(%F%) The | Maids Tragedy, | as it hath been divers times Acted at the Black-| Friers, by the Kings Majesties Servants: | written by Francis Beaumont and | John Fletcher, Gentlemen. | The sixth Impression, Revised and Corrected exactly by the Original. | London Printed for William Leake, at the Crown in Fleet-street, be | tween the two Temple Gates. 1650.
(%G%) The Maids Tragedy, | as it hath been divers times | Acted | at the Black-Friers, | by the | Kings Majesties Servants. | Written by Francis Beaumont, | and John Fletcher, Gentlemen. | The sixth Impression, Revised and Corrected exactly | by the Original. | London, | Printed in the Year 1661.
In the following notes each of these quartos is referred to by the capital letter prefixed to it in the above list. A—F contain a wood-cut representing Amintor stabbing Aspatia.
p. I, l. 3. A—G] Speakers. l. 6. A and B omit] a Noble
Gentleman.
C after the list of Speakers adds the following verses, repeated
with variations of spelling in D—G]
The Stationers Censure.
Good Wine requires no Bush, they say,
And I, No Prologue such a Play:
The Makers therefore did forbeare
To have that Grace prefixed here.
But cease here (Censure) least the Buyer
Hold thee in this a vaine Supplyer.
My office is to set it forth
When Fame applauds it's reall worth.
l.26. A possibly correctly gives this speech to Lysippus. l.27. A]
You are brother. l. 30. B, C and D omit] thou. ll. 31 and
32. A and B] masks.
l. 33. A omits] their King. l. 34. A] groome. l. 38. A omits]
to Rhodes.
l. 39. A] blowes abroad bringst us our peace at home.
p. 2, l. 1. A omits] too. l. 2. A] welcome. A—E] above his or. l. 3. A] world. l. 16. A] straight. l. 18. A] most true. l. 19. A] solemnities. l. 22. A] Yes, and have given cause to those, that here. l. 29. A omits] with armes. l. 33. A omits] my friend. l. 34. A omits] and temperate.
p. 3, l. 3. A] weighes. l. 5. A] Enter Aspatia passing with attendance. ll. 14 and 15. Printed as one line in G and the Folio. The Exit Aspatia has been printed in the text at the end of Aspatia's speech, as in A—F.
l. 16. A] You are mistaken sir, she is not married. A full-stop has been substituted for a comma at the end of the line here, and elsewhere in similar cases. l. 21. G omits] he. l. 25. A] has. l. 27. B] about. l. 28. G omits] the fair. l. 37. A] 'a should not thinke. l. 38. A] Could I but call it backe. l. 39. A] such base revenges. l. 40. A omits] holds he still his greatness with the King.