I doubt it not, right worshipful, but well you do conceive
The matter that is ended now, and thus I take my leave:
Beseeching God, as duty is, our gracious Queen to save
The nobles and the commons eke, with prosperous life, I crave!
FINIS.
[150] This list is inserted in the centre of the title page of the old copy. [The title runs as follows: “A new Tragicall Comedie of Apius and Virginia. Wherein is liuely expressed a rare example of the vertue of Chastitie by Virginias Constancy in wishing rather to be slaine at her owne Fathers handes, then to be dishonored of the wicked Iudge Apius. By R. B. The players’ names (as above). Imprinted at London by William How for Richard Ihones. 1575.”]
[151] It was well to reprint this singular production, if only to rescue it from the ravages of time. The old copy has received damage, and is fast decaying: the beginnings of the nine following lines have crumbled away, but it has not been difficult to restore the words, or parts of words lost.
[152] [These Latin lines are full of false grammar, sense, and quantities, of which some are beyond conjecture.]
[153] [Old copy has like.]
[154] [Old copy, infected.]