THERIOMASTIX.
[607] The verb injury is frequently found.
[608] Ed. 1598 “me.”
ENTERTAINMENT
OF
ALICE, DOWAGER-COUNTESS OF
DERBY.
The noble Lorde & Lady of Huntingdons Entertainement of theire right Noble Mother Alice: Countesse Dowager of Darby the first night of her honors arrivall att the house of Ashby.
The MS. of this Entertainment is preserved at Bridgewater House. Extracts were printed in Halliwell’s Marston, vol. iii.; but the Entertainment was first printed in full by Dr. Grosart. I have not seen the MS.: it seemed unnecessary to go over the ground again, for Dr. Grosart’s transcript was evidently made with great care.[609] “The MS.,” he observes, “fills fifteen leaves. The first leaf, which contains the address to the dowager-duchess of Derby, and leaves fourteen and fifteen, which contain the ‘Epilogue’ (never before printed), are in Marston’s own handwriting. The rest of the MS. is in two hands.... Throughout the MS. there are several corrections made in a darker ink, and apparently by Marston himself. On leaf two is a small blank space and the following words by Marston: ‘as this lame figure demonstrates’—a sketch being evidently intended. But, spite of the author’s supervision, various mistakes of the scribe are left.”
[609] At the close of his Introduction to Hall’s Satires, Dr. Grosart corrects a few errors that had crept into his transcript of Marston’s Entertainment. These corrections I have silently adopted.
TO THE
RIGHT NOBLE LADY ALICE,
Countess-Dowager of Derby.
Madam,