

ll. 2-4. B] Dramatis Personae. _These are as follows:_

Dramatis Personae.

_Goswin_ a young Merchant of _Bruges_, viz. _Florez_ the right Earl

of _Flanders_

_Woolfort_, Usurper of the Earldome,

_Clause_ King of Beggars, _viz. Gerrard_ Father to _Florez_,

_Hubert_ disguised like a Huntsman, A Lord of Flanders

_Hemskirk_, A Favourite of the Usurper.

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