Sometimes the editor goes astray and assigns the wrong name to an author; in this work there are 130 such attributions. This important book has been splendidly edited in recent years by Mr. Charles Crawford, who must have spent laborious hours in tracing the different extracts and allotting them to their rightful owners. Every lover of Elizabethan poetry should possess this book, which can be purchased for quite a moderate sum. I should mention that in a dedication to Sir Thomas Mounson the writer signs himself “R. A.” Farmer, the Shakesperean scholar of the eighteenth century, saw a copy with the name Robert Allot printed at length, and ever since, this author has always been considered the editor of this Anthology.
PLAY.
I will play three myself (three characters).
V, 1, 150.
Our wrong doth not end like an old play;
Jack hath not Jill.
V, 2, 884.
A twelvemonth and a day, and then ’twill end,
That’s too long for a play.
V, 2, 883.