[4:1] The Quartos contain no list of Dramatis Personæ. One is however prefixed to D'Urfey's version (1691), with the names of the performers added. C. W. Dilke prefixed a somewhat imperfect one to his edition in vol. iii of Old English Plays (1814). W. L. Phelps, who did not know of Dilke's list, supplied a more correct one in his edition in the Mermaid Series (1895). The subjoined list adds some fresh details, especially concerning the subordinate characters.
[4:2] Many episodes in Bussy D'Ambois's career, which took place in the Province of Anjou, are transferred in the play to Paris.
Bussy D'Ambois
A
Tragedie
Actus primi Scena prima.
[A glade, near the Court.]
Enter Bussy D'Ambois poore.
[Bussy.] Fortune, not Reason, rules the state of things,