Wit Without Money eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 80 pages of information about Wit Without Money.

Wit Without Money eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 80 pages of information about Wit Without Money.

(A) The First Folio, 1647.

(B) The | Beggars | Bush. | Written by | Francis Beaumont, and
John Fletcher, Gentlemen. | [wood-cut] London, | Printed for Humphrey
Robinson, and Anne Mosley, | at the three Pigeons, and at the Princes
Arms | in Saint Pauls Church-yard, 1661.

Another issue of the above, dated 1661, has a fresh title-page and bears the following notice:—­’You may speedily expect those other Playes, which | Kirkman, and his Hawkers have deceived the | buyers withall, selling them at treble the value, that | this and the rest will be sold for, which are the | onely Originall and corrected copies, as they | were first purchased by us at no mean | rate, and since printed by us.’

B prints the Prologue and Epilogue to The Captaine as though they belonged to Beggars Bush, apparently treating the last page of The Captain in A as though it were the first page of Beggars Bush.

(C) The Second Folio.

p. 208. 
  A omits] A Comedy ...  The Scene Flanders.
  ll. 2-4.  B] Dramatis Personae. These are as follows:

Dramatis Personae.

Goswin a young Merchant of Bruges, viz. Florez the right Earl of Flanders

Woolfort, Usurper of the Earldome,

Clause King of Beggars, viz.  Gerrard Father to Florez,

Hubert disguised like a Huntsman, A Lord of Flanders

Hemskirk, A Favourite of the Usurper.

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