Thomas Dekker / Edited, with an introduction and notes by Ernest Rhys. Unexpurgated Edition

by Thomas Dekker

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THE MERMAID SERIES.

Edited by Havelock Ellis.

The Best Plays of the Old Dramatists.

Thomas Dekker.

In Half-Crown Monthly Volumes uniform with the present Work.

THE MERMAID SERIES.

The Best Plays of the Old Dramatists.

The following comprise the earlier Volumes of the series:—

MARLOWE. Edited by Havelock Ellis. With a General Introduction by J. A. Symonds.

MASSINGER. Edited by Arthur Symons.

MIDDLETON. With an Introduction by A. C. Swinburne.

BEAUMONT and FLETCHER (2 vols.). Edited by J. St. Loe Strachey.

CONGREVE. Edited by Alexander C. Ewald.

DEKKER. Edited by Ernest Rhys.

NERO and other plays. Edited by H. P. Horne, etc.

WEBSTER & CYRIL TOURNEUR. Edited by J. A. Symonds.

SHIRLEY. Edited by Edmund Gosse.

BEN JONSON (2 vols.). Edited by C. H. Herford.

OTWAY. Edited by the Hon. Roden Noel.

THOMAS HEYWOOD. Edited by J. A. Symonds.

FORD. Edited by Havelock Ellis.

ARDEN OF FEVERSHAM, and other Plays attributed to Shakespeare. Edited by Arthur Symons.

THE FORTUNE PLAYHOUSE.
Golden Lane, Erected 1622.
From a View Taken in 1811.

The Best Plays of the Old Dramatists.
THOMAS DEKKER

EDITED, WITH AN INTRODUCTION AND NOTES,
By Ernest Rhys.

“I lie and dream of your full Mermaid wine.”—Beaumont.

UNEXPURGATED EDITION.

LONDON:
VIZETELLY & CO., 42, CATHERINE ST., STRAND.
1887.

“What things have we seen
Done at the Mermaid! heard words that have been
So nimble, and so full of subtle flame,
As if that every one from whence they came
Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest,
And had resolved to live a fool the rest
Of his dull life.”

Master Francis Beaumont to Ben Jonson.

“Souls of Poets dead and gone,
What Elysium have ye known,
Happy field or mossy cavern,
Choicer than the Mermaid Tavern?”

Keats.

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