(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.